Sentence examples similar to a earl from inspiring English sources

Anne's great great great-grandparents included a Lord Mayor of London, a duke, an earl, two aristocratic ladies, and a knight.

She is the granddaughter of an earl, a descendant of a mistress of Edward VII and a relation of Camilla Parker Bowles, Prince Charles's girlfriend.

In 13th-century England any commander of a troop of 10 or more lances who was not a count or an earl was usually a banneret.

"And would it be for a duke or an earl?" Konstantin Kakanias, an artist, used his linen briefly as a head scarf.

(Shulman, who declined to be interviewed, became a well-regarded journalist and author, and is now married to a marquess — below a duke, above an earl).

Yes, I would like to be an earl with a landed estate.

The wife of an earl is a countess; she is "Right Honourable" and is styled "My Lady".

(And 'Lady Mary' would have been quite correct if Lady Soames had been the daughter of a duke or an earl).

But on the other hand, Ragnar -- and I certainly think this about Travis -- never wanted to be a king or an earl, per se.

Ada Lovelace, the daughter of a famous poet and clever mother who went on to marry an earl, came from a privileged background that exposed her to the new mathematical ideas of the day.

Cranley Lodge, despite the grand name, is a tiny two-bedroom house built in 1860 as a painting studio for an earl's wife.