Earls’ Sons
E.S. Turner, 20 October 1983
The Man who was Greenmantle: A Biography of Aubrey Herbert
by Margaret FitzHerbert.
Murray, 250 pp., £15, September 1983,0 7195 4067 4 Show More
by Margaret FitzHerbert.
Murray, 250 pp., £15, September 1983,
A Classic Connection
by Michael Seth-Smith.
Secker, 184 pp., £9.95, September 1983,0 436 44705 3 Show More
by Michael Seth-Smith.
Secker, 184 pp., £9.95, September 1983,
“... ripe enough to be king of Albania, a country which twice offered him the throne? After finishing Margaret FitzHerbert’s excellent book the reader may be in two minds; at least King Aubrey would have wielded the sceptre with more panache than Lord Rothermere on the throne of Hungary. Herbert was the son of the fourth Earl of Carnarvon. His ... ”