Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon" ¶ 29
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Margaret's and wrote
In June 1548, during the war of the Rough Wooing, Margaret's father, the Earl of Angus, wrote to her with the news that her half-brother George Douglas and others of the family had been captured at Dalkeith Palace.
A few weeks after Margaret's book was published, Salinger wrote a letter to The New York Observer, disparaging his sister's " gothic tales of our supposed childhood.
After Charlie found a classical music composition for the piano ( an Etude in G minor ) that their mother wrote under her maiden name and his father admits that music was one of Margaret's first loves, Don and his brother remember the piano lessons that she made them take.

Margaret's and She
She saw education as Margaret's weapon and " the key to survival ".
She was educated at St Margaret's School, Bushey.
She wore a dress designed by Bruce Robbins, noted for its resemblance to Princess Margaret's 1960 Norman Hartnell wedding dress.
She was educated at Queen Margaret's School near York and at Runton Hill School in Norfolk.
She married Ottavio Farnese, a nephew of Pope Paul III and was soon widowed again, but at Margaret's death, the villa passed into the Farnese family, Dukes of Parma and Piacenza, who let it slowly fall into ruin.
She also conducted Aunt Judy's Magazine, a family publication written by various members of Margaret's large family.
She also meets Margaret's younger brothers Francie, a fiddler, and the rakish Finn.

Margaret's and was
At the University of Cambridge, he was the Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity and had the option of spending the rest of his life as an English professor.
The site was selected by Margaret's husband, Edgar W. Stanton, with the help of then-university president William M. Beardshear.
Margaret's father, Michael Hennessy Higgins, was a Catholic who became an atheist and an activist for women's suffrage and free public education.
The point of naming Margaret's sons, Edward after her father Edward the Exile, Edmund for her grandfather Edmund Ironside, Ethelred for her great-grandfather Ethelred the Unready and Edgar for her great-great-grandfather Edgar and her brother, briefly the elected king, Edgar Ætheling, was unlikely to be missed in England, where William of Normandy's grasp on power was far from secure.
A new west façade facing onto St Margaret's Street was built in the Palladian style between 1755 and 1770, providing more space for document storage and committee rooms.
Years later, Margaret's daughter Alice called Tubman's actions selfish, saying, " she had taken the child from a sheltered good home to a place where there was nobody to care for her.
Dressed in his brigadier's uniform, Enoch Powell was buried in his regiment's plot in Warwick Cemetery, Warwickshire, ten days later, after a family funeral service at Westminster Abbey and a public service at St. Margaret's, Westminster.
Margaret's early life was spent primarily at the Yorks ' residences at 145 Piccadilly ( their town house in London ) or Royal Lodge in Windsor.
The Yorks were perceived by the public as an ideal family: father, mother and children, but unfounded rumours that Margaret was deaf and dumb were not completely dispelled until Margaret's first main public appearance at her uncle Prince George's wedding in 1934.
The three-month long visit was Margaret's first visit abroad, and she later claimed that she remembered " every minute of it ".
Margaret's corsage was designed by Norman Hartnell, and the honeymoon was spent aboard the royal yacht Britannia on a six-week Caribbean cruise.
The marriage widened Princess Margaret's social circle beyond the Court and aristocracy to include show business celebrities and bohemians, and was seen at the time as reflecting the breakdown of class barriers.
The rest of the tour drew demonstrations, and Margaret's security was doubled in the face of physical threats.
Christopher Bailey's Spring 2006 collection for Burberry was inspired by Margaret's look from the 1960s.
Princess Margaret's private life was for many years the subject of intense speculation by media and royal-watchers.
At the time of her death, Princess Margaret's full style was: Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret Rose, Countess of Snowdon, Companion of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India, Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Dame Grand Cross of the Most Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem.
The hereditary titles of Margaret's sisters, one of whom was the queen of England, were ignored.
Under the terms of Margaret's betrothal, she was sent to Louis to be brought up under his guardianship.
Far from the Scots displaying any desire to bring Margaret to Scotland, it was Margaret's father Eric who raised the question again.
At Margaret's baptism in 1925, Jack Kelly's mother, Mary Costello Kelly, expressed her disappointment that the baby was not named Grace in memory of her last daughter, who had died young.
In 1290, the Guardians of Scotland signed the Treaty of Birgham agreeing to the marriage of the Maid of Norway and Edward of Caernarvon, the son of Edward I, who was Margaret's great-uncle.
Despite this fall, she was still determined to attend Margaret's funeral at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, two days later on Friday of that week.

