Possible Clues:

• Kate's 'The Lion in Winter' role
• . . . lady in the clutches of one lean Oriental
• Mrs Humphry Ward protagonist awarded victory by Mary Braddon
• Name used in Beatles song
• Henry II's wife
• Henry's wife, the queen, slim and round in the middle
• ___ of Aquitaine, Henry II's wife
• Longtime D.C. delegate to Congress ___ Holmes Norton
• Girl, English and thin, followed by men
• First name in a Beatles title