How beautiful they stand!
Amidst their tall ancestral trees,
O'er all the pleasant land.
The deer across their greensward bound
Thro' shade and sunny gleam,
And the swan glides past them with the sound
Of some rejoicing stream.
I wish Noel Coward were around to comment:—Felicia Browne Hemans
Blackwoods Magazine April, 1827
- The stately homes of England,
- How beautiful they stand,
- To prove the upper classes
- Have still the upper hand.
From CityAM, June 17:
King Charles III’s property firm is to invest up to £400m of fresh capital into the UK’s offshore wind supply chain, it has been announced.
The Crown Estate has earmarked £350m for investment into the construction of a new port and supply chain infrastructure it said would support “accelerated delivery of UK offshore wind projects.”
The other £50m will support “early-stage project development,” delivered via a succession of funding rounds.
Investment from The Crown Estate, which manages a £16bn portfolio of land and owns the UK’s seabed, is a big boost for the government as it looks to decarbonise the grid by 2030.
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has suffered a succession of blows in recent months, including the abrupt termination of Ørsted’s contract at Hornsea 4, one of Britain’s biggest-ever offshore wind farms if completed....
....MUCH MORE
The first time we used the Hemans pastiche was in 2011's "Noblesse Oblige: "The aristocrats cashing in on Britain's wind farm subsidies""
Okay, it's not Oblige, it's more like Noblesse, Score!!!
Related:
February 2008 - Queen Elizabeth: Offshore wind farms to generate £100m windfall for Crown Estate
April 2023 - Charles III, King Of England, Had Gas
August 2023 - How King Charles III Came To Own The Seabed
And not really related but possibly of interest, July 2021:
Who Owns England: "The Marquesses and their 100,000 acres"
There is only one Marquess in the English Peerage the rest are either in the Peerage of the U.K or the Peerage of Great Britain. I was always under the assumption that the Marquesses were all subsidiary titles for Dukes but apparently not. Be that as it may be, they all seem to have nice houses....
I would have made a good .
But the closest I could have gotten was Count [Earl]; unfortunately the lack of primogeniture, and descent in the female line put the kibosh on that career move.
