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...The legend is that Michael de la Pole, the 3rd Earl of Suffolk who was killed at the battle of Agincourt in 1415, lies buried in a silver coffin somewhere in the priory’s grounds....
...Established by Crispin Odey in 1991, the hedge fund was known for hiring “earls and girls”, while some fund managers brought shotguns to the office before heading off on weekend shooting trips....
...Usually, densely planted pots are under-watered, being wet only for the first few inches of their ball of soil....
...It was the seventh Earl of Elgin who procured them. Lucy FisherBeautifully read. Robert ShrimsleyVery good. (Laughter) Stephen BushSorry....
...Earl De La Warr is the “proprietor of the village pub”....
...Exuberantly imagined scenes — Earl Fitzwilliam’s unconventional mistress, a former trapeze artist, gleefully smashes a cricket ball through a looking-glass in his palatial home — comment on the breakdown...
...On her return home, she refused to have a traditional debutante’s ball or to be presented at court, calling the whole thing “nonsense”....
...Baroness Meta Ramsay orders a cup of Earl Grey tea and urges me to try a scone....
...As Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote, “For things to stay the same, everything must change” (see Earl Grey’s triumphant showdown with the British aristocracy and his abolition of the slave trade in the...
...Ten-month-old Tiger watched transfixed as Earl hit golf balls into a net in the garage. Modern athletes start their careers ever younger, but hardly anyone missed more of ordinary life than Tiger....
...Perhaps he was relying on the clause stating: “No Earl or Baron in possession of a soft-play centre may be compelled to close the climbing area, ball pits or the plastic slides, or be ordered to clean it...
...“They really, really take it seriously,” Thomas says of prom, which he, like other headmasters across the country, continues to call a leavers’ ball. “The kids refuse. To them, it’s prom,” he says....
...Indeed, that the Trenchards are at the ball at all raises some eyebrows....
...Tonight in the same room, couples in tailcoats and ball gowns are dancing — although many are stumbling their way through the Regency waltz....
...The Tatler labelled her “squadron leader of Society’s Young Brigade” and she marshalled them from party to pageant to charity ball and back again....
...They gazed out to sea as if longing for the nautical glamour of the transatlantic liner, just as shipping companies were vying to create the most lavish interiors, the sleekest profiles, the classiest balls...
...It must also be noted that Earl Wilson, CH, will have known when making the decisive call that the Australians had used up their stock of challenges....
...“Men like your grandfather — balls of steel,” Hannaford says....
...Instead, the root system remains compact and fibrous, meaning that a 4m tree can be lifted and replanted with a root ball little more than 70cm in diameter....
...As the opera was originally composed, the plot of Verdi’s A Masked Ball was a fictionalised account of the lead-up to the assassination of Gustav III of Sweden — an event that had transfixed Europe in 1792...
...“I was given it by Lady Mariota Napier, the lovely sister of the Earl of Mansfield.”...
...“If I were to look at my crystal ball I would say value is not a cash payment, but maybe they could be given some other licences so that Ophir doesn’t look so bad....
...When Carnarvon moved here on her marriage to the earl nearly 20 years ago, the state rooms were open to the public, but the bedrooms, galleries and hallways were unfurnished....
...Boston who dies similarly — if somewhat less convincingly — at the eponymous masked ball....
...Downton Abbey: Hugh Bonneville plays the Earl of Grantham, defending the aristocracy against social upheaval....
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