To date, we have three people who have each won one quiz since I offered tea at the Lords as the prize for anyone winning three quizzes. I am happy to offer tea not only to the first person to win three quizzes, but also the second and third – and possibly more… So keep the answers coming.
This week’s quiz questions:
1. When peers enter the chamber, they bow. To whom or what are they bowing?
2. My father served as Home Secretary.
Each of my parents was elevated to the peerage.
I served in the Cabinet.
Who am I?
1. The Cloth of Estate
2. Baroness Jay of Paddington
1. They bow to the Cloth of Estate
2. Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville
1. The Cloth of Estate, the canpoy over the throne.
2. Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, son of Lord Brooke of Cumnor and Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte.
They bow to the Cloth of Estate
Peter, Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville
1 Cloth of estate
2 Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville who was a SoS in the 80s/90s and son of Lord Brooke of Cumnor (HS 1962-4) & Lady Brooke of Ystradfellte
1. The Cloth of Estate
2. Peter Brooke, Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville
1) Peers bow to the Cloth of Estate
2) Peter Brooke, Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville
1. The Cloth of Estate
2. Peter Brooke, Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville
This has been something of a bumper week for the number of responses and indeed for the number of correct answers. Congratulations to Richard Kaszeta, Jonathan, Chris K, Croft, N Holzapfel, Robin Lewis and Conor McGrath, all of whom correctly identified the Cloth of Estate and Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville. Richard Kaszeta was the first to respond with the correct answers and is therefore this week’s winner.
Kyle Mulholland: Commiserations. Although you were the first to respond, Baroness Jay does not fit all the distinguishing features listed. She served in the Cabinet and her father served as Home Secretary, but only her father was elevated to the peerage.
We now have four people who have each won the quiz over the course of the past four weeks. The roll of honour so far is:
howridiculous
Chris K.
Run Seven
Richard Kaszeta
Oh dear me! In my hasty research I read that Big Jim’s wife was ‘Baroness Callaghan’ and assumed she had been elevated… upon closer inspection, that’s obviously not the case! I’ll try harder next time, m’Lord.
I am not sure I understand what exactly the Cloth of Estate is; I’ve read somewhere that it doesn’t actually physically exist, which would make sense if the name simply recalls a historical artefact. There does not seem to exist an actual cloth behind the throne, and I don’t think the name refers to the canopy (which is simply a canopy, if a very ornate one).