The offence being 'intent' to rape and not 'attempted' rape. As they discussed menus, guest lists and ways to keep boring guests at arms length, they became closer. Such behaviour from a monarch who has spent a lifetime shielding her emotions from her subjects is unprecedented. Pictured: Lord Terence Plunket with his wife and eldest son Patrick. and is in such love with him as in the open sight of the people often he will clasp him about the neck with his arms and kiss him, wrote one royal informant of their relationship. Edward II, who ruled from 1307-1327, is one of Englands less fondly remembered kings. When the Queen discovered she needed a tiara for a formal occasion and found the Buckingham Palace safe was locked, he raced away and came back with a Plunket family heirloom. He was the one member of her staff who could talk to her on equal terms. For the only time in her life, Her Majesty had a hand in writing an obituary for The Times, stressing Plunkets unselfish service and duty. And yet, she had these very intense, close friendships with women in her household, Harris said. Younger sons of the monarch have customarily been given dukedoms at the time of their marriage, and experts had suggested the former royal dukedoms of Cambridge and Sussex as the most likely to be granted to Prince Edward. I used your link above (if anyone is interested). 3 The English royals in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales and in Europe acknowledge Queen Elizabeth II as 'The Maid' because she is the daughter of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon's maid and she is the artifical insemination daughter of Winston Churchill. They laughed together a lot, especially during those crisis years. THOMAS Sir Lord Plunkett of Rathmore 1496-1571 - Ancestry The Crown: Was the Queen in love with Lord 'Porchie' Porchester? When his parents were killed in an air accident in 1938, Plunket succeeded to the family peerage (created in 1827) as Baron Plunket.
