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Hace 5 días · Examples: “Candy, Duchess of Kendal—Elizabeth’s sister. Nickname: Nighty,” and “Anthony, Duke of Kendal—Candy’s husband. Nickname: Snaffles.”
Hace 5 días · I always find these helpful, especially in Russian novels, where everyone has three names and there are a lot of characters. There are 58 in Caledonian Road, and some of them indeed have more than one name. Examples: “Candy, Duchess of Kendal—Elizabeth’s sister. Nickname: Nighty,” and “Anthony, Duke of Kendal—Candy’s ...
Hace 4 días · 1685 – 1782. On the death of king Charles II. in 1685, addresses were sent up to his successor, James II. both by the corporation and Trinity House of Newcastle. In the following year, the town's chamber was robbed, when the corporation offered £100 for the discovery of the offenders.
Hace 3 días · The parochial chapels of Grasmere and Windermere, nominally subordinate to Kendal, had their own rectors nominated by the lord of the moiety of the manor of Kendal to which they were appendant, for presentation by the abbot and convent who were patrons of the vicarage of the mother-church.
Hace 3 días · Charles Edward (Leopold Charles Edward George Albert; [note 1] 19 July 1884 – 6 March 1954) was at various points in his life a British prince, a German duke and a Nazi politician. He was the last ruling duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a state of the German Empire, from 30 July 1900 to 14 November 1918.
Hace 3 días · Incredibly, England was now at war with both France and Spain, and Buckingham was determined to restore his reputation. Instead, the campaign of 1627 was a disaster, and the duke’s landing at the Île de Ré a debacle. It was hard to see how Charles could protect him from his critics once the Parliament of 1628–29 assembled.
Hace 5 días · Clarendon, who had lived with the king in exile, was his chief political adviser, and Charles’s brother James, duke of York (later James II), was his closest confidant and was entrusted with the vital post of lord admiral.
