Some ancestors went under the axe, including Henry Howard, a Tudor poet much admired by the duke.
ECONOMIST: Duke of Norfolk
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He has to cheat a bit to engineer this result: neither Thomas Cranmer nor Thomas Wriothesley died in the reign of Henry VIII, and Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, although condemned, was miraculously reprieved.
ECONOMIST: Tudor history
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Neither Ron Howard, the Oscar-winning director who played Richie Cunningham, nor Henry Winkler, who played The Fonz, were part of the lawsuit.