#earl of sunderland

[unanchored-ship]

SUNDY!!!

made him oddly butterfly based

[defensivelee]

card motif inspired designs are overused but im gonna do it for sunderland anyway

[bigboipyromaniac]

Fuck it man im tired of not seeing any love for some of my favorite characters . (And also something that will help me with my english)

Here's some character that yall can request.

Doom slayer (doom)

Postal dude (postal)

Not important (hatred)

Albert Wesker ( resident evil )

Billy Coen (resident evil)

Luis sera (resident evil)

Eddie Gluskin (Outlast)

Walter Sullivan (silent hill)

Harry mason (silent hill)

James Sunderland ( silent hill)

Henry Townshend (silent hill)

James "Cash" Earl (Manhunt)

Hank J Wimbleton (madness combat)

Sanford (madness combat)

Deimos (madness combat)

Dante Sparda (Devil May Cry) (Reboot)

Vergil Sparda (Devil May Cry) (Reboot)

Nero Sparda (Devil May Cry)

V (Devil May Cry 5)

Would update if I get obsessed with another character

Here's some thing I won't do🚫

Scat/waterplay

Vore

Incest (half siblings, full siblings, or not blood related but still siblings) ( or parents)

Ped0 (guy….)

Things I'm fine with

Nsfw

Fluff

Angst

Literally anything

(Just keep it tame :) )

Love yall ❤️

-Pyro

[warwickroyals]

The order of precedence in the Kingdom of Sunderland is the  hierarchy for members of the royal family. It determines members of the royal family, their relevance, and their relationship to the sovereign. It also serves as the formal ranking used at the royal court during acts of state, other than that it entails no official status or special privileges. Determining factors include, but are not limited to, birth order, place in the line of succession, distance from the reigning monarch, and gender.

The order of precedence for male members of the royal family is:

The Sovereign: Louis V

The Prince of Danforth: James (died 2017), Nicholas (since 2017)

The Sovereign’s younger sons: The Duke of Woodbine and The Duke of Sherbourne

The Sovereign’s grandsons: Prince Alexander of Danforth, Prince Samuel of Woodbine, Prince Arthur of Woodbine

The Sovereign’s brother(s): The Duke of Pape

The Sovereign’s uncles: All the male-line uncles of Louis V predeceased his reign

The Sovereign’s nephews: Prince John, Earl of Donlands and Prince Jacob of Pape

The Sovereign’s cousins: Frederick Warfield, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield, The Honourable George Warfield (died 2018), William Mornington, 2nd Duke of Wellesley and St. Clair (died 1992)

The order of precedence for female members of the royal family:

The Queen Consort: The Queen

Queens dowager: Queen Katherine (died 2018), Queen Anne (died 1972)

The Princess of Danforth: Tatiana (until 2017),

The Dowager Princess of Danforth: Tatiana (since 2017), Ruby (died 2006)

Wives of the Sovereign's younger sons: The Duchess of Woodbine (divorced 2018), The Duchess of Sherbourne

The Sovereign's daughter: The Princess Jacqueline, Countess Belmont

Wives of the Sovereign's grandsons: As of 2028, the Sovereign's four grandsons remain unmarried

The Sovereign's granddaughters: Princess Imogen of Sherbourne, Lady Kathryn Belmont, Lady Mia Belmont

Wives of the sovereign's brothers: The Duchess of Pape

The Sovereign's sisters: The current Sovereign has no sisters.

Wives of the Sovereign's uncles: The Duchess of Glencairn (died 1988)

The Sovereign's aunts: The Princess Elizabeth, Countess of Chesterfield (died 1995) and The Princess Alice, Duchess of Wellesley and St. Clair (died 1998)

Wives of the Sovereign's nephews: Angela, Countess of Donlands, and Princess Jacob of Pape

The Sovereign's niece: Princess Jillian of Pape, Mrs. Finley

Wives of the sovereign's cousins: Paulina Warfield, Countess of Chesterfield, The Honourable Evelyn Warfield (died 2027)

The Sovereign's cousins: Princess Mary of Glencairn, Mrs. Belgrave, Princess Frances of Glencairn, Mrs. Greirson, Princess Valerie of Glencairn, Mrs. Oberon, Lady Christabel Argyll

[garadinervi]

