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
Starmer has apologized for hiring the Labour Party grandee, and Mandelson has quit the House of Lords—the British Parliament’s upper chamber—amid a police investigation into whether he shared market-sensitive information with the financier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
Ms. Cheever began to understand that his stories came at least partly from the tension between his private feelings of shame and the effort to maintain his respectability as a literary grandee and paterfamilias.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
She is "right to accurately emphasise diversion", the grandee said.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 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
