How do we stand with Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville? 
And what if one of the sons married a Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax gel?
And what if one of the sons married a Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax gel?
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It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. -
"Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville"
... thanks for that, Fr: Fr: - it had been nagging at me that there was an even better name lurking in the DNB - and you have disinterred it.
It really is unbeatable!
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Well S-A, yes and no, not at all. Often, when no male heir to carry on the name it's coupled so as to preserve it, otherwise it would be lost forever (to that branch) In my family a variation on that but surname, to avoid being lost, used as Christian name for males (first name) and females (middle name)Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostComment
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... I still treasure an announcement in The Times from some years back -
" Count M Tornielli di Crestvolant and Miss L Jones
The engagement is announced between Massimiliano, only son of the late Count Carlo Cesare Tornielli di Crestvolant and Baroness Maria Stefania Daublebsky von Sterneck, Countess Tornielli di Crestvolant, of 2 via Clitunno, Rome, and Lise, only daughter of Mr Michael Jones, of The Garden House, Wargrave, Berkshire and of Fuengirola, Spain, and Signora Emilia Lepetit, of I/a via Ariosto, Milan, Italy and Sydney, Australia."
A novella, at the very least, in the making there...
... perhaps Ronald Firbank??Last edited by vinteuil; 20-11-11, 15:59.Comment
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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
Perfect, vinblanc, and well-remembered! 
You have unearthed a doosie, FF
This all puts me in mind of the fact that, based on a fictional alter ego occasionally assumed in correspondence by a friend of mine, I essayed some sub-Wodehouse sketches and short stories with questionable double-entendre undercurrents featuring Sir Peregrine Fiennes-Frobisher-Hartley and his wife Lady Coribunda. Her unmarried and somewhat racy sister Cornucopia lived with them, I recall, and their son Aethelfric attended a minor public school run by Hugo Wankham-Knightly...
Happily perhaps, the rest is lost in the mists of time
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I'm not sure that mercia hasn't trumped it. I'm puzzled by the pronunciation of Tollemache given by Wikipedia. It differs from that of the present Lord T.Originally posted by Caliban View PostYou have unearthed a doosie, FFIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Originally posted by french frank View Post
I love the precision of your thinking, ff!
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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The wonderful Eric Rhodes in one of those Astaire / Rogers movies
" Tonetti he say --For the woman the kiss ! For the man the sword ! "Comment
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I know she's foreign & doesn't, therefore, count, but I think the Duchess of Alba takes some beating - Maria del Rosario Cayetana Alfonsa Victoria Eugenia Francisca Fitz-James Stuart y de Silva (I think it's the way 'Fitz-James Stuart' is slipped in that puts the icing on the cake). That & the seven time a duchess, 22 times a countess, & 24 times a marquesa.
She's also fortunate in that she's allowed not to kneel before the pope (quite a benefit at 85, although she still seems to be pretty sprightly) and is allowed to ride on horseback into Seville cathedral (& quite right too - saves all that terribly undignified palaver dismounting)Comment
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... yes indeedy - and her recent marriage to a (considerably younger) commoner was a cause of serious scandal...Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
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Fancy King Juan Carlos expressing an objection to the marriage! There's grand
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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I think the Duchess probably out-ranks Juan Carlos. I mean, is he allowed to ride a horse into Seville Cathedral?Comment
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