Sam Dangremond is a Contributing Digital Editor at Town & Country, where he covers men's style, cocktails, travel, and the social scene.

(Reuters) - The Labour Party won a parliamentary election in Scotland on Friday in a sign that Prime Minister Gordon Brown's handling of the financial crisis has turned around his political fortunes.

Traditionally, the wake of invasion or revolution presents a sad story of the deposed monarchy. The early 20th century brought a series of autobiographies of nobles from Spain, and what had been the ...