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Charles Robert George Innes-Ker, 11th Duke of Roxburghe (born 18 February 1981), also known as Charles Innes or Charlie Roxburghe and styled as the Marquess of Bowmont and Cessford until 2019, is a British aristocrat and military officer.
The Duke of Roxburghe (/ ˈ r ɒ k s b ər ə /) is a title in the peerage of Scotland created in 1707 along with the titles Marquess of Bowmont and Cessford, Earl of Kelso and Viscount Broxmouth.
Duke of Roxburghe, 1707 (succession decided, 1812) Robert Ker (c. 1709 –1755) 2nd Duke of Roxburghe, Marquess of Bowmont and Cessford, Earl of Kelso, and Viscount Broxmouth, 6th Earl of Roxburghe, Lord Roxburghe, and Lord Ker of Cessford and Cavertoun, 1st Earl Ker and Baron Ker: Ker Bellenden (1725–1753) 4th Lord Bellenden: Robert ...
Upon his death, the Lordship of Bellenden of Broughton became extinct, [9] and the succession to the Dukedom of Roxburghe was contested (the Roxburghe cause) [10] until a decision by the House of Lords in 1812 when the Roxburghe and subsidiary titles passed to a distant cousin, James Innes-Ker, who became the 5th Duke of Roxburghe.
Charles Robert George Innes Ker, 11th Duke of Roxburghe (b. 18 February 1981) Lord Edward "Ted" Arthur Gerald Innes-Ker (b. 2 February 1984) [citation needed] The Duke remarried 3 September 1992, interior designer Virginia Mary, née Wynn-Williams (1st daughter of David Wynn-Williams). They had a son and a daughter. Their children are:
Through the Innes family, he was a descendant of Robert Ker, 1st Earl of Roxburghe, and in 1812 established his claim to the vacant Dukedom of Roxburghe.The fight for the succession of the title encompassed seven years of constant litigation; according to one biography, "seldom have the lawyers met with a richer harvest.
Innes-Ker was the only surviving child of the 5th Duke of Roxburghe and the former Harriet Charlewood (c. 1778 –1855). Before his parents' marriage in 1807, his father was widowed from his marriage to Mary Wray, eldest daughter of Sir John Wray, 12th Baronet.
In the Peerage of England, the title of duke was created 74 times (using 40 different titles: the rest were recreations).Three times a woman was created a duchess in her own right; Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, chief mistress of Charles II of England, Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch, wife of Charles II's eldest illegitimate son, the Duke of Monmouth, and Cecilia Underwood ...