Example sentences of "grandson of charles " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was of course referring to the members of the Legitimist aristocracy , still loyal to ‘ Henry V ’ , the last of the elder Bourbon line , the grandson of Charles X who had been deposed by the Revolution of 1830 and who lived in exile at Frohsdorf in Bohemia . |
| 2 | Two suitably romantic leaders , who escaped in time , now emerged , the 26-year-old third Earl of Derwentwater , a grandson of Charles II by one of his mistresses , who had been brought up with the Old Pretender at St Germain , and become a major landowner in Westmorland , and Thomas Forster , an MP for Northumberland . |
| 3 | CEDRIC Dickens , hale and hearty at 74 and great grandson of Charles , recommends the Christmas tonic , Long Life . |
| 4 | Darwin was himself a painter ( also the great grandson of Charles Darwin ) and he positioned himself in a red-damasked office in the Painting School , yet gave a fair crack of the whip to both art and design . |
| 5 | He was the grandson of Charles Richard Sumner [ q.v. ] , bishop of Winchester . |