Some supermodels with university degrees are Lily Cole, who has a “Double First” honors BA from Cambridge, Brooke Shields, who has a BA in French Literature from Princeton, and Laura Shields, with a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Leeds University.
Laura Secord was a Canadian who was living in an area of Upper Canada occupied by US troops during the War of 1812. Learning of a planned attack by the Americans on the British, she walked approximately 20 miles to alert the British commander, allowing time for the British and Hurons to prepare a defence from the US attack.
In her old age, she was awarded £100 as a recognition of her service by Edward, Prince of Wales, during his visit to the Canadas.
Off-play: looks like you’re right, Elendil’s Heir. Should be GCB: Order of the Bath - Wikipedia
The last native Welshman to be Prince of Wales, at least according to legend, was Owain Glyndŵr. On 16 September 1400, he was proclaimed Prince of Wales by his supporters, and held parliaments at Harlech Castle and elsewhere during his revolt, which encompassed all of Wales. It was not until 1409 that his revolt in quest of Welsh independence was suppressed by Henry IV.
Owain Glyndŵr appears in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, as Owen Glendower. He is portrayed as a superstitious braggart, mocked by Henry Percy, who is also known as Hotspur.
Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?
Glendower: Why, I can teach you, cousin, to command the devil.
Hotspur: And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil— By telling the truth. Tell truth and shame the devil.
Not sure if Louisa Adams, John Quincy’s wife, was a U.S. citizen at birth (born in London to an American father and a British mother) or was subsequently naturalized: Louisa Adams - Wikipedia
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Four ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Hotspur after the nickname of Sir Henry Percy, the most recent of which was an H-class destroyer launched in 1936, then decommissioned in 1948 and transferred to the Dominican Republic.
Tottenham Hotspur F.C. are currently playing in Wembley Stadium while their new home pitch is being built on the former site of their traditional home of White Hart Lane. Tottenham were the first club in the 20th century to achieve the League and FA Cup Double, winning both competitions in the 1960–61 season. After successfully defending the FA Cup in 1962, in 1963 they became the first British club to win a UEFA club competition – the European Cup Winners’ Cup.
Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (R-Mass.) led opposition in the U.S. Senate to ratification of the League of Nations treaty backed by President Woodrow Wilson. Lodge was a lifelong friend of Theodore Roosevelt, one of Wilson’s predecessors in the White House. Wilson and Roosevelt, although both progressive on many issues, became political foes in the 1910s.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. was actually the grandson of Henry Cabot Lodge. In 1960, Vice President Richard Nixon chose Lodge as his running mate in the presidential election, but the Republican ticket lost the election. In 1964, while serving as the U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, Lodge won the Republican New Hampshire primary, despite not having declared his candidacy nor doing any active campaigning. However, he won only one more state primary and Barry Goldwater ultimately won the presidential nomination.
Henry and Edward are the two most frequent names of English/British kings, with eight each. There could have been a Henry IX.
James I’s oldest son was Prince Henry, but he died around age 20. He was thought to have been a promising young man who would have made a good king.
Instead, James was succeeded by his second son, Charles. We all know how well that turned out.
Not in play: Louisa Adams was born in 1775, when her father would have been classified as a British “subject” (the term citizen was not used then) born in the American colonies, rather than as an American.
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In an era of strong English prejudice against Ireland, Charlotte Brontë tried to downplay her Irish roots. Her father was one of the many children of Hugh Brunty, a poor farmhand in County Down, and changed his name to Brontë, hiding his Irish origin and connecting himself with Admiral Horatio Nelson, who had been honored with the title Duke of Bronté. In Jane Eyre, the title character weeps at the possibility of being sent to Ireland to serve as governess to the daughters of Mrs. Dionysus O’Gall of Bitternut Lodge, Connaught.
Hugh Capet is considered the founder of the French monarchy. He succeeded the last Carolingian king. All subsequent French monarchs are descended from him ( subject of course to the usual qualifications about patrilineal descent 
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When Louis XVI was on trial during the French Revolution a millenium later, he was named on the indictment as “Citizen Capet”.
Louis I was the son of Charlemagne and reigned from 813-840, after Charlemagne ruled from 800. He was also King of Aquitaine, a Duchy that was in present-day western, central, and southern France, from 781.
Eleanor of Aquitaine has been played many times on stage and screen. She is a minor character in films about Robin Hood and Ivanhoe, and in some of them she was played by Jill Esmond (Laurence Olivier’s first wife), Siân Phillips, Linda Bellingham and Eileen Atkins. In the 1968 film, The Lion in Winter, Eleanor is the leading female role, played by Katharine Hepburn; the film was based on a Broadway play with Rosemary Harris originating the part. A 2003 TV film version of The Lion in Winter starred Glenn Close as Eleanor.
One Beatles song where none of the band members played instruments on it is Eleanor Rigby. It was an octet of studio musicians, comprising four violins, two violas, and two cellos.
Rigby, Idaho, USA, is most famous for being the “birthplace of television”, a title the city can attribute to a high school student named Philo Taylor Farnsworth. Farnsworth drew up his first blue-prints of a television while he was a resident. Later he invented the vacuum tube television display. Original tubes from Farnsworth’s early experiments were on display at the Rigby High School for many years.
Rigby ID is 40 miles NE of the Idaho Potato Museum in Blackfoot ID: http://idahopotatomuseum.com/. It explains the history and cultivation of potatoes.
Not in play: I went last August, after the eclipse, and the museum is at the same time informative, interesting, and a little corny.
Before the “Columbian Exchange” of the 1500s saw the spread of varieties of crops around the world, there were no potatoes in Ireland, no oranges in Florida, no bananas in Central and South America, no paprika in Hungary, no coffee in Colombia, no pineapples in Hawaii, no rubber trees in Africa, no chili peppers in Thailand and no tomatoes in Italy. In fact, tomatoes were regarded for centuries as possibly poisonous ornamental plants and the combination of tomato sauce with pasta was developed only in the 1800s.
After the potato was introduced to Ireland, it soon became the #1 food source of the working class. The climate is well-suited for the cultivation of the potato, and some historians believe that the potato is the chief reason for the doubling of the Irish population (from 4 million to 8 million) in the years 1780 to 1840. When the potato blight hit Ireland in the 1840s and ruined the potato crops for several years, almost 1 million Irish died from starvation or disease, and over 1 million emigrated, mostly to the United States.
John F. Kennedy’s ancestors on his mother’s side were Fitzgeralds, from the rural County Limerick village of Bruff in western Ireland. Between 1846 and 1855, some of them went to the U.S. to escape the devastating potato famine.
Limerick Football Club is an association football club based in Limerick, Ireland who play in the League of Ireland Premier Division.