Word: marquess
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...pals gathered on weekends. But the princess soon tired of what she called Snowdon's "leather jacket" cronies, who bridled at calling her "Your Royal Highness." When Margaret stopped going to Sussex, Tony took fashion models along on assignments. Another reported companion, from the nearby estate of the Marquess of Reading, was the Marquess's daughter, Lady Jacqueline Rufus Isaacs. Lady Jackie, pouty-lipped, leggy and then 24, was said to have seen Tony both in the country and in London, but she steadfastly denied any romance...
...early 18th century, the question "Who rules Britain?" could be answered with a simple tautology. Britain was ruled by the ruling classes. More specifically, although swayed by commoners and clergy, it was ruled by one monarch, 25 dukes, one marquess, 81 earls, twelve viscounts and 63 barons. In the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution brought with it the need for a new cultural catechism, and by 1843 Historian-Seer Thomas Carlyle was prophesying the emergence of new leaders: from an "Industrial Aristocracy as yet only half-alive, spellbound amid moneybags and ledgers," would arise noble captains of industry to lead...
...member of Britain's fencing team. Even as a Socialist and disillusioned survivor of the first World War's unchivalrous slaughter, Mosley never lost his dash. His political enemies called him the Playboy of the West End World. His first wife, Cynthia Curzon, daughter of a marquess and granddaughter of a Chicago multimillionaire, made racy copy. Wrote one gossip columnist: Lady Cynthia attended a theater opening "well on the gold standard in a glittering sequined coat." Her sister Alexandra was nicknamed Ba-Ba-Blackshirt...
...know exactly what a Conservative government would be like," said Wilson, "whether they succeed in various invitations to Mr. Rag, Mr. Tag and the Marquess of Bobtail...
...their day for the works of Victorian painters like Alma-Tadema (when multiplied by 30 to bring them into line with the devalued dollar of the '70s) would make the cost of a Pollock or a Jasper Johns today seem almost reasonable. It is said that the Marquess of Westminster, when asked to send a painting from his collection to the 1857 loan exhibition in Manchester, gruffly sent a framed ?100,000 bank note instead...