Seeing in Tongues, Edited and Designed by James Knight, Steel Incisors, 2023 (book here) (pdf here)

An anthology of contemporary visual poetry, including work by Muhammed Yusuf Aktekin, Brian Baker, Gary Barwin, Jay Besemer, Richard Biddle, C D Boyland, ReVerse Butcher, Kenneth M Cale, Susie Campbell, Richard Carter, Burak Ş Çelik, Theodoros Chiotis, George Clutterbuck, Madelaine Culver, Amanda Earl, Alexis Fedorjaczenko, Emma Filtness, S J Fowler, Sylee Gore, Arden Hunter, Victoria Kaye, James Kearns, Robert Frede Kenter, Laura Kerr, Michelle Moloney King, James Knight, Ayşe Kongur, Emma Levin, Emma Mitchell, Bob Modem, Sophia Mold, Morphic Rooms, Mette Norrie, Michael L Orr, Michelle Penn, Konstantinos Papacharalampos, Astra Papachristodoulou, Dan Power, Dave Read, Imogen Reid, Rasiqra Revulva, Hakan Şarkdemir, J P Seabright, Rachel Smith, Chris Stephenson, Samuel Strathman, Nic Stringer, Stephen Sunderland, Michael Sutton, Simon Tyrrell, Hayriye Ünal, Nico Vassilakis, Maggs Vibo, Martin Wakefield & Bob Modem, Katy Wimhurst, Paul Woodford, Mark Wynne and Jill Zheng

[horizon-verizon]

I always laugh when TG state Aegon III couldn’t possibly have gotten his claim from Rhaenyra because she was never officially recognized as queen. Who did Henry VII (founder of the Tudor dynasty) get his claim from ? Margaret Beaufort, his mother who was never queen. And Henry VII’s claim to the throne was incredibly weak; Margaret Beaufort was only the granddaughter of an illegitimate grandson of Edward III who was explicitly disinherited. 

Who is Margaret Beaufort descended from? She comes from Jon of Gaunt's, the Duke of Lancaster, line, and Jon of Gaunt was the 3rd surviving son of Edward III.

This is a family tree of it so things can make sense for people:

Text to accompany for who can't inspect the image above:

Edward III was of the House Plantagenet, the house where both the houses York & Lancaster came from.

Jon of Gaunt's son--John Beaufort, the 1st Earl of Somerset--himself had a son, who was John Beaufort, the 1st Duke of Somerset. (A lot of "John's"; it was how they sort of made their heirs more legitimate of the power they inherited, by reminding everyone that they were of John of Gaunt's descent. Like how royals do.) Earl John's mother was Jon of Gaunt's mistress Katherine Swynford & they had Earl John before they married, so for a time, Earl John was illegitimate. Some people would say that this makes him eternally illegitimate, but this is a digression.

Margaret Beaufort was Duke John's daughter, but Duke John was born (c.1373) before his parents married (c.1396). Thus Henry VII (her son) did have a wishy-washy claim to the throne through her…yet he still got to become king. Aegon III's claim through Rhaenyra, comparatively, looks a hell of a lot stronger!

And I don't know why they keep ignoring that in the Targ succession list in the back of F&B, it specifically marks Aegon III as "Rhaenyra's son". Not "Viserys' grandchild" nor "Daemon's son". It's "Rhaenyra's son". Compare this to all other Targ kings and who the text ties them to connote where they get the legitimacy of their claim from:

And then people come back asking about how Daeron II has his claim go under Naerys instead of Aegon IV or Aemon, trying to say that this list couldn't possibly show us where these people officially take their claim. I need people to also know that while women/girls do not statistically inherit seats of power like men/boys, but:

what anon says above, which means men have also claimed stuff through a woman related to them somehow when it was convenient AND women have/could receive seats [next point]

in the ASoIaF universe, Rohanne Webber, Agnes Blackwood, Marla Sunderland, Jeyne Arryn, Lyanna Mormount, etc are all women who have before, during, and after Aegon's Conquest have inherited the leadership of their house. Aerea Targaryen, Shiera Blackwood, Aelora Targaryen, and Shireen Baratheon ALL have been named as a man's heir throughout the ASoIaF universe/history! Girls/women are still technically candidates for leadership in Westeros and always have been! But not only that...

the point of a claim is to trace one's blood to an aristocrat FIRST, then gender, with a preference for males but a clear social willingness to use a female relation!

