Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Joel Stevens, Symbola heroica: or the mottoes of the nobility and baronets of Great-Britain and Ireland; placed alphabetically (1736) The daily telegraph,mad about the mansion,a review of hassobury manor (27 February 2005)
Young British aristocrats were rare visitors to New South Wales, and Sydney matrons with unmarried daughters ensured they did not lack invitations to dinners, balls and other social events. Lord Henry made many sketches and paintings in the colony, some of which are now held by the Mitchell Library and John Oxley Library in Australia.
A c. 1760 painting of James Grant, John Mytton, Thomas Robinson and Thomas Wynne on the Grand Tour by Nathaniel Dance-Holland. The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to early 19th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe, with Italy as a key destination, undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a tutor or family member ...
Barbara Young, Baroness Young of Old Scone: 1997 George Simpson, Baron Simpson of Dunkeld: 1997 Mike Watson, Baron Watson of Invergowrie: 1997 Richard Ryder, Baron Ryder of Wensum: 1997 Roy Hattersley, Baron Hattersley: 1997 Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell: 1998: Timothy Clement-Jones, Baron Clement-Jones: 1998
The peerage forms part of the British honours system, as the highest tier. This role dates back to the days when being ennobled by the monarch meant secure addition for someone and their heirs into the British aristocracy, and alongside it, political power and a theoretically raised status within the hierarchy of the British class system.
On 21 August 1996, letters patent changed titles of divorced wives of British princes, depriving their former wives of the style of Royal Highness. [19] For this reason Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales after divorce became Diana, Princess of Wales. The same happened to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, who became Sarah, Duchess of ...
Hugh Grosvenor is just 28 years old and has a fortune of over £10bn and is far richer than the Queen.
The British nobility is made up of the peerage and the (landed) gentry.The nobility of its four constituent home nations has played a major role in shaping the history of the country, although the hereditary peerage now retain only the rights to stand for election to the House of Lords, dining rights there, position in the formal order of precedence, the right to certain titles, and the right ...