The King and the Catholics by Antonia Fraser

Author:Antonia Fraser
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2018-09-24T16:00:00+00:00

*1  Their daughter Angela Burdett-Coutts would be the celebrated nineteenth-century philanthropist.

*2  Theoretically he was the heir presumptive; the word ‘presumptive’ indicated that if the King managed to have another child lawfully begotten in some new marriage, the Duke would be displaced; but that, frankly, was not thought likely or even possible by anyone.

*3  The name lasted just under a century: in 1920 it was renamed Dun Laoghaire.

*4  In a book published in the 1960s the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm made the point that this was the only Western nationalist movement organized in a coherent form, before 1848, genuinely based on the masses.

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