duke

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The duke said he had learned from his own "past mistakes", an apparent reference to an incident when he was 20 years old.

From BBC • May 14, 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

Knowing that the duke will welcome military expertise, Leonardo says that he’s an engineer who can dig underground tunnels.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day