Francis Baron Hastings
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Keeping it in the family
Anne Stafford, Armada, Ashby St Ledgers, attainder, Calais, Calvinism, Catherine Dudley, Catherine Pole, Claire Cross, Earl of Leicester, Edward of Buckingham, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, fashion, Flanders, Francis Baron Hastings, George Duke of Clarence, Henry Earl of Huntingdon, Henry of Buckingham, James Earl of Morton, Jane, John Dudley Duke of Northumberland, John Earl of Lincoln, Leicester cathedral, Margaret Clitherow, Mary I, Mary Stuart, Michael K Jones, Northern Earls’ Rebellion, Phillip II, Plantagenet descent, recusants, Reginald Cardinal Pole, Scotland, Sir George Hastings, smallpox, statues, Vaughan porch, William CecilYou will have seen him if you have been to Richard III’s final resting place. There are eight small statues on the main entrance (the Vaughan Porch, left) of St. Martin’s Cathedral but only one of them is wearing a doublet and hose, showing him to have lived a century later than the others. This is…
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Interesting roots
“Tudors”, BBC, Catherine Pole, Clare Baldding, Danny Dyer, Earls of Derby, Earls of Huntingdon, Edward III, Ferdinando Stanley, Francis Baron Hastings, Frank Gardner, George Duke of Clarence, horse racing, Mary Stuart, royal descent, Sir Malcolm Bullock, The Derby, Thomas Lord Stanley, USA, Who do you think you are?“Who do you think you are?” has returned and the third episode of the new series (20 July) featured Clare Balding. After last year’s programmes , this one and this other recent one, it is no surprise that tracing this racing presenter’s royal ancestry is a little easier. Clare’s great-grandmother was Lady Victoria (hence the middle…
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http://www.itv.com/hub/victoria/2a4229a0001 It is more interesting to watch a drama about a much later monarch when one is better informed than before. Lady Flora Rawdon-Hastings, the lady in waiting who appeared to be pregnant but was suffering from a cancer that proved terminal after a few months, was the sister of the 2nd Marquess of Hastings…
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