One story goes that when Lady Grey found out about the infidelity of her husband, she killed him.

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Lady Grey-Thompson saw the London Games, with some 300 athletes in the British Paralympic team, as a "once in a lifetime opportunity to showcase disability sport".

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It mustered a 16 vote majority against Crossbencher Lady Grey Thompson's amendment calling for an independent study and pilot programmes before the new Personal Independence Payment for disabled people replaces Disability Living Allowance.

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The crossbencher Lady Grey-Thompson has a regret motion on the "gateway" phone system which will filter some legal advice claims, and the Labour former Attorney General, Lady Scotland, has another regret motion on legal aid entitlement for family law cases, where she's arguing that the proposed rules will deny help to some women facing domestic violence.

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Lady Jane Grey, the teen queen who ruled England for nine days, also got her head lopped off in these precincts.

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Still, most would not see the Gray Lady as grey literature.

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For those who like to combine their celebrity spotting with their spooking, be on the lookout for the ghosts of Thomas Becket, the young Dukes of York, Sir Walter Raleigh, Lady Jane Grey, a bear and Queen Anne Boleyn.

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Satirist Tony Hendra has returned to making fun of the Grey Lady.

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Even the grey lady is bestirring herself: the New York Times this week ran an article of nearly 8, 000 words on Mr Emanuel and his woes.

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Halfway up 62nd St, he stops, transfixed by the sight of a lady standing in a doorway with a walking stick, grey hair loosely pinned under a woolly hat.

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