Despite somewhat negative views on our Royal family - for which she received prime ministerial admonishment - HM is now a DBE, of course.
Of Irish descent and raised as a Catholic, she also expressed some serious misgivings on that religion's clergy - long before it became commonplace.
Her novel Fludd depicts a fictional northern English parish in the 50s - demonising its two errant priests. And the Bishop of Plymouth noted a non-catholic thread in Wolf Hall.