...scoffed at his youthful appearance : " A minister without a beard !" " If," replied Rosenkrantz, " my sovereign had known it was a beard you required,...The Protector collapsed, and so the matter ended.* Another Rosenkrantz, Palle, was sent to England as * Among the heroines of this family was Anna, wife...

...if he did not really say, when the ill-mannered " Protector" scoffed at a beardless minister, " If my sovereign had known it was a beard you required,...rate, my beard is of older date than your Protectorate !" Among the families ennobled are many of Scottish descent, whose ancestors settled in Denmark during...