article_snippet: The Earl and Countess of Lord Derby.
article_snippet: The Earl and Countess of Derby ancestor changed the course of battle .
highlights_snippet: Following The cortege is the 19th Earl of Derby, descendant of Lord Stanley, Richard’s Lord High Constable of England.
highlights_snippet: ‘Lord Stanley had by far the largest army on the field,’ said Lord Derby.
highlights_snippet: But Lord Derby was in a very difficult position.
highlights_snippet: Lord Derby is one of the ten ‘Bosworth peers’, whose ancestors fought at the battle, who will follow the coffin later today.
  
highlights_snippet: York peers are the Earl of Derby; the 6th Baron Raglan; 29th Baron Herbert; 11th Earl De La Warr; and representatives of the 18th Earl of Devon and 8th Baroness Bray.
highlights_snippet: The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester will also be present, as will the ‘Bosworth peers’, the original ten now swollen by other Plantagenet courtier families, including the Duke of St Albans and Lord Scrope.