Huge congratulations to our very special Lion Queen on becoming Dame Virginia. Been my heroine for over 40 years. Adore her to the moon and back. ❤️🦁❤️🦁 #virginiamckenna #damevirginiamckenna #newyearhonours #bornfree #bornfree foundation #wildlife #keepeildlifeinthewild #lions

Remembering William Inglis Lindon Travers, better known as the late 🇬🇧 British actor, screenwriter, director & animal rights activist #BillTravers MBE  #BOTD in 1922 in #NewcastleUponTyne , seen here with co-star & wife #VirginiaMcKenna OBE in 'Born Free' (1966) Dir. James Hill

So what shall we watch this weekend? 🎬📽️…..the gang’s all here for
The Smallest Show On Earth (1957) 🎞️
#MargaretRutherford #PeterSellers
#VirginiaMcKenna #BillTravers #LesliePhillips #ClassicFilm

Huge pride of #lions spotted in #London , launching Born Free Foundation's 2022 Year of the Lion. Will Travers & #VirginiaMcKenna explain how lion numbers have plummeted from 200K to 20,000 since the movie #BornFree was filmed! We need apex predators to keep #Africa 's #ecosystems healthy!

There Ain’t Nothing Like A Dame! Three cheers, love and respect for my dear Mum, #VirginiaMcKenna on being made a #Dame in the #NewYearHonours . Read our article here bornfree.org.uk/news/virginia-… ⁦Born Free Foundation⁩ ⁦Born Free USA⁩ ⁦Born Free Foundation Kenya⁩ RT Wx

Happy 90th birthday to British actress & animal welfare activist, Virginia McKenna. She sat beautifully for me as I painted this portrait in 1992. She starred in Born Free in 1966. #VirginiaMcKenna #BornFree #actress #cinema #AnimalWelfare #Art #painting

Class Act🌟 #FF #VirginiaMckenna @WillTravers Born Free Foundation BAFTA @AgathaChristie James Bond Annette Badland Gal Gadot Tiffany & Co. Gyles Brandreth Sir Noël Coward U.K. Actors Support Network @Sidjamesplace Nicky Clark @nanceturner01 EpegaMedia Baba-Jallah Epega @Daverking Líam Rudden 🧢 @if_photographer BFI

Happy Birthday #VirginiaMcKenna - you’re so beautiful inside and out! 💗We are so grateful for the day you were born! 💗Will Travers Born Free Foundation

Happy 90th Birthday to 🇬🇧British stage, film & television actress,
author and wildlife campaigner #VirginiaMcKenna OBE #BOTD in 1931 in #Marylebone #London , seen here with her husband & co-star #BillTravers in the adventure drama “BORN FREE” (1966) dir. James Hill
Will Travers

A message from the wonderful Virginia McKenna of Born Free. Thank you!
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#bornfreefoundation #virginiamckenna #actress #famous #celebrity #music #animalwelfare

Actress #VirginiaMcKenna known for playing Joy Adamson in #BornFree (1966) is made a Dame in King Charles III first New Year Honours.

Co-founder of the Born Free Foundation Dame Virginia has been awarded her damehood for services to wildlife conservation and wild animal welfare.

Wonderful time with the super kind Virginia McKenna Born Free Foundation

#VirginiaMcKenna Jan van der Greef #BornFree #educatetheheart #compassionateconservation
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🎬MOVIE HISTORY: 26 years ago today, April 24, 1998, the movie ‘Sliding Doors’ opened in theaters!

#GwynethPaltrow #JohnHannah #JohnLynch #JeanneTripplehorn #ZaraTurner #DouglasMcFerran #PaulBrightwell #NinaYoung #VirginiaMcKenna #KevinMcNally #ChristopherVilliers #PeterHowitt

British stage & screen actress & animal welfare activist Virginia McKenna celebrated her 91st birthday yesterday. Famed for her 1966 film Born Free, I painted this portrait at her home 30 years ago. #VirginiaMcKenna #film #actress #painting #AnimalWelfare

Happy Birthday #VirginiaMcKenna - you’re so beautiful inside and out! 💗We are so grateful for the day you were born! 💗Will Travers Born Free Foundation

. Will Travers won the Special Recognition Award Animal Star Awards well deserved #asa19 inspired by #BillTravers #GeorgeAdamson #VirginiaMcKenna #JoyAdamson and many more.

£20,500 raised #tonight from the #charityauction of 2 #paintings from #TheWildCollection - 100% donated to Born Free Foundation! #Inspiring speech from #heroine #VirginiaMcKenna 🙏🏼

Show open at La Galleria Pall Mall #PallMall - more #art #raisingmoney to #protectwildlife

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#CriterionSunday - BORN FREE (1966) - Married animal-lovers #VirginiaMcKenna & #BillTravers make it their lives' pursuit to adopt and raise a troop of cute lion cubs away from the dangers of the African wilderness in this heart-warming drama! youtu.be/77C6wRRfzgA

Look out for this charm of a movie being shown on Talking Pictures TV today at 2.20pm. #TheSmallestShowOnEarth 1957. #PeterSellers #MargaretRutherford #BillTravers #VirginiaMcKenna

#SundayNightClassic

Carve Her Name with Pride (1958) by #LewisGilbert

w/ #VirginiaMcKenna #PaulScofield

During World War II, a recently widowed young woman is recruited to work as a spy in France.

'The Imperishable Story of the BRAVEST Woman Who Ever Lived!'

#Biography #War