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...once and future kings. The author of those wry and rueful words, lamenting a downward mobility forever out of his grasp, is H.R.H. Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, K.G., Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall in the peerage of England, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, and Lord of Renfrew in the peerage of Scotland, Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of Scotland...
...Coldstream villagers confessed last week that they were a little upset over Home's decision to drop his titles, but as Provost Joseph Carrick said sturdily, "To us, he'll always be the Earl...
...song, Campbell was even more Top than Mrs. Sweeny. In 1949 he became Duke of Argyll (family motto: "Forget Not"), Chief of Clan Campbell, Hereditary Master of the King's Household in Scotland, Admiral of the Western Coasts and Isles. Hereditary Sheriff of Argyll, Keeper of Dunstaffnage, Carrick, Tarbert and Dunoon Castles, and heir to a Burke's dozen earldoms, viscountcies, marquisates and baronetcies. Favored Four. In 1951, two weeks after a lurid divorce from Louise, the duke married Mrs. Sweeny. Last week in Edinburgh, the Toppers too were divorced. Their decree. 65.000 words long, took the judge...
...first bestowed upon his own son in 1301. "I intend," said the Queen, "to create my son Prince of Wales today. When he is grown up, I will present him to you at Caernarvon." In addition to being Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Charles Philip Arthur George can also look forward to being Earl of Chester and Knight of the Garter. The last Englishman to hold such honors: the former Edward VIII, now Duke of Windsor, whose classmates...
...lord among them. But one day last week a black Ford pulled up to the door, and out jumped a chubby-cheeked new boy of eight. For England, this was big news indeed: His Royal Highness Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, and Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, was going to elementary school-the first heir apparent to the throne to do so in the history of the kingdom...