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Rise of England's Landed Gentry Under Tax Burden
DEWITT MACKENZIE notes England's aristocracy faces heavy taxation and dispossession as King George's nephew, the Earl of Harewood, must sell ancestral estates to pay taxes. The loss threatens traditional squire life, with estates passing through multiple hands and tenants, signaling an end of a cherished class and era.
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