Did you know....

that Sir John Howard's grandson, the 3rd Duke of Norfolk, was a very
good chess player and invented the Queen Sacrifice?

--- In , "Stephen Lark"
<smlark@...> wrote:
>
> that Sir John Howard's grandson, the 3rd Duke of Norfolk, was a very
> good chess player and invented the Queen Sacrifice?
>
I ought to let you know that this was a spoof. The point is that he
twice tried to manipulate Henry VIII by marrying his nieces to the King
and it resulted in their early deaths.