Celebrities at Home (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Celebrities at Home The first glance at the Duke of Richmond suggests a question interesting to genealogists, naturalists, Scotchmen, and believers in blue blood generally. How comes it that the lineal descendant of Charles Stuart and Louise Renee de Perrencourt de Querouailles is a typical Englishman in face, in figure, in manner, and in mind? 'Rowley' himself, with his long nose and saturnine expression, had but a little drop of English blood in his veins. His mother was a Frenchwoman, his grandmother a Medici. The fair Duchess of Portsmouth in England and of Aubigne in France was a pretty French girl, with the mutine face and hair curled a la bebe made familiar to all by the pencil of Lely. Perhaps the Stuarts were not a strong-enough race to transmit their lineaments to remote posterity as the Berkeley and the Ashleys have done; but the fact remains that the present lord of Goodwood and other broad lands in England and Scotland is, perhaps, the most thorough Englishman in the Cabinet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.