Duchy

Wedding guessedPippa MiddletonThe middle classes enjoyed a collective parasexual thrill this week as not only did Camilla turn up on The Archers to spread the word about Duchy Original shortbread and osteoporosis, but news of the first potential fissures in the royal wedding planning seeped out.

This Week: Nick Clegg, Larry the Downing Street cat, Pippa Middleton 2011

After Holland, attention turns to The Grand Duchy, which is holding its referendum on 10 July.

And then to Luxembourg Richard 2005

All the Polish provinces which Frederic William had acquired in the partition of 1772 were disunited from his kingdom, and erected into a separate territory, to be called the Duchy of Warsaw, and were placed under the rule of the King of Saxony, who was to be allowed an open road through the Prussian province of Silesia.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

In 883 Guido II united under his sway the entire dukedom, which from this time was called the Duchy of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

As the Duchy was a fief of the empire, the two parties made interest, by intrigue, threats, and solicitations, at the court of the Emperor Ferdinand II.; the former urging him to grant the investiture to the new Duke, the latter to refuse it, and even assist in banishing him from the State.

Chapter V 1909

Castles were besieged, cities sacked, and fertile fields laid waste; and in that northern section of France known as the Duchy of Normandy the clash and crush of conflict raged the fiercest around the person of one brave-hearted but sorely troubled little man of twelve -- William, Lord of Rouen, of the Hiesmos and of Falaise, and Duke of Normandy.

Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times Elbridge Streeter Brooks 1874

However, the fact that the tribunal ruled that the Duchy is a "public authority" under the terms of the EIR means that future challenges under FOI legislation are more likely to succeed.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011

a certain Big Kingdom we hear a great deal about now -- in fact the Duchy is a dependency of the Big Kingdom -- more than that, the so-called Ruth

Charred Wood Francis Clement Kelley 1909

The "Duchy" of Burgundy, seized by Louis the Eleventh immediately after the death of Charles the Bold, had, indeed, been incorporated into the French realm; but the "Free County" of

The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

"Since 1399 [the landed estate known as the Duchy of Lancaster] passed to each reigning

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