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'THIS House believes all bankers should be tied in sacks filled with snakes and thrown into the River Thames." Liberal Democrat economics guru Vince Cable, whose stock has risen while the market has plunged, delighted Westminster this week by discovering that this resolution was put before the House of Commons in the aftermath of the South Sea Bubble in 1720.
Mr Cable didn't, however, uncover the woman who inflated that most notorious of bubbles. She was Sophia Charlotte von Kielmansegg, the Countess of Darlington.See the full content of this document
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My Fat Lady Darlington's Role in Ruin
Sophia was part of the curious coterie that came from Hanover with George I when he claimed the British throne in 1714. She may have been his ille...
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