Almost half of these tombs are located on this site and they are thought to have been made for the burial of kings, members of the royal family and the aristocracy.

UNESCO: Culture

But in Britain, freemasons have worked hard to stay on the right side of authority, enlisting members of the aristocracy and royal family as protectors.

ECONOMIST: Freemasonry

The key to understanding Christopher Hitchens is that his friends were a kind of aristocracy to him, and his close friends (like the author Martin Amis) were members of the royal family.

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