duke

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In April, the duke and duchess completed a four-day visit to the east coast of Australia in a private capacity as they are no longer working royals.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

As part of the tour, which begun at Koorie Heritage Trust in Melbourne's Federation Square, the duke and duchess got to handle a Marngrook.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

“If anyone expected the two of them to duke it out in Wright’s much-maligned rotunda,” Huxtable writes, they’d be shocked to discover the two Franks waltzing harmoniously instead.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

And in a 1778 painting of Gainsborough’s wife, Margaret, who was the illegitimate daughter of a duke, he poses her classically in costly black lace.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

When he had approached the duke about Verin’s death, he hadn’t seemed bothered.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas