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Hace 4 días · In 1728 the Duke's widow, Elizabeth, Duchess of Portland, obtained a private Act of Parliament allowing her and others as guardians of Lord George to grant reversionary leases for a maximum term of seventy years. (fn. 14) From 1728, when the granting of leases recommenced, they were, therefore, granted not by the second Duke but by his mother, t...
Hace 5 días · And in Mary’s greatest hour of need, that little girl, now the Dowager Duchess of Portland and the richest woman in England, offered her a home. And not just any home. The Duchess’s estate was nicknamed “The Hive” for the artists and scientists in residence who helped Margaret catalog her collections—botanists ...
Hace 5 días · The Duchess of Portland was spotted there in 1893, 'patronising the afterseason sale'. (fn. 23) In 1896 began the first phase of a programme of complete rebuilding, which continued into 1900–01, the final phase, covering the sites of houses at the rear of Lowndes Terrace in William Street (including No. 17).
Hace 2 días · There are seven private chapels in this parish belonging to the church of England; Oxford chapel, built before 1739 ; Portland chapel, about 1766; Bentinck chapel, in 1772; Titchfield chapel, about 1774; Portman chapel, about 1779; Quebec chapel, about 1788; Margaret-street chapel, first used as a place of worship for the church of England about 1789.
Hace 5 días · The engagement. Moscow, 21 January 2021. It is with great pleasure that Her Imperial Highness The Grand Duchess of Russia, Head of the Russian Imperial House, announces the betrothal of her beloved son, His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke George of Russia, to Nob. Rebecca Virginia Bettarini, daughter of His Excellency Ambassador Nob.
Hace 4 días · From Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History, by John Julius Norwich (Random House, 2015), Kindle pp. 250-253:. HAVING EFFECTIVELY DEALT WITH both the King and the Queen and given Sicily its admirable new constitution, Bentinck—who never forgot that he was also a soldier—decided to obey a recent summons to go and join Wellington’s army in Catalonia.
Hace 4 días · Natalia, who has been Duchess of Westminster since 1979 after her marriage to the Duke's father Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, will pass on her title to Henson.
