Empress and Earl Size:XS: 20 x 15cm Nobby Stiles

Nobby Stiles

25th March 1922

Original is oil on canvas 63

View of an ornate fireplace at east end of the banqueting hall in Ironmongers' Hall

S United States at Le Havre

Empress and Earl Size:XS: 20 x 15cm Nobby Stiles'Empress and Earl', 1876. The Conservative Prime Minister, Disraeli, accepts the title of Earl of Beaconsfield from Her Majesty, Queen Victoria. At the beginning of 1876, he had been instrumental in pushing the Royal Titles Bill through parliament, a Bill that gave Victoria the new title of Empress of India. So, one good turn deserved another. Disraeli had previously been offered a title, which he had refused. He had more recently been offered a