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The Earl of Cardigan has made up with his son after the heir sold the family’s 16th century mansion. David Brudenell-Bruce, 67, said he forgave Viscount Savernake after Tottenham House near Marlborough, Wiltshire, and family paintings were sold in 2008. Lord Cardigan had been removed from running the stunning Savernake Forest Estate after he moved … Read more
Earl of Cardigan is being sued for £27,000 by barrister who helped him stop sale of family portraits aristocrat was being forced to auction to clear £2m overdraft Lawyer Henry Hendron helped stop the Earl of Cardigan’s portraits being sold Eight family portraits were almost sold by trustees to clear a £2 million overdraft The … Read more
The Grand National may have been called off, but the Earl of Derby has pulled off a remarkable victory against the odds near one of Britain’s premier horse-racing venues. The scion of the Victorian prime minister has won an 11-year battle to build 400 homes on his stud farm near Newmarket. Jockeys and race spectators … Read more
The Earl of Derby has won a controversial planning war that spanned 11 years to build 400 homes and a primary school on a site next to the Sheikh of Dubai’s stud farm. Edward Stanley, the 19th Earl of Derby, who is worth £45million, has wanted to build homes at his Hatchfield Stud Farm in … Read more
Aristocratic Earl of Shrewsbury demands law change to allow daughters to inherit titles to mark International Women’s Day – while Labour launches fresh attempt to boot all hereditary peers out of the House of Lords Charles Chetwynd-Talbot wants to end the ‘imbalance of the genders’ in system The 67-year-old earl’s elder child is his daughter, … Read more
Lady Diana’s brother Charles Spencer has shared a touching tribute to their aunt Lady Anne Wake Walker, who died on Monday night at the age of 99. The 9th Earl Spencer took to Instagram to share a childhood photograph of his aunt and father, John Spencer, playing on the family’s estate of Althorp in 1925, … Read more
MEMOIR Mapperton Moments by John Montagu (Skyscraper £10, 224 pp) Leaking house, leaking pond, leaking puppy, leaking father… these touching diaries of John Montagu (now the 11th Earl of Sandwich), chronicling his father’s slow decline into Alzheimer’s disease and death over eight years, have them all, in dripping abundance. Drip, drip, drip. It’s January 1987 … Read more
The Queen’s nephew David Linley could be set for a battle over millions of pounds in assets with his wife after the pair announced they were set to divorce. The Earl of Snowdon and his wife Serena, Countess of Snowdon are splitting ‘amicably’ after some 25 years of marriage. The Earl, who is 21st in … Read more