Margaret's and far
For her own part, Margaret's family were far more powerful and secure than they had been in 1454: her father had been killed at the Battle of Wakefield on 30 December 1460, but her brother was now Edward IV, opposed ineffectively only by Margaret of Anjou and her son, Edward of Westminster ; this made Margaret a far more valuable bride than she had been as the mere daughter of a Duke.
Sadly, poor health cut short Margaret's career — as far as we know, she produced no work after 1921.
On 2 September 1998, Swissair Flight 111 crashed into St. Margaret's Bay, not far from Halifax, Nova Scotia, killing all 229 people on board.
The chronicler Joinville, who was not a priest, reports incidents demonstrating Margaret's bravery after Louis was made prisoner in Egypt: she decisively acted to assure a food supply for the Christians in Damietta, and went so far as to ask the knight who guarded her bedchamber to kill her and her newborn son if the city should fall to the Arabs.

Margaret's and too
However, the evidence is too scanty to permit historians to establish this with absolute certainty as there were several women at Margaret's court bearing the name Elizabeth or Isabella Grey.
The late historian Paul Murray Kendall, on the other hand, maintained that Margaret's allies Somerset and William de la Pole, then Earl of Suffolk, had no difficulty in persuading her that York, until then one of Henry VI's most trusted advisors, was responsible for her unpopularity and already too powerful to be trusted.
Recalling to everyone's memory the faces of Margaret's children, and of A. K. Gaines, Stone told the packed courtroom: " The faded faces of the Negro children tell too plainly to what degradation the female slaves submit.

Margaret's and for
After Margaret's death Arthur wandered aimlessly around Liguria ostensibly looking at Terramare Culture sites and for Neolithic remains in Ligurian caves.
Somerset and Suffolk's joint responsibility for the secret surrender of Maine in 1448, and then the subsequent disastrous loss of the rest of Normandy in 1449 embroiled Margaret and Henry's court in riots, uprisings by the magnates, and calls for the impeachment and execution of Margaret's two strongest allies.
In November 1512 the Court of Chancery allowed Lady Margaret's executors to pay for the foundation of the college from her estates.
It was difficult at first to determine Margaret's intentions, as the Lancastrians had sent out several feints which suggested that they might be making directly for London, but Edward's army set out for the West Country within a few days.
His House for an Art Lover was finally built in Glasgow's Bellahouston Park in 1996, and the University of Glasgow ( which owns the majority of his watercolour work ) rebuilt the interiors of a terraced house Mackintosh had designed, and furnished it with his and Margaret's work ( it is part of the University's Hunterian Museum ).
In the 1070s St Margaret's Chapel was built on Magdelene Street, originally as a hospital and later as almshouses for the poor.
At the moment of her birth, Margaret's father was preparing to go to France and lead an important military expedition for King Henry VI.
* they shared a grandmother in English princess Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England and the elder sister of Henry VIII ( Mary descending from Margaret's marriage to James IV of Scotland, Darnley from Margaret's marriage to Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus ), putting both Mary and Darnley high in the line of succession for the English throne ;
Besides his share in the Lady Margaret's foundations, Fisher gave further proof of his genuine zeal for learning by inducing Erasmus to visit Cambridge.
Even before Margaret's sixth birthday, Henry VII thought about a marriage between Margaret and James IV as a way of ending the Scottish king's support for Perkin Warbeck, Yorkist pretender to the throne of England.
Another poem, Blyth Aberdeane was written for Margaret's welcome to Aberdeen.
During this time, Louis XI did all he could to prevent the marriage, demanding that the Pope refuse to give a dispensation for the marriage ( the pair were cousins in the fourth degree ), promising trade favours to the English, undermining Edward's credit with the international bankers to prevent him being able to pay for Margaret's dowry, encouraging a Lancastrian invasion of Wales, and slandering Margaret, claiming that she was not a virgin and had borne a bastard son.

1.007 seconds.