The Spectator, December 4th, 2004
The very model of a modern duke MILES by Gerard Noel Michael Russell, £15.95, pp.176, ISBN 0859552896
Miles Fitzalan-Howard was one of eight children of a fairly distant cousin of the previous two Dukes of Norfolk, and so grew up in the give and take of life in a large family. Up until the age of about 30, he had no great expectation that he would succeed his predecessor, who was married, with four daughters, and might well have produced a son and heir. He had been a rather average schoolboy at Ampleforth, excelling neither at work nor games, but 'always cheerful and keen'. He made life-long...
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