earl
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The earl has denied siding with the Duke of Sussex over his brother, the Prince of Wales.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
"It's in the context of a conversation where Diana is telling me that her marriage is over," the earl replied.
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
Once, it is said, an earl stormed into Holbein’s London workshop demanding that the artist paint his portrait at once.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Now the earl and I were a pair.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
English earls were replaced with Normans, as were senior members of the Church.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
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
To pass the time, Huck is telling Jim stories about “kings, and dukes, and earls, and such.”
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2012
If this ex- panded idea of freedom spread, how safe were the kings and dukes, earls and knights, of England?
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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