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...love letters of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Prime Minister to Queen Victoria are at length to be fully published...
...George for chicanery, the Empire seemed to pause on the brink of quite appalling possibilities. In 1924 the Liberal Party held a similar balance of power between Conservatives and Laborites, but in those days, the helm of Liberalism was steadied by the firm hand and moral weight of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith, now dead (TIME., Feb. 27, 1928). Today there is no force within the Liberal Party able to keep Little David from staging his own particular brand of rip-roaring Taffy Welshman's holiday...
...Historic Gamle† Oslo was founded by potent Harold Haardraada about 1050, and petite Princess Martha comes to reign-eventually-over a proud little city which was already old when her own rich and extensive Stockholm was founded upon mud flats and granite in 1255 by Birger, Jarl (Earl) of Bjelbo. Last week, on the very site of the Jarl's first great hall, in a palace blazing with made-in-Sweden light bulbs, the preliminary, pre-nuptial ball was given by Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden. Over from Oslo for this event dashed Norway's spruce...
...Anthony Asquith is the son of the late great Earl of Oxford and Asquith by his second wife, Margot Asquith. He has one sister, Princess Bibesco...
...tradition, as precious as her wedding ring. It is a ring of old white gold set with diamonds. Two hundred years ago it belonged to Evelyn Byrd, "the fairest flower" of Colonial Virginia, who, when she was presented at the Court of St. James's, met the gallant Earl of Peterborough. They fell in love and became engaged to be married. But when Evelyn Byrd returned to Virginia, her father flew into a rage. The Earl was a Catholic. The daughter of a loyal Church of Englander might never marry him. The lovely Evelyn died...