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...revelation also has its embarrassing side: Gytha's great-grandfather was none other than the cruel 11th century Earl Leofric of Coventry, who according to legend agreed to the pleas of his wife-Lady Godiva-that taxes be reduced, but only if she would ride naked through town. In the light of the new British tax hike by a latter-day Harold (Wilson), some Britons may hope that the Godiva instinct is not dead in the breast of her queenly descendant. Elizabeth, after all, is a fine horsewoman...
...public-spirited Lady named Godiva and her husband, Earl Leofric, built Coventry's first great church in 1043; it stood until Henry VIII had it pulled down around 1540. A second-the magnificent Gothic St. Michael's Cathedral-was completed in 1433, and lasted until the night of Nov. 14, 1940, when 500 German planes bombed it in a raid that forever linked the city's name to the destructiveness of modern war. Only the outer walls, tower and spire of St. Michael's were left standing...
Self-effacing Field Marshal Alexander is a smooth politician ("90% of my job in the Mediterranean was politics"), a passable amateur oil painter and, at 60, still an avid outdoorsman (formerly football, track and cricket, now mostly shooting, skiing and fishing). He was born Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, the third son of the Fourth Earl of Caledon. After Harrow and Sandhurst, he wore "the brightest Sam Browne and boots in the British army," fought in World War I, served in India between the wars...
...Empire's youngest fighting field marshal was appointed Governor General of Canada last week. From London and Ottawa came simultaneous announcements of the appointment of 53-year-old Sir Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, K.C.B., C.B., C.S.I., D.S.O., M.C., one of Britain's ablest soldiers...
Wild Boys. Third son of the fourth Earl of Caledon, Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander was born 52 years ago in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.* The family, Catholics in a predominantly Protestant region, lived in a rambling old stone house surrounded by a forest and park where fallow deer ran wild. Harold's father died when he was a baby, and he and his four brothers ran wild, too, returning to the house mostly for sleep...