Robert Baratheon allowed & benefited from maesters using his Targaryen grandmother's Targness to add to the legitimacy of his own claim to rule and his war after he won (his grandmother was Rhaelle, daughter of Aegon V & Queen Betha Blackwood [quote below from ACoK, Catelyn II])

[newtonsheffield]

Ohhh! Can Mary's conversation with young farmer Anthony?

Ohhh what did Mary say to Anthony??? you can't leave us hanging like this, please?

We can see just a little from mary's point of view

Mary Sharma was not a foolish woman, no matter what her mother and father would have liked to be believed. she had sensed her daughters slight apprehension, when they'd come to London to make her debut. Even as Mary's own mother had sighed,

"She is a very pretty girl, though. One can only hope she makes better choices than you did."

"I'm very happy, with the choices I've made Mama." She'd sighed, watching Kate across the from, her brow furrowed as she spoke with a Mr Brandson, Mary thought he might have been, Kate's eyes rolling as she walked away.

She watched Kate grow more and more dissatisfied, paying less and less interest, and then she saw it. The first real, genuine smile she'd seen since they arrived in London. Right there as Kate stood on the street, talking to a working class man, a farmer from his broad chest and the sun on his skin. His horse meant for work, not riding for pleasure. And there was something so beautiful about the smile on kate's face, she felt guilty for pulling her away.

"Kate? Darling, come along, Appa and Edwina are expecting us for tea."

Kate had smiled again as they's walked away, kept smiling the whole way home, looking back over her shoulder as though she might see the handsome young man standing there still.

"How was the duke today?" Edwina asked curiously as they sat down to tea her head tilted

"Who?" Kate asked a little distractedly.

"The man you met when you left the house, Kate." Edwina sighed far too exasperatedly for a girl of just ten.

"Oh, he was lovely." the same tiny smile on kate's face as she looked away that Mary was certain wasn't for the duke of sunderland.

And she saw it again as they sat down to break their fasts the next morning, the hem of her dress muddy from the morning rides Mary was saw Kate thought no one knew about. A secret smile on her face that Mary was sure was for the man they'd met that afternoon.

Mary felt guilty, of course she did for rising early, watching from the window as Kate disappeared with her hair flying out behind her and a small smile on Mary's own face as she watched her come back, happier and happier every day. Mary would watch as Kate would run outside, the handsome young man already waiting for her by the gate, a smile on his face as he caught her around the waist, spinning her around in the light rain, their lips meeting in a tender kiss and a sigh built in Mary's chest. The memory rising in her of when she'd been the debutante, a diamond of the first water who'd mistaken a former clerk, a widower, for the Earl of Davenport and been half in love with him before her Mama had appeared at her shoulder tugging her away to introduce her to the real Earl.

And she'd sworn, she'd sworn to herself when she'd stood in the church and married the love of her life that her daughters wouldn't have to threaten to runaway and they wouldn't have to make the choice she did when she'd finally stood in front of her father with tears in her eyes and spat at him You can't send him away papa. I won't marry that earl and I'm pregnant. What will you do with my bastard then?! They would be free to choose. And she'd made the same promise when they'd left Somerset and she made it again, to herself as she watched Kate stand in that courtyard with tears in her eyes and her fingers twisting through his hair. Right there in the rain, her voice aching.

"Let me talk to my Appa. Let me talk to him, tell him I want to marry you and if he won't let us I'll run away with you anyway because I love you and I want to be your wife, Anthony."

And as Kate walked away Mary made her choice. Truly, she'd made it years ago, and perhaps it was different than almost every woman of the ton would have made. But Mary had never been them.

"Just a moment, young man."

The man, Anthony, Kate had called him, banged right into the stable door on the way to his horse, scrambling in the mud in an effort to find his feet, his eyes wide, terrified.

"I-I-I'm sorry, my Lady, I took a wrong turn, I thought."

"No you didn't." Mary said softly, holding out her hand to help him up. "You know who I am?"

The man's hand shook, as he took her hand, getting to his feet, squaring his shoulders, tilting his chin proudly. "Lady Mary Sharma."

She hummed, "Yes, the mother of the girl who's been sneaking our to see you Mr-?"

