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Marengo As for Lady Saltoun, no. A lot of peerages, mainly ancient ones, devolve to heirs general and not heirs male, much like the crown of the United Kingdom. There is also a whole concept of abeyance in England (not in Scotland, IIRC). The title of Mountbatten was created with a special...

Marengo The manner of inheriting the British peerages is determined by letters patent issued on the creation of the peerage. The usual remainder is "heirs male of his body". The Dukedom of Fife was created in 1887 with the standard remainder. However, when a birth of the male heir became...

I don't think so, in case of Portland. The 2nd Earl was made the 1st Duke, and now there are living lineal descendants of the 1st Earl whose line of male descent is unbroken, but not of the 2nd Earl and 1st Duke.

Thank you very much! I believe it is complete; I'm not counting the Dukedom of Lancaster as it merged into the Crown in 1399.

In the UK there are thirty-four Dukedoms held by twenty-nine Dukes.

She played Diana Spencer in The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana (1982) and in Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After (1992).

Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia was Princess Marina's niece. Her mother, Princess Olga, was a sister of Marina.

I'm afraid that you are mistaken -- the present heirs to the dukedoms of Cumberland and Albany are not entitled to the title of Prince and the style of Royal Highness under the Letters Patent issued on 30 October 1917.

Actually, she doesn't -- a sovereign cannot be a peer. :) 'Duke of Lancaster' is a local style for the British monarch.

Yes, the Queen can use extinct peerage titles for the members of the royal family. The Marquessate of Cambridge went extinct in 1981.

Erm... the first question is simultaneously simple and difficult. Avondale is not linked with Clarence in any way except historical, however the 'pure' Clarence title, Earl of Clarence, is suspended along with the Dukedom of Albany, so I presume that the new creation of the dukedom will be in...

According to the Regency Act 1937 Charles would be appointed regent if his mother were incpacitated; the same holds for William in case of King Charles's incapacity.

No way except of amending or repealing the Act of Settlement.

I don't think that it can be called 'luck'... Aside from the first creation, every time the Dukedom of York has been created it has had only one occupant. The Dukes of York either ascend the throne or leave no male heirs.

I've remembered that the royal Dukedom of Sussex is not held by anyone at present, too.

Ah! That's very good! A minor correction, though -- 'Ochen blagodaren/blagodarna' (depending on the speaker's gender). :) I hope that the Queen is going to live long enough to grant him some title on his marriage, just like future George V was made Duke of York. I agree on York... A listing of...

The members of the British royal family have usually attended the coronations of foreign monarchs. I know that the Duke of Gloucester was present when Haile Selassie was crowned in 1930; the Prince of Wales attended the coronation of the King of Nepal, Birendra, in 1975. However, I'm not sure...

Hello Nicole, We Russians know how to defend ourselves, whether from the Germans or from the British! :-) But let's not digress, what other royal dukedoms are available for William and Harry? The dukedom of Clarence? WBR, Sergey

Some future king can reign under different ordinals in England & Wales and in Scotland, that's for sure. Thankfully Charles is going to be the third king of that name in all of the constituent countries of the UK. :)

Ah, I see. :) Probably I have made some mistake but, as far as I can see, there is an unbroken line of male descent in the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family.

I don't think so, the dukedoms of Albany and Cumberland are in a state of 'suspended animation', and the Windsor title is associated with Edward VIII. Among the traditional royal dukedoms the Cambridge and Kendal titles are available. A new grant of the Connaught title is IMO very unlikely.

There is a male heir to the dukedom of Albany, Hubertus, son of Ernst-Leopold, who in turn was a son of Johann Leopold, whose father was the last Duke of Albany Carl Eduard. In theory he can petition the British Crown for the restoration of the dignities removed in 1919. And the Dukedom of...

Not quite, those two dukedoms were suspended in 1919.

The Stuart Jameses reigned over kingdoms that were in a personal union, thus they had a different ordinal in each state. The present Queen reigns as a monarch of the United Kingdom. As for sovereignty, you are mixing up the concept in the British constitutional law (parliamentary sovereignty)...

In Scotland, it was a proper way to address their monarch; just like it was in pre-Henry VIII England, I think.