Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 45

[cahn]

Unfortunately, there was then at Berlin a King who pursued one policy only, who deceived his enemies, but not his servants, and who lied without scruple, but never without necessity.

(from The King's Secret - by Duke de Broglie, grand-nephew of the subject of the book, Comte de Broglie, and grandfather of the physicist) )

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Re: A Bunch of Buckinghams

[luzula]

I have also come across the 19th century Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. *facepalms at name* This is because I have been to Stowe House, where he lived, and there was an exhibit about his father Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (who built up a vast fortune) and him (who squandered it all until he had to go overseas to flee his debts).

The reason I went to Stowe House is because of a connection to Flight of the Heron, obviously, which has a fictional Earl of Stowe.

Re: A Bunch of Buckinghams

[cahn]

WELL at least I am unlikely to confuse the names of the Richards Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville with the names of the other Dukes! (Though again, WHY WITH THE SAME NAMES. That was a rhetorical question. :P )