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When an hereditary peerage dies out it can be re-created. There is no better example than the Dukes of Buckingham with four Creations.

A Wolf Azure, Ducally Gorged

A wolf azure, ducally gorged is how you may feel after Christmas dinner and too much plum pudding with brandy butter. It is also a supporter, sinister, on the Bellew arms.

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War and War

My brother creates his own headed writing paper using an embossing machine.

Proclamation

The King’s Accession Council in St James’s Palace last year was the first time this once-in-a-reign ceremony has been televised.

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

  God rest ye merry gentlemenLet nothing you dismayRemember Christ our SaviourWas born on Christmas DayTo save us all from Satan’s powerWhen we were gone astrayOh tidings of comfort and joyComfort and joyOh tidings of comfort and joy.

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The World was my Oyster

The W was my O in the summer of 1976 when they were out of season and what I wanted was a job, not a mollusc.

A Place in the Rain

”Baroness Caterina de Renzis and her late husband, Baron Alessandro de Renzis Sonnino, first saw Castello Sonnino … in 1988. The estate with its 16th century villa had just been left to Alessandro by a childless uncle; in its 500 years of existence, it had been variously inhabited by Frescobaldis, Machiavellis and Strozzis, as well… Continue reading A Place in the Rain