One remnant of the insignificance of Philip Stanhope’s life compared to his parents’ and stepmother’s expectations for him is that there is no surviving portrait of him. Not even a sketch or a silhouette remains of him, at least to public knowledge (as always it is possible the Stanhope family has such objects but haven’t made them available). The reaso…
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