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For her services to wildlife and to the arts, in 2004 McKenna was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire. In March 2009 Virginia McKenna's autobiography, The Life in My Years, was published by Oberon Books.
In 1975 she released an album of twelve songs called Two Faces of Love which included two of her own compositions and a sung version of the poem The Love That I Have from the film Carve Her Name with Pride. The record was released on the Gold Star label with two line drawings of McKenna by her sister-in-law Linden Travers. On its reissue on the Rim label in 1979 the album instead had a photographic picture.
Her audiobook work includes The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. and narration of "The Lonely Doll" by Dare Wright.
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