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Future PM, the 3rd Duke of Grafton, had superb friends in high places from an early age. In 1757, George II told the 21 year old: 'I always honoured and loved your grandfather, and lament his loss. I wish you may be like him; I hear that you are a very good boy.' #LuckyDuke
For #NationalHedgehogDay here are the #HeraldicHedgehogs of the Harris family, Earls of Malmesbury (image: wiki media) #HedgehogAttitudes
@Jo_History And here is Colbert presenting members of the Academy of Sciences to Louis XIV (image: @CVersailles)
We need more heralds on morning television!! Thanks again to @AlastairBruce_ and @KayBurley for brightening up Monday morning! (Image: alamy) https://t.co/aU8ro9JZtl
Following the English victory at the Battle of Flodden #otd 1513 the commander, Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, was restored as 2nd Duke of Norfolk and the Howard arms gained a remarkable augmentation...#poorlion