Right Little, Tight Little Island
December, 1957
Right Little, Tight Little IslandSark Is The Only feudal state to survive in Europe. It is a fief; as such, it was given to a feudal lord by Queen Elizabeth I in 1565, and it passed from hand to hand for almost 400 years until, nowadays, it occupies those of Mrs. Sibyl Hathaway, a very proper, elderly, sensible British lady who lives in a venerable manor house there, and who chooses to be known as the Dame of Sark. Mrs. Hathaway, the Dame, is not only lord and mistress of Sark and its 500 or so...