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...Sir Henry, infamously, approved of the Nazis and, taken to see a Potemkinised concentration camp, found it “tidy, even gay”....
...In Bath, a portrait of the French king Louis XII from the workshop of Jean Perréal may have been brought over to the court of Henry VIII to help broker the marriage between Louis and Henry’s sister, Mary...
...Could any of our haul conceivably have belonged to Mary Tudor, sister of King Henry VIII, who used the priory as a hunting lodge?...
...“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?”...
...The shortest administration, according to some accounts, is that of the Earl of Bath and his cousin the Earl Granville, the secretary of state....
...Another was his campaign to impeach Earl Warren, chief justice of the Supreme Court, for his philo-Soviet rulings from the bench (including the 1954 desegregation of US schools in Brown vs Board of Education...
...Feilding’s grandparents bought the house in 1919, custodians in the footsteps not only of King Alfred, but also Henry III (who gave the then-incarnation of the house to his brother, the scheming Earl of...
...Henry Wessells Upper Montclair, NJ, US...
...Mindful of his own monarch, Shakespeare couldn’t extol the Yorkists; Ashley D Gayle is a loutish braggart as King Edward (Henry VI’s on a break), while the juvenile Henry Earl of Richmond (Elizabeth I’s...
...The route also passes close to Braemar Castle, which was constructed in 1628 by John Erskine, Earl of Mar, as a hunting lodge....
...A dealer bought it from Reynolds’ estate for 100 guineas (about £16,000 today) and passed it on to Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle....
...prime minister, he is the first person from an ethnic minority to hold the position since Benjamin Disraeli left office for the final time in 1880, and the youngest prime minister since Robert Jenkinson, Earl...
...Kingston-born singer Earl 16 steps his way through “Got to Live”, a rework of his 1970s hit “Changing World”....
...henry.mance@ft.com Letter in response to this column: A luxury wrestle with pinniped-sized pillows / From Patty Otis Abel, New York, NY, US...
...If Anne Glenconner had been born a boy, she’d own the pub that we’re meeting in, the surrounding estate of Holkham, the fifth-largest in England, and the title of the Earl of Leicester....
...In the drawing of a teenaged Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1532-33), the proud chin and pinched yet sensual lips hint at an inner battle between arrogance and insecurity....
...The Courtenays arrived with Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1154 and one forebear, Richard Courtenay, was buried with Henry V in Westminster Abbey, after dying of dysentery in Henry’s tent at the Siege of Harfleur...
...Another peculiarity is around the role of Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, the 22nd Earl of Shrewsbury....
...There were only fields little more than 250 years ago, when the architect Henry Holland laid out a new town of handsome homes....
...To war-torn London first, where the young Earl of Harpenden (Bobby) is having a stressful day....
...While you take in Brooks’s Palladian façade by Henry Holland, think of how the sandwich was reputedly invented here by the eponymous earl not wanting to interrupt a particularly intense gambling session...
...The Earl of Birkenhead, in 1916, as attorney-general had successfully procured the death sentence for Sir Roger Casement....
...Nikolaus Pevsner, the celebrated architectural historian, had written that Henry Lascelles’s wealth came “from the ribbon trade and the collecting of customs in Barbados”....
...So Henry VIII actually launched my career – in a fat suit. Despite my love for Shakespeare, I don’t believe he wrote the plays....
...and dominated by an imperious Henry VIII from the studio of Hans Holbein....
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