grandee
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The messages also show what Lord Mandelson, a grandee of the New Labour years, thought about the Starmer government after Labour's return to power in 2024.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
Those files exposed a friendship between the convicted sex offender and Peter Mandelson, a Labour Party grandee and Mr. Starmer’s choice for ambassador to Washington.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
An even more welcome addition to our already bulging shelves is the belated arrival of a largely complete studio discography of Britain’s greatest conductor, and certainly its most self-possessed: the musical grandee Sir Thomas Beecham.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
The responses demonstrated the conflicted attitude many in Labour clearly felt towards a party grandee they saw as both a masterful political operator and a deeply flawed man.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025
Its high, somewhat stiff collar against my neck, the wide cuffs touching my wrists, the rich material against my skin excited a sense of strangeness and distinction; I felt like some nobleman, some Spanish grandee.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
