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kingmaker

[king-mey-ker] / ˈkɪŋˌmeɪ kər /




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They then stopped at the historic Dog and Duck pub, where William went behind the bar and poured a pint of Kingmaker, a pale ale brewed to celebrate the coronation.

From Seattle Times • May 4, 2023

Defensive and self-pitying, Parker narrates this long and gaudily overstuffed tale of a King and his Kingmaker, arguing — unpersuasively — that he isn’t the villain that history has made him out to be.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2022

What possessed Imelda Marcos, the former Philippine first lady and resurgent political operator, to sit for Greenfield’s latest and perhaps most damning portrait, The Kingmaker?

From The Guardian • Nov. 4, 2019

"He had royal blood but it was rather distant," says Prof Michael Hicks, head of history at Winchester University, and author of both Warwick the Kingmaker and the upcoming work The Wars of the Roses.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2010

Ferguson the Kingmaker, who defied three Kings and made three Kings and will yet make a fourth!

From Shrewsbury A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.




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