"Bridgerton, Anthony Bridgerton, ma'am." He clenched his jaw for a moment, so young with his hair falling in his eyes.

"And you are how old?"

"I'll be Nineteen this September, Ma'am." So Young.

"You are not from London, Mr Bridgerton. What is your occupation?"

He cleared his throat, "I'm from Aubrey in Kent. My family owns a farm there and I work the land with my father."

Mary hummed, "You are not a gentleman."

He took a deep breath. "I am not, and I realise I have asked no permission to court your daughter but I cannot find it in me to apologise for doing such." There was kindness in him, she could see, had seen it in his smile every day when he looked at Kate, Pride as well as he stood in front of her ready to face the consequences. "I love her, Lady Mary, I've asked her to be my wife and Kate means to accept."

Mary's heart hammered in her chest, aching for her daughter, falling in love without her, too scared to tell her. "Are you a good man, sir?"

His jaw clenched. "I like to think so, Ma'am. I work hard, and I don't have much but anything I have I will give to her. She loves me, and I love her, if you send me away I will-"

Mary cleared her throat, smiling gently. "You misunderstand me, Mr Bridgerton. I don't mean to do anything but help you."

"Lady Mary I-"

"I was young once as well, Mr Bridgerton. Young and in love with a man whom no one wanted for me. My daughter will not make the choices I made, and she won't even know it."

His chest was heaving, stood in the courtyard, his eyes wide, a little hopeful. "I'm not sure how you can help."

Mary sighed, picking his cap up from the ground for him. "Mr Bridgerton, you are a very sweet boy, but you will learn, a smart man listens to his wife. Have you any money?"

"Yes ma'am, I-"

"My husband will arrange for you to come in three days time. Got to the Tailor's next to the tea shop across from the far end of the park, give him my name and he will make you a morning coat. If you've not enough money tell him I will settle the remainder of you bill."

He stared at her, this boy who'd been so handsome he'd carried off her daughter without even meaning to, hardly daring to hope. "Lady Mary, I don't know how to thank you."

"You will be a good husband to my daughter. That is how you will thank me."

"I will. I will make her a good husband, I promise. I'll make you glad you helped me. I promise."

Mary sighed, "Good, now be off with you."

"Sweet boy." Mary sighed as she looked at her future son in law, scrambling onto his horse and she went inside and got to work

"The Duke of Sunderland has asked for Kate's hand." Tharman sighed as they settled to bed that night, the candles burning low around him. "I've no idea what to do. I don't even think she likes him."

"She doesn't." Mary sighed, setting her book aside. "I'm going to tell you something and you are going to remember that your second daughter was very nearly born the wrong side of the blanket."

Tharman froze, barely breathing as he said "Put me out of my Misery then."

"Kate is going to come to you tomorrow and tell you she's been meeting a young man in secret and-"

"She's been what?!"

Mary sighed, "Yes, Darling, when she goes out riding in the morning."

"When she-?"

"Goes out riding, Tharman, keep up. His name is Anthony, Mr Bridgerton, He's a Farmer from Kent and she's accepted his proposal."

Her husband stared at her open mouthed in shock, his mind taking a moment to catch up. "I'm not sure what I'm-?"

"You're going to give her a little bit of a hard time and then give in rather easily. Darling. She loves him, and that's the end."

"Do I have a choice?"

"No, Darling." She kissed his cheek "He'll be calling in a few days time."

"Am I at least allowed to ask what he's like?" He sighed exasperatedly.

"He's very handsome, I can see why he's turned her head."

"I don't want to hear anymore, actually." He grumbled. "God, this is just like Kate. She's so strong willed."

"Rather. we did quite well with her."

"Yes, we did."

[kwebtv]

The First Churchills - BBC Two - Septembr 27, 1969 - December 13, 1969

Period Drama (12 Episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Susan Hampshire as Sarah Jennings Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough

John Neville as John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

James Villiers as King Charles II

John Westbrook as King James II

Sheila Gish as Queen Mary, wife to James II

Alan Rowe as King William III

Lisa Daniely as Queen Mary II

Margaret Tyzack as Queen Anne

Roger Mutton as Prince George of Denmark

Robert Robinson as King Louis XIV

John Standing as Sidney Godolphin

Frederick Peisley as Lord Shaftesbury

Job Stewart as Lord Shrewsbury

James Kerry as James, Duke of Monmouth

Richard Pearson as Robert Harley

Moira Redmond as Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland

Richard Warwick as Francis Godolphin

Polly Adams as Henrietta Churchill

Graham Armitage as John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Colin Bean as Lord Russell

Consuela Chapman as Duchess of Portsmouth

Michael Culver as Charles Churchill

Andria Lawrence as Nell Gwyn

Michael Lynch as D'Artagnan:

Kay Patrick as Henrietta Wentworth

Arthur Pentelow as Marquess of Carmarthen

Bruce Purchase as Duke of Buckingham

John Ringham as Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester

Nicholas Smith as Titus Oates

Michael Attwell as Henry St John

Jill Balcon as Abigail Masham

Freddie Wilson as James Stuart, the Old Pretender

Yvonne Antrobus as Anne Churchill

Robert Mill as Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland

William Job as Adam de Cardonnel

Bernard Taylor as William Cadogan

Francis Wallis as John Churchill, Marquess of Blandford

The First Churchills was the first series telecast by PBS under the title of Masterpiece Theatre from January 10, 1971 - March 28, 1971

[jvstheworld]

My Ted Lasso Re-watch: S2E1 (part 3)

Goodbye Earl

Ted's wiping of the nail polish and his butt still hurts. So I thought about this, and they would have had to get the shot of Dani kicking the ball at Ted a few times. Obviously it would be a prop ball so it didn't hurt as much, but still after a few takes of trying to get it right, it you would start to ache. And who's to say it hit his butt every take. He might missed a few times.

Nate's harshness is really coming through now.

Ted said Beard's name and we all kissed it because we thought it was another reference. And yes it is definitely believable that Beard is only referred to as Beard. It's not just a TV show thing where people are just called by their last names. I've had friends who I have done that to. Two of them had the same first name, so calling them by their last names just made things less confusing.

So, Dani has the yips. Ted and Beard's reactions to it being said out loud are hilarious, as is the fact that the players and Will in the locker room all react to the door being slammed.

I don't know Ted's sports references. I'm as lost as Nate and Higgins.

Well, Ted you are living in a foreign country. One that would describe American Football as rugby but with a shit load of padding.

Ted is apprehensive about therapy because of his own time in therapy (You suck, Dr Jacob) . He agrees to it while shaking his head.

Roy is suffering. I would be too if I had to listen to that story. We like Martin Short in this house. He's definitely going to need more drinks to survive.

Roy sees through John's bullshit. And just how boring he really is.

Does anyone else get the slight impression that John looked down on Roy for saying that he coaches kids football? Even though Roy enjoys it, and is a good coach, and has experience from being a 9 year old who got scouted by Sunderland. The man is happy enough and trying to figure out what he's doing next with his life, don't judge.

Keeley was being sneaky and underhanded by bringing up the pundit stuff. Though, it does help him realise where he belongs, so it does eventually become a good thing that he did it.

I still want to see Roy's retirement speech.

To Earl. He was a good boy. I'm going to keep saying it every time it gets brought up.

Michelle had been seeing Dr Jacob as her personal therapist for a while before couples counselling. So Dr Jacob would already know a bunch of stuff about Ted, from Michelle's perspective, which made him form his own opinion about Ted before their first session. They should have seen a separate therapist for couples counselling. Dr Jacob should have stayed as Michelle's personal therapist and referred them to someone else who could have helped them. If not, then he should have done private sessions with Ted to understand his side of things before bringing them both in. Ted was being set up for failure because before he even spoke in their first session he was seen as the problem. Because instead of helping them both with their issues, they just told Ted that he was doing everything wrong and making Michelle miserable. Which is shitty therapy. And made worse by the fact that later on Dr Jacob and Michelle are dating. He might not be her therapist anymore, but he still had intimate knowledge of her relationship and personal life. The problem is, did these feelings occur during the time when he was treating Michelle or when he stopped being her therapist and they hadn't seen each other for a while? Because if it's during his time as her therapist then it adds another layer of why he's such an ass, because he could have been trying to get rid of Ted. Any way you shape this, Dr Jacob does not come out of it like a Prince.

I don't know why, but every time Beard talks about never dating another dancer, the lyrics to George Michael's Careless Whisper come into my head.

