House of Peers
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Prominent members of the Diet and the House of Peers said privately that the government must fall.
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A moment later General Sir Brian Horrocks, Black Rod himself, knocked three times on their lobby door and, bowing, commanded "this honorable House to wait upon Her Majesty immediately in the House of Peers."
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The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well.
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On "ladies day" last week the visitors' gallery of the House of Peers was filled with some of the Empire's fairest women, including 45 students of the Tokyo brides' school.
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A motion to this effect was introduced to the House of Peers by Lord Holland, in the month of March, 1817.
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne
