Debrett's etiquette guide has for centuries provided the rules for handling ticklesome social situations, such as not knowing how to address an envelope to the widow of an earl ("The Dowager Countess of Wherever" should do it, FYI).
The vast ranges of new buildings grafted onto it by the first earl and stamped throughout with his freshly acquired heraldic devices were designed as a fanfare to his dignity, an apotheosis of venerableness.Knole was roughed up in the civil war and requisitioned by Parliament for its regional headquarters.
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.
But take off your macintosh and you can still be brought a sandwich, like that 18th-century earl, who thus could go on gambling uninterrupted; and even now it may be sitting on a doily, supposedly a 17th-century London draper.Some words are deceptive.
Though her father was an earl, Diana's loathing for horses, summers in Balmoral and the rest was a key plank of her case that she was a modern princess and a better parent than her husband, the Prince of Wales.
Earlier this year, Xydakis roundly condemned the British Museum's decision rejecting a Unesco offer to help resolve the dispute more than 200 years after the sculptures were controversially removed from Athens' greatest temple, the Parthenon, by the seventh Earl of Elgin during his tenure as ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.
Think of David Maxwell Fyfe [the future Tory lord chancellor the Earl of Kilmuir who drafted the convention].
Her true love is the Earl of Bothwell (Fredric March), who is really annoyed she has married someone else.
Eton-educated Charles is the eighth Earl of Cadogan and ran the family business, Cadogan Estates, until 2012 when he handed it over to his son Edward, Viscount Chelsea.
In 1748, the title of Rochester was held by Henry Hyde, 4th Earl of Clarendon, an obscure former Tory MP in his late 70s with an interest in opera.
Even so, Hyde was the daughter of Charles II's lord chancellor and chief adviser, the future Earl of Clarendon – rather than, as 28-year-old Middleton is, the offspring of a couple who have made a fortune providing bags for children's parties.