'All people are different people.' That is a good line. I might have to steal that for myself at some point. Just because he had one bad experience with one therapist, doesn't mean the next is going to be the same. And Dr Sharon is so much better than Dr Jacob. She actually helps Ted, which Dr Jacob never did!

I need the full story of Beard's life. All of it.

I fucking love Roy's little rant to Rebecca. Yeah, John is fine, and that's nice. But where's the actual spark of attraction? She's playing safe because she got so hurt by Rupert, I get that. But she deserves so much more than just safe and fine. Don't settle for less because you want to play it safe to avoid being hurt again. Find someone who makes you feel safe because they love you and makes you feel like you've been struck by lightning and wants to be with you.

The greatest thing about Roy Kent, he won't bullshit you.

[skippyv20]

No mention of Prince William !

Telegraph Article 

'The Spencer family are known for leading with their hearts, not their heads'

The Prince is the latest in a long line of rebels – a legacy stretching for centuries

ByKate Wills18 December 2022 • 8:00am

A headstrong redhead causing scandalous rifts with the Royal family and courting publicity all the while. No, not just Harry, but many of his great-great-great-great-ancestors, too. 

In his Netflix show, Harry has been reasserting how much he is his “mother’s son”, making decisions that are “all heart”. And although it seems like Harry is breaking with tradition by starting a new life in California, in many ways the Prince is actually just following in the footsteps of his maternal family, the Spencers, living out a rebellious legacy that stretches back through the centuries.

“The Spencers are difficult,” the Queen Mother once observed to a friend, according to Tina Brown’s biography The Diana Chronicles. And that’s certainly one way of putting it. Harry’s family tree on the Spencer side is full of unconventional disruptors who craved glamour, challenged the status quo and ripped up the royal rule book.

“Harry’s lineage is a really fascinating mix of royalty, aristocracy and glamorous, rich heiresses,” says historian Dr Carolyn Harris, author of Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting. “The house of Spencer can be traced all the way back to sheep farmers in medieval times.” But there’s royal blood in the Spencer clan, too.

“He is descended from not one, but two illegitimate children of King Charles II of England: Henry Fitzroy and Charles Lennox, via two of his great-great-grandmothers, Adelaide Seymour and Rosalind Bingham,” adds Harrison. 

“Then also on his mother’s side there are American links, so in a way, Harry is getting back to his roots by settling in California. Diana’s maternal great-grandmother, Frances Ellen Work, was an American heiress who divorced her husband in 1891 on the grounds of desertion. It was a high-profile case that appeared in all the newspapers at the time.”

Albert Edward John Spencer in 1922 with his daughter, Lady Anne Spencer, (centre), and his sister, Lady Margaret Spencer CREDIT: Hulton Archive

Harry clearly identifies very strongly as a Spencer, Harris points out, “and we can draw many parallels between the unconventional path that he’s taken and that of his ancestors, as well as the clever way many of them used the media to their own advantage”.

For example, one of the first Spencers to cause a royal ruckus was Robert Spencer, the 2nd Earl of Sunderland. In the 1670s, he orchestrated King Charles II’s secret pact with France and also became one of James II’s closest advisers, known for his diplomacy, but also his duplicity.

“Nearly 300 years on, my father would talk about him with an ashamed, resigned chuckle,” Charles, the present Earl Spencer, writes in The Spencers: A Personal History of an English Family. Robert was known to be “cunning, supple [and] shameless” with “a restless and mischievous temper, and an abject spirit”; Harry may be starting a new life in California, but maybe the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

With her rose-gold hair and blue eyes, Lilibet Diana is “very Spencer-like”, according to Harry – just like him and his mum. But that’s not all the youngest member of the Montecito Mountbatten-Windsors stands to inherit from that side of the family. Just as, one day, her young cousins may show traits of the Middleton clan, so Lilibet will undoubtedly find genetics playing a part in her life, just as they have in Harry’s.

“Harry is extremely proud of his Spencer heritage, as was his mother, who spoke to him about it at great length when he was growing up,” says Ingrid Seward, royal commentator and editor of Majesty magazine. “The Spencer family are known for being outspoken, all action, leading with the heart, not the head. Not only does Harry look very Spencer with his red hair, but he calls his aunts Sarah and Jane his ‘red aunts’.”

