earl
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Soon after, the earl says he took a call from Prince Charles, who asked him about his opposition to it.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Similarly, the earl of Peterborough's son refused both to remove his hat and to enter a plea when tried for treason in 1658.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2026
Though he had - as he put it - "defended the indefensible" by arguing against the removal of hereditary peers, the earl has accepted his fate and was not "unduly distressed by it".
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
They include the alabaster monument to John, seventh earl of Arundel, a high-profile casualty of the Hundred Years’ War with France.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
Unlike them, I was not the daughter of an earl or a duke or the cousin of a European prince.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
English earls were replaced with Normans, as were senior members of the Church.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
We may not be earls or billionaires, but we can eat like them.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025
Its inhabitants are those of “there will always be an England” England: stern vicars, timid curates, lords and earls, penniless titled wastrels living on allowances from their uncles, imperious aunts, upper-crust twits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025
The tradition caught on and English colleges became diploma mills for earls and barons who never cracked a book or scribbled on parchment in their storied halls.
From Washington Times ● May 9, 2018
Dukes and earls had rich rugs spread on the grass before their tents, with their shields hung up on display.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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