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  2. The Duchess of Duke Street - Wikipedia

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    The Duchess of Duke Street is a BBC television drama series set in London between 1900 and 1925. It was created by John Hawkesworth , previously the producer of the ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs . [ 1 ]

  3. List of dukes in the peerages of Britain and Ireland - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Royal dukedoms in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    3rd Duke of York, Duke of Cornwall: Duke of Cornwall (3rd creation) extinct, 1460: Duke of Bedford (5th creation), 1485: Duke of Clarence (3rd creation), 1461: Duke of Gloucester (3rd creation), 1461: James II 1430–1460: Jasper Tudor c. 1431 –1495 Duke of Bedford: Edmund Tudor c. 1430 –1456: Lady Margaret Beaufort 1443–1509: John ...

  5. Duke of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Duke of Ireland is a title that was created in 1386 for Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford (1362–1392), the favourite of King Richard II of England, who had previously been created Marquess of Dublin. Both were peerages for one life only. At this time, only the Pale of Ireland (the Lordship of Ireland) was under English control.

  6. Dukes in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Palliser novels - Wikipedia

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    The last book of the series, The Duke's Children, deals with the lives and loves of their three children. Palliser is eventually offered the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer anyway. However, upon inheriting the dukedom , he is forced to relinquish the beloved post, as it is against constitutional convention for a member of the House of Lords ...

  8. Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford - Wikipedia

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    He succeeded his father as earl in 1371, and was created Marquess of Dublin in 1385. The next year he was created Duke of Ireland. He was thus the first marquess, and only the second non-princely duke (after Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster in 1337), in England. King Richard's close friendship with de Vere was disagreeable to the ...

  9. Rosa Lewis - Wikipedia

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    Rosa Lewis (née Ovenden; 1867–1952) was an English cook and owner of The Cavendish Hotel in London, located at the intersection of Jermyn Street and Duke Street, St. James. [1] Known as the "Queen of Cooks", her culinary skills were highly prized by Edward VII , with whom she was rumoured to have had an affair in the 1890s.