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Married. Hugh Algernon Percy, 32, tenth Duke of Northumberland, lineal descendant of Shakespeare's Harry Hotspur and of Charles II; and Lady Elizabeth Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 24, daughter of the eighth Duke of Buccleuch, whose Scottish ancestors feuded with the English Percys for four centuries; both for the first time; in Westminster Abbey, London, with the Royal Family present. The duke crossed the border on a black charger to court his bride in true Percy style...
...nearby cell of the Tower languished another treason suspect-handsome, youthful Lord Robert Dudley, whose father, the Duke of Northumberland, had just been beheaded. As children, Lord Robert and the Lady Elizabeth had played together; they had studied Latin under the same tutor. In the Tower they met again. Soon it was rumored that dashing Prisoner Dudley had so bewitched Prisoner Elizabeth that she had fallen hopelessly in love with him. The rumor seemed to be confirmed nearly five years later, when Elizabeth rode in state to her coronation, and Robert Dudley, her newly created Master of the Horse, proudly...
...Sunday Mr. Truman attended church services again and heard Staff Sergeant Francis K. Marshall, of Northumberland, Pa., sing: If With all Your Hearts...
...other walls portraits of distinguished cattle share honors with the cattlemen. Among them: the Duke of Northumberland, "the best Shorthorn bull in all England in 1839"; a charming oil of a Guernsey cow with dainty pink nostrils and eyelids. There is a two-foot bronze sculpture of a Belgian horse by Rosa Bonheur's gifted brother, Isadore...
This flow of supply keeps Eire's shaky economy going. It also feeds and heats Nazi Minister Eduard Hempel's big staff on Dublin's Northumberland Road. And it fuels Jap Consul Fetsuya Beppu's auto on its way to the local golf course. Dev's people and guests were in danger of becoming cold, hungry pedestrians...