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...His mother, Elizabeth Birks, is British, but his English is “not perfect”, she points out, noting a detectable Italian accent....
...in Florence — or a grand pedigree such as the former summer residence of the bishops of Padua....
...The source of much of the area’s wealth derived from the redoubtable Bess of Hardwick, otherwise named Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury....
...After returning to England, Harvey rose fast through the London medical hierarchy, aided by marriage to Elizabeth Browne, daughter of Lancelot Browne, physician to the recently crowned King James....
...Returning to the royals, he then tells me that the previous day he had a visit from the Queen’s cousin, Lady Elizabeth Anson, who planned the wedding. “She lost three stones with my diet....
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