Word: plantagenets
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Lady Falkland, after her husband's death, imagined that Byron (he had never seen her) was in love with her. She thought the women mentioned in his poems were herself. Her sons, Lucius and Plantagenet, shared her delusion. She wrote: ''Surely I cannot be mistaken! Byron, my adored Byron, come to me ... tell me, my Byron, if those mournful tender effusions . . . to Thyrza . . . were not intended for myself...
...examples are Robert the Devil, Duke of Normandy who returned from a journey, declared Arlette the daughter of the Innkeeper of Falaise divorced. She had been married almost twenty years. He moved her into the Castle to be his duchess and the mother of William the Conquerer. Henry Plantagenet who was on of England's great Kings. He was a traveler who spent barely half of the thirty-five years he was king in England. He helped Eleanor of Aquitaine to get a divorce from Louis VII of France to marry him. When all this has happened...
...bearing Their Majesties, Their Excellencies, Their Royal Highnesses. Their Graces. Their Reverences, Lords and Ladies, Right Honorables and commoners of renown chuffed slowly toward Windsor on the last solemn journey of George V. who founded the House of Windsor. That deed stands imperishably in history with such monoliths as PLANTAGENET. The late King was born Saxe-Coburg-and-Gotha. Very unobtrusively in His Majesty's funeral escort this week moved His Royal Highness Leopold Charles Edward George Albert, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-and-Gotha in Germany, Prince Royal of Great Britain and Ireland and a Gruppenführer...
...House of Plantagenet...
...painting is the work of Francis John Clarence Westenra Plantagenet Hastings, Viscount Hastings, son & heir of the Earl of Huntington. A direct descendant of Robert Hastings, steward to William the Conqueror, with ancestral estates in Leicestershire, Lord Hastings finds Britain too expensive, makes his permanent home in the South Seas, at Faretaotootoa, Moorea Island. His family shield is an empty sleeve supported by two man-faced lions. Unlike Diego Rivera who paints meticulously with a camel's hair brush on wet plaster, Hastings uses a spray...