With the bushy ginger beard he is currently rocking, Harry certainly resembles his ancestor John Spencer, the 19th-century politician who was known as the “Red Earl”. But the Spencer trait of auburn locks – and shaping royal history – can actually be traced a few generations back, to Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough.

Played by Rachel Weisz in the Oscar-winning film The Favourite, Sarah started as a maid in the court of James II and became the most powerful woman in England through her manipulative control of Queen Anne. In 1700, Sarah arranged the marriage of her distant relation Charles Spencer, the future 3rd Earl of Sunderland, to her favourite daughter, Anne.

Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Lady Jane Fellowes, who Harry calls his 'red aunts' CREDIT: Shutterstock

Centuries before the modern Diana and Prince Charles wed, Sarah attempted to marry her favourite granddaughter – the original Lady Diana – to the broke Frederick, Prince of Wales, with a promise of a £100,000 dowry. The plan fell through after King George II was warned by his prime minister to find a wife “less politically threatening” for his son.

And Harry’s current family feuds have antecedents. Sarah ended up falling out with her granddaughter Anne and disinheriting her grandson Charles, 5th Earl of Sunderland. Alexander Pope said of her: “Full sixty years the World has been her Trade,/ The wisest Fool much Time has ever made./ From loveless youth to unrespected age,/ No Passion gratify’d except her Rage.” Harry would probably say she just needed a good therapist.

Then there’s Diana’s great-great-great-great-aunt Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire. The daughter of John, 1st Earl Spencer and his wife, Margaret, the teenage Georgiana became a sensation in 18th-century London. But she found that her cold, older husband was not as interested in her as everyone else (remind you of anyone?)

Like Harry in his youth, Georgiana had a reputation for hard partying – she was a gambling addict with a laudanum dependency who was always having to borrow money. Scandal turned to calamity when Georgiana became pregnant by the future prime minister Charles Grey and she was banished to France.

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, was famous for her beauty, political campaigning, gambling and unorthodox domestic arrangement CREDIT: Hulton Fine Art Collection

But Georgiana set the fashions of the day – popularising French hair powder and tall hairstyles among other trends – and also campaigned tirelessly for the Whig party, while the newspapers documented her every move. “You live so constantly in public you cannot live for your own soul,” her mother, Lady Spencer, wrote to her.

The Spencer tendency to choose passion over propriety is strong in Diana’s immediate family, too. Her mother, the heiress Frances Roche, was quickly disillusioned with country life as a young aristocratic mother. “I’m so bloody bored with opening village fetes,” she told a friend. It was no wonder that the fiery Frances wanted more from life. “She was very attractive and blonde and sexy with such joie de vivre and fun about her,” a friend told Brown for The Diana Chronicles.

By the 1960s, Frances escaped to London and started an affair with married bon vivant and wallpaper heir Peter Shand Kydd. She separated from Diana’s father and fought for custody of the children but lost, partially due to her own mother, Baroness Fermoy, who testified against her. Social outcasts, the Shand Kydds eventually moved to the coast of Scotland.

Diana’s older sister Lady Sarah McCorquodale also inherited this rebellious Spencer spirit. According to Brown’s book, she was kicked out of boarding school and once rode her horse into her grandmother’s living room. Sarah had her own romance with Prince Charles, and introduced her younger sister to him.

Diana spoke to Harry at great length about his Spencer heritage when he was growing up CREDIT: Tim Graham

Then there’s Diana’s younger brother Charles, who has seven children from three marriages and is known for speaking his mind. At his speech at Diana’s funeral, he famously pledged that “we, your blood family, will do all we can to continue the imaginative and loving way in which you were steering these two exceptional young men, so that their souls are not simply immersed by duty and tradition, but can sing openly, as you planned”.

His daughters are certainly singing their own tune. The model Kitty Spencer, 31, recently wed multimillionaire businessman Michael Lewis, 63 (five years older than her father). “Sometimes I feel like my family should be on The Jerry Springer Show,” she once said. “From the outside, the structure looks so dysfunctional. However, every single member of my family is part of my happiness.”

So, what clues can we glean about Harry’s future from how his famous forebears ended up? Although – like Harry – many of them were banished or exiled or moved abroad, nearly all of them ended up coming back to the royal court. Whether it’s dynasty or destiny, there’s no doubt we can expect many more surprises from this Spencer.

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Fascinating! Thank you!!!! ❤️

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