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Both were succeeded in their titles by nephews born by younger sisters of the duchesses. The word duchess is normally only used for the wife of a duke. Dukes of Lancaster are called dukes even when they are female, and by tradition the monarch of the UK, whether male or female, is known in the Channel Islands as the Duke of Normandy.
Dame. Dame is an honorific title and the feminine form of address for the honour of damehood in many Christian chivalric orders, as well as the British honours system and those of several other Commonwealth realms, such as Australia and New Zealand, with the masculine form of address being Sir. It is the female equivalent of a knighthood, which ...
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 nobility (marquess, earl, viscount and baron or lord of parliament). The wife of a duke is known as a duchess, which is also the title of a woman who holds a dukedom in her own right ...
The office/authority is called "domnie" (roughly "lordship") rather than voievodship (as is the case of similar named but lesser Slavic titles). The prince is called upon as "doamne" ("mylord"). Sovereign Duke, from the Latin Dux, meaning "leader," a military rank in the Late Roman Empire.
[citation needed] The eldest son of the eldest son of a duke or marquess may use a still lower title, if one exists. In legal documents, the courtesy title is implied, but not used directly – that is, the name of the person is given, followed by "commonly called [title]". For example, the Duke of Norfolk is also Earl of Arundel and Baron ...
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 ...
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh: 60 Son Sophie Rhys-Jones: 15 James Mountbatten-Windsor, Earl of Wessex [a] 16 Grandchild — 16 Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor [b] 20 17 Anne, Princess Royal: 74 Daughter Sir Timothy Laurence: Descendant of George V; 31 Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester: 80 Grandchild Birgitte van Deurs Henriksen: 41 Prince ...
The following is the order of precedence in England and Wales as of September 2024. Separate orders exist for men and women. Names in italics indicate that these people rank elsewhere—either higher in that table of precedence or in the table for the other sex. Titles in italics indicate the same thing for their holders, or that they are vacant.