A Christmas Perennial - The King William's College Quiz 2022

[Mike in Cumbria]

16.2
Queen Victoria regularly had winter holidays on the Cote d'Azur and often used the not very convincing aliases of the Duchess of Balmoral or the Duchess of Lancaster.
Being an Empress, she fits the other answers.

Edit: I meant to type Countess, not Duchess

[djct59]

KGarrad: That's 15.3 nailed down 

6.3 is Bendigo, Victoria, formerly known as Sandhurst.

Still not convinced by Buenos Aires for 6.1 - Might it be a reference to "Ben's Zoo" at Dartmoor Wildlife Park (http://www.benjaminmee.com/bens-story) which did have pumas in cages?   

Mike - Queen Victoria might fit but I want to look into this a bit more...

Apparently she also used "Countess of Lancaster" as an alias 

[Mike in Cumbria]

 

Mike - Queen Victoria might fit but I want to look into this a bit more...

Apparently she also used "Countess of Lancaster" as an alias 

Sorry - "Duchess" was a mistype on my part. I meant to say that she used the aliases Countess of Balmoral  and Countess of Lancaster
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8668654/queen-victoria-travels-as-countess-of/

Everybody else in that list is an Emperor or Empress

[djct59]

 8.5 is Christine Watkins (eaten by the shark in Chapter One of Peter Benchley's Jaws near Old Mill Road)

[hepburn]

https://www.rootschat.com/links/01s0a/


 Ben Hughes or Benelux ...I don't know?