| CLARENDON | 1st Earl of ___; title of Edward Hyde, a chief adviser to Charles II (9) |
| LICHFIELD | Earl of ___; title of society photographer Thomas Patrick John Anson (9) |
| ROCHESTER | Earl of ___, title of the poet John Wilmot (1647-80) (9) |
| CHOIRBOYS | The ___, title of a 1975 Jospeh Wamburgh novel about the exploits of a group of LA police officers |
| AVON | 1st Earl of_, title of Anthony Eden, prime minister of the UK 1955-57 (4) |
| BEDHOPPER | Edward Hyde principally taken in by dancer - a promiscuous one |
| ESSEX | Earl of ___, title of Robert Devereux, a favourite of Elizabeth I (5) |
| SNOWDON | Earl of ___ , title of Antony Armstrong-Jones, who married Princess Margaret in 1960 (7) |
| MORDECAI | Cousin and adoptive father of Esther who became chief adviser to King Ahasuerus (Esther 2-9) (8) |
| CLARENCE | Duke of _, title of George Plantagenet, brother of Edward IV and Richard III (8) |
| BEACONSFIELD | 1st Earl of ___, title created in 1876 for Benjamin Disraeli (12) |
| COLBERT | French comptroller-general of finances 1661-83; chief adviser to Louis XIV (7) |
| WOLSEY | Orchestrator of the Field of the Cloth of Gold and inventor of the combination of strawberries and cream who was Henry VIII's chief adviser, often called "alter rex" (6) |
| LUDLOW | Lord Rees of ___; title of Martin Rees, astrophysicist who has held the post of Astronomer Royal since 1995 (6) |
| BRABANT | Duke or Duchess of ____ , title of the heir or heiress presumptive to the Belgian throne (7) |
| MONCK | Originally Cromwell's commander-in-chief in Scotland, the Devon-born soldier who later became a key figure in negotiating the restoration of the monarchy to Charles II in 1660 (5) |
| WALES | Prince of _, title of Prince Charles (5) |
| ARMAGH | Archbishop of ____, title of the Primate of All Ireland (6) |
| GLOUCESTER | Duke of ___; title of Henry IV's fourth and youngest son Humphrey (10) |
| SIAM | Anna and the King of ___ (title of the novel The King and I is based on) |
