After her husband's death in 2002, she continued to donate money and succeeded him as chairman and president of the Annenberg Foundation.

[3] She and her younger sister were raised in Fremont Place, an upper-class neighborhood of Los Angeles, by her uncle Harry Cohn, the founder of Columbia Pictures.

[3] Leonore and her younger sister, Judith, attended the Page Boarding School for Girls in Pasadena.

[4] After graduating, she married Beldon Katleman, whose family owned real estate and a national parking lot chain; they had a daughter, Diane, but the marriage ended in divorce after a few years.

[3] In 1946, she married Lewis Rosenstiel, the multimillionaire founder of the Schenley liquor distillery, and they had a daughter named Elizabeth;[5] that marriage, too, ended in divorce.

[3] She and Walter Annenberg, then editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, met in 1950 at a party in Florida[3] and the two were married the following year.

[7] While in London, Leonore founded the American Friends of Covent Garden,[4] an organization designed to foster goodwill between the U.S. and Great Britain through musical expression.

[9] Annenberg oversaw a staff of 60 who worked on myriad details, ranging from the choice of the state gifts that will be given to the guest, to the bathrooms the foreign delegation may visit.

[15] Upon being presented the award, she explained why she and her husband donated to causes as philanthropists: Walter and I believe that education is the foundation of a democratic society.

[20] Annenberg, in 2007, was the 165th richest person in the United States, according to Forbes, with a net worth of 2.5 billion dollars.

[21] Annenberg traveled to Washington, D.C., in May 2007 to attend the state dinner for Queen Elizabeth II, hosted by President George W.

[25] At the announcement of her death, statements were issued by former President George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush, as well as former First Lady Nancy Reagan, who called Annenberg "a dear and longtime friend" and praised the Annenbergs' philanthropic work as having "left an indelible print on education in the United States".