committee to settle upon the design. His contributions based upon Toddington's were accepted and enhanced.<ref>The Sudeleys - Lords of Toddington, 1987, p.232.</ref> At Easter 1985, in conjunction with the century-old Manorial Society of Great Britain (of which he sat on the Governing Council), Sudeley held a conference at his old home, the proceedings published in a volume entitled The Sudeleys - Lords of Toddington, taking the history of his family back to Thomas Becket's murder and ultimately to Charlemagne. On 21 November 2006, he arranged a further conference at the Society of Antiquaries of London on "Visual Aspects of Toddington in the 19th century". Sudeley, as a historian, has written many published essays, including a history of the English gentleman for a German pharmaceutical magazine Die Waage, and has completed a history of the House of Lords to give ascendancy to its Tory as opposed to Whig history interpretation. The book is entitled Peers Through the Mist of Time, the launch taking place at Brooks's Club in London St.James, where Sudeley was an old member, on 28 September 2018. "Toddington, the Unforgotten Forerunner", is Sudeley’s story of his Regency family home, personally designed in a pioneering blend of Perpendicular Gothic and Picturesque by his forbear Charles Hanbury-Tracy, ennobled by Queen Victoria as First Lord Sudeley, later Chairman of the Commission for the Rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament in the same style, and its tragic and unexplained loss, Diehard Books, 2021. He is also the author of a satire on Greek mythology (published in John Pudney's famous Pick of Today's Short Stories) and a quantity of politically-incorrect short stories mostly published in the London Miscellany magazine. In recent years Sudeley style-edited a definitive monograph on Azerbaijan's architecture, translated from the Russian. Personal life and death Lord Sudeley lived in London. He had been married three times and divorced twice, without issue. Lord Sudeley married firstly, on 18 January 1980 (marriage dissolved 1988), The Honourable Elizabeth Mairi Villiers (3 November 1941 – 29 September 2014), daughter of Derek William Charles Keppel, Viscount Bury (heir-apparent of the 9th Earl of Albemarle) and Lady Mairi Vane-Tempest-Stewart (youngest daughter of the 7th Marquess of Londonderry, and ex-wife of Alastair Michael Hyde Villiers, a Partner in Panmure Gordon & Company stockbrokers. He married secondly, in 1999 (marriage dissolved 2006), Margarita Kellett (born 1962), daughter of Nikolai Danko, ex-wife of Lloyd's broker Nigel Kellett. Sudeley married