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“The popular press has named her as one of London’s ‘Reigning Beauties’ for the last two years. Her name is Arabella Fermor.”
Sophie Gee • The Scandal of the Season: A Novel
George King Forster, Yvonne de Ferranti
Roy Maxwell Drummond (Peter), Isabel Drake-Brockman (Lala)
all landed gentry it seems- Bamburgh Castle 16th century, Bologna/Florence/Venice 9th century, Hathornden Castle 17th century, Beachborough Manor 16th century
So was connection from place severed a long long time ago?
The Brockmans in the 1800’s in
... See moreLady Rothley nodded. A dark, handsome woman in her forties, she did not object to Quin’s scholarship. It happened sometimes in these old families. At Wallington, the Trevelyans were for ever writing history books.
Eva Ibbotson • The Morning Gift
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
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Having done several Seasons without, so to speak, a matrimonial nibble, Lady Plackett had accepted the son of an undistinguished chartered accountant and set herself to advancing his career. It had not been easy. Desmond, when she met him, did not even know that Cholmondely was pronounced Chumley, but she had persevered and now, after twenty-five
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