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...Sometimes she stayed at Chatsworth, another of the Earl’s properties, and she summered for a while at Buxton spa, in a suite built for her by the Earl....
...“The Earl of Clarendon! What did he do?! Are we going to go rifling through his life, and say oops we didn’t like something he did?”...
...Earl De La Warr is the “proprietor of the village pub”....
...The pile ascended in order of social significance: answers to queries from members of the public at the bottom; then the bank; then the Earl of Snowdon and so on....
...Apart from its many treasures, Wilton appeals to me because of its connection with Rex Whistler, Cecil Beaton and their crowd of bright, creative, unconventional friends....
...leaderships now have an opportunity to push through reforms; as another example she cites Oxford’s Oriel College, finally setting out a process for the removal of its controversial statue of the imperialist Cecil...
...Elizabeth I is said to have kept a Hilliard of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, first favourite of her reign and Hilliard’s earliest patron, under hers....
...The tenor Javier Camarena made for an equally impressive Earl of Leicester....
...When, in 2006, the Marquess of Salisbury, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil and his wife Hannah, took up permanent residence at Hatfield, that great Jacobean trophy house to the north of London, they gave Hurst a loose...
...At the top of one, Glenarm, the 11th Earl of Antrim demanded to be buried upright so he could enjoy the view....
...The apogee of luxury fabrics, cloth of gold, made with real gold thread, was only worn by royalty, though if you were a duke or an earl you might get away with wearing a discreet panel of the stuff....
...The Benns are the closest thing going to the old aristocratic clans – the Pitts, Cecils and Stanleys – that used to dominate politics....
...It was part of a cycle of plays that augmented the reputation of their chief rival, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex....
...By 1956 and CD21, the spiky Cecil Taylor and lush Bill Evans are portents of a divided future....
...The two main competitors in horticultural design at the time were the most powerful men in the land: Elizabeth’s favourite Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and her chief minister William Cecil, Lord Burghley...
...His son, Edward Cecil, secured both the business and the family legacy....
...The first image I encountered was Cecil Beaton’s 1932 photograph of Lord Charles Cavendish’s wedding to Adèle Astaire....
...He found his way by 1610 into the employment of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, as gardener at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire....
...Beverley Hughes is “granite-faced”; the Earl of Halsbury’s proposed list of obscene acts “provides a wonderful dinner party game”; Cecil Parkinson was Thatcher’s “golden boy”....
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