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The couple lived in a farmhouse in Northumberland until 1995, when Lord Ralph's brother Henry, 11th Duke of Northumberland, died from heart failure after an overdose of amphetamines, and Ralph succeeded to the dukedom. As old family friends, the Duke and Duchess attended the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. [1]
George FitzRoy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, an illegitimate son of king Charles II, was created Duke of Northumberland in the Peerage of England in 1683.He had already been created Baron of Pontefract, Viscount Falmouth and Earl of Northumberland in 1674, also in the Peerage of England.
Ralph George Algernon Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland, DL (born 16 November 1956), styled Lord Ralph Percy until 1995, is a British hereditary peer and rural landowner and current head of the House of Percy.
Percy was the eldest son of Algernon Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland, by his wife Louisa, daughter of Henry Drummond. Lord Algernon Percy was his younger brother. He became known by the courtesy title Lord Lovaine when his grandfather succeeded in the dukedom of Northumberland in 1865 and as Earl Percy when his father succeeded in the dukedom in 1867.
Jane Dudley, Duchess of Northumberland (née Guildford; 1508/1509 – 15 or 22 January 1555) was an English courtier. She was the wife of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, and mother of Guildford Dudley and Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. Having grown up with her future husband, who was her father's ward, she married at about age ...
The duke and duchess were prominent patrons of Robert Adam for neoclassical interiors in the Jacobean mansion Northumberland House, the London seat of the Earls of Northumberland; it was demolished c. 1870–1871 to enable the creation of Trafalgar Square.
Some women to have held the title Duchess of Northumberland, as wives of the Duke of Northumberland, include: First creation. Jane Dudley, Duchess of Northumberland (1508/9–1555), (née Guildford), wife of the duke; Third creation. Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland (1716–1776), (née Seymour), wife of the 1st duke
The childless marriage of the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland ended with the Duke's death on 11 February 1847. The Duchess died in Twickenham on 27 July 1866. [9] As a Duchess of Northumberland, she is buried in Westminster Abbey. [10] The Duchess was born into a plant-loving family and was an avid plant enthusiast herself.