Kinvara Balfour Fitzalan-Howard and his wife, the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk (formerly Anne Constable-Maxwell). The title of Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Arundel and Earl Marshal of England, is the oldest and premier British aristocratic title after the Royal Family. The Norfolks are direct descendents of King Edward I and they are also the leading Roman Catholic family in Britain. The family seat is Arundel Castle in West Sussex and Carlton Towers in Yorkshire. Balfour is a niece of British broadcaster and TV presenter Sir David Frost and also a niece of television and stage actress Marsha Fitzalan. Balfour attended St. Mary's
Letter to the Duke of Norfolk Letter to the Duke of Norfolk Letter to the Duke of Norfolk is a book written in 1875 by the blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman. Consisting of about 150 pages, it was meant as a response to Protestant-Catholic polemics that had emerged in the era of the First Vatican Council. In the book, Newman comments on the injustice of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone's claim that Catholics have "no mental freedom". Newman states that Catholics "do not deserve his injurious reproach that we are captives and slaves of the Pope". The book is formally addressed to the Duke of Norfolk,