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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 ...
The Duke of Cornwall Hotel – 1922. The first steam train arrived at the now-closed Plymouth Millbay railway station on 2 April 1849. The increase of first class travel to the area led to an increasing demand for luxury accommodation and once the need for a quality hotel was recognised, a group of railway directors were appointed as the hotel's board of directors.
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The Dukes of Sussex, of York and of Edinburgh bear by letters patent the coronet of a child of the sovereign (four crosses patées alternating with four fleurs-de-lis), while the Duke of Cornwall, Rothesay and Cambridge has use of the Prince of Wales' coronet, and the current dukes of Gloucester and of Kent, as grandsons of a sovereign bear the ...
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The UK experienced an unusually wet July even as a historic heatwave swept parts of Europe and the world hits back-to-back record-breaking temperatures this year driven by the man-made climate crisis.
8th Earl of Plymouth 1768–1843: Earldom extinct: Abeyance terminated 1855: Other Windsor 6th Earl of Plymouth 12th Baron Windsor 1789–1833: Harriet Windsor-Clive 13th Baroness Windsor 1797–1869: Hon. Robert Clive: Barony in abeyance: Hon. Robert Windsor-Clive 1824–1859: Viscount Windsor (second creation, 1905) Earl of Plymouth (third ...
Duke, in the United Kingdom, is the highest-ranking hereditary title in all five peerages of the British Isles. A duke thus outranks all other holders of titles of ...