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By 1572, this class of peerage was extinct, and there were no dukes in the last 30 years of her reign. The extant dukedoms in the Peerage of England were all created (or restored, in the cases of Norfolk and Somerset) in the Stuart period, beginning with James I's re-creation of the dukedom of Buckingham in 1623 for George Villiers.
England Also Duke of Lennox in the Peerage of Scotland (1675) – see below 5. Duke of Grafton: 1675 Henry FitzRoy, 12th Duke of Grafton: 46 2011 England 6. Duke of Beaufort: 1682 Henry Somerset, 12th Duke of Beaufort: 72 2017 England 7. Duke of St Albans: 1684 Murray Beauclerk, 14th Duke of St Albans: 86 1988 England 8. Duke of Bedford: 1694
In the British peerage, a royal duke is a member of the British royal family, entitled to the titular dignity of prince and the style of His Royal Highness, who holds a dukedom. Dukedoms are the highest titles in the British roll of peerage, and the holders of these particular dukedoms are princes of the blood royal.
A royal duke is a duke who is a member of the British royal family, entitled to the style of "His Royal Highness".. The current royal dukedoms are, in order of precedence of their holders (that is, not in order of precedence of the dukedoms themselves):
The Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. From that year, the Peerages of England and Scotland were closed to new creations, and new peers were created in a single Peerage of Great Britain. There are five peerages in the United Kingdom in total.
Lists of dukedoms include: List of dukedoms in the peerages of Britain and Ireland. Royal dukedoms in the United Kingdom; List of French dukedoms; Dukedoms in Portugal;
The two became the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Two years later, in 2013, the Cambridges welcomed their first child, Prince George of Cambridge, followed by Princess Charlotte in 2015 and Prince ...
Some British peers had fought against the British in World War I; the act permitted the suspension of their titles. In 1919, three peers—Prince Charles Edward, Duke of Albany, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and Henry Taaffe, 12th Viscount Taaffe—had their peerage dignities suspended. The successors to those dignities may petition for ...