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Oct 30, 2017 · By Guest Submission. 30th October 2017. Queen Victoria and those closest to her viewed her Uncle Cumberland with deep suspicion. Not just because he openly coveted the British throne, but...
- Royal Dukes
- Personal and Hereditary Titles
- The Irish Dukedom
- A Lively History
Royal dukedoms have been bestowed on princes for centuries. Typically given by the monarch to offspring coming of age or on their marriage, Edward III created the custom when he made his eldest son Duke of Cornwall in 1337. Sovereigns have exercised the privilege ever since, most recently when Her Majesty The Queen gave Prince Harry the dukedom of ...
A personal title is unusual. Royal dukedoms are hereditary; however, they cease to be royal once beyond the grandson of a monarch. “If a title becomes extinct, it will revert to the Crown and be eligible for re-creation,” says Koenig. Clarence is the oldest such title, created by Edward III as one of England’s first dukedoms in 1362. “It is the thi...
Certain dukedoms will never be recreated. “There will never be another Duke of Connaught because it is in Ireland,” asserts Koenig. “Victoria’s third son, Prince Arthur, was created Duke of Connaught and Strathearn.” Prince Arthur was Victoria’s last surviving son, reportedly her favourite and an exemplary duke. His son was a similarly safe pair of...
The dukedom of Cumberland has a lively history, too. The third creation was ‘Butcher’ Cumberland, Handel’s ‘Conquering Hero’ in Judas Maccabeus. The title then became Cumberland and Strathearn, its sole holder, Prince Henry, proving better at making love than war. Brother of George III, he married a commoner and was sued by Lord Grosvenor for ‘crim...
The Earldom of Cumberland, created in 1525, became extinct in 1643. The dukedom was created in the Peerage of England in 1644 for Prince Rupert of the Rhine, nephew of King Charles I. When he died without male heirs, the title was created again in the Peerage of England in 1689 for Prince George of Denmark, husband of Princess Anne, younger ...
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May 24, 2018 · Updated on May 24, 2018. Born April 21, 1721 in London, Prince William Augustus was the third son of future King George II and Caroline of Ansbach. At the age of four, he was conferred with the titles Duke of Cumberland, Marquess of Berkhamstead, Earl of Kennington, Viscount of Trematon, and Baron of the Isle of Alderney, as well as was made a ...
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William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland. William Augustus was he first of the house of Hanover to be born in England. Rex Whitworth describes how, politically, the Duke became almost First Minister of the Crown. Books innumerable have been written about Prince Charles Edward, the Young Pretender.
