Sentence examples for peeress from inspiring English sources

She remained a member of Parliament until the 1992 election and was subsequently elevated, as a peeress for life, to the House of Lords.

He said the controversial Bill was a better one for the intervention of Shirley Williams, the Lib Dem peeress.

Even the dear old peeress who rather elegantly – though accidentally, she later said – raised two fingers to her fellow peer Lord King as he droned on about her age has been taken to task.

In her moulting fur and gym shoes, Frances de la Tour's splendid Dorothy – peeress, ex-model and long-time recluse – is as grand and down-at-heel as Stacpole, the decaying country house in South Yorkshire where she lives in dust-sheeted, Arctic conditions with her lower-class companion Iris (a marvellously moth-eaten and slyly subversive Linda Bassett).

Lady, in the British Isles, a general title for any peeress below the rank of duchess and also for the wife of a baronet or of a knight.

One thing is clear: the list must have been compiled by a retired British military man now employed by a peer or peeress who has strong ties to the Church of England.

At a coronation the coronets are carried by pages and are put on at the moment when St. Edward's Crown is set on the head of the sovereign; when there is a queen consort, the peeresses wait for the moment of her coronation before doing the same.

Not only was Hartnell working flat out making the coronation robe for the new Queen's forthcoming investiture, he was also responsible for the outfits worn by the female members of the royal party, not to mention redesigning the robes for the peeresses of the realm.

The hours that other political leaders (Tories as well as Liberals) devoted to charitable committees, or promoting social reforms, Disraeli spent in writing flirtatious letters to peeresses or taking the air in his carriage in London's royal parks.

As she waited for the members of the House of Commons to turn up, she couldn't help but notice that a large number of peeresses were sporting Donald Trump haircuts.

The "unified rustle" heard in Westminster Abbey a moment after she received her crown was, Nicolson writes, "the sound of the peeresses lifting their own tiaras to their heads".