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Hamilton Palace. The Duke gradually sank into dissipation. In 1794, the couple eventually divorced, by Act of Parliament after 16 years of marriage. The Duchess initiated the divorce on the grounds of his adultery with actress Mrs. Esten since 1793, but also previous adultery with an unnamed lady (Frances Twysden, wife of the Earl of Eglinton and sister of the Countess of Jersey) since 1787.
Upon the death of his father on 5 June 2010, he became the 16th Duke of Hamilton in the Peerage of Scotland and 13th Duke of Brandon in the Peerage of Great Britain.He also inherited other Scottish peerages and titles, Marquess of Douglas, Marquess of Clydesdale, Earl of Angus, Earl of Lanark, Earl of Arran and Cambridge, Lord Abernethy and Jedburgh Forest, Lord Machanshyre and Polmont and ...
They had four children and five grand children: Lady Eleanor Douglas-Hamilton (born 10 August 1973) Lady Ann Douglas-Hamilton (born 14 May 1976) Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 16th Duke of Hamilton (born 31 March 1978) Lord John William Douglas-Hamilton (born 2 October 1979) He married secondly Jillian Robertson in 1988 (divorced 1995). No issue.
Elizabeth Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon (Lady Elizabeth Ivy Percy; 1916–2008), wife of Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton; Sarah Jane Scott, 1st wife of Angus Douglas-Hamilton, 15th Duke of Hamilton; Jillian Robertson (died 2018), 2nd wife of Angus Douglas-Hamilton, 15th Duke of Hamilton; Kay Carmichael, 3rd ...
Elizabeth Ivy Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton, OBE, DL (25 May 1916 – 16 September 2008), [1] was the daughter of Alan Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland (1880–1930) and his wife, Helen. She was born as Lady Elizabeth Ivy Percy at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland and spent her youth between there, Albury House in Surrey and Syon House ...
Duke of Hamilton is a title in the Peerage of Scotland, created in April 1643.It is the senior dukedom in that peerage (except for the Dukedom of Rothesay held by the sovereign's eldest son), and as such its holder is the premier peer of Scotland, as well as being head of both the House of Hamilton and the House of Douglas.
Hamilton was born in Pimlico, London.He was the son of Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton and his wife Nina (née Poore).He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he gained a Blue in boxing and also rowed for the university.
The duke did not defend the case, and the duchess obtained her divorce. However, she did not re-marry until after the death of the duke, in 1799. In 1800 the duchess married the Earl of Exeter, whose second wife had died in childbirth in 1797. He was created Marquess of Exeter in 1801, [8] but died in 1804, and she did not remarry.