Dame Jean was at one time a lady-in-waiting to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, patron of the Dandie Dinmont Club, a breed of dog named after one of Sir Walter Scott's characters ; and a horse trainer, one of whose horses, Sir Wattie, ridden by Ian Stark, won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia by Cornelis II Floris de Vriendt

Portrait of Grand Duchess Bianca Capello de Medici, by Allori, Dallas Museum of Art

Cenotaph to Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen | Maria Christina of Austria in the Augustinerkirche, by Canova

Other properties on the estate include Birkhall, formerly home to Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, and used now by Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall for their summer holidays.

The Wedding of Nicholas II and Grand duke | Grand Duchess Alexandra Fyodorovna ( Alix of Hesse ) | Alexandra Feodorovna, by Ilya Repin | Ilya Yefimovich Repin, 1894 ( Russian Museum | Russian State Museum, Saint Petersburg | St. Petersburg ).

* Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough ( 1681 – 1733 ), eldest daughter of the 1st Duke, succeeded her father by Act of Parliament ( 1706 )

940 / 45 – 977 ) was a Bohemian princess of the Přemyslid dynasty and by marriage Duchess of the Polans.

Eleanor succeeded her father, becoming Duchess of Aquitaine and Countess of Poitiers, and by extension, the most eligible bride in Europe, at the age of fifteen.

She is identified as Eleanor, by the Grace of God, Queen of the English, Duchess of the Normans.

Lully set words by the Duchess of Brinon to music, and de Créquy claims the tune was later plagiarised by Handel.

The performance, a musical benefit at London's Royal Albert Hall in aid of the deaf, was attended by Prince Andrew's then wife, the Duchess of York.

At that time, the duchy and castle were held by the Bohemian princess Elisabeth of Gorlitz, Duchess of Luxembourg, a cadet granddaughter of emperor Charles IV.

Historical evidence of these efforts is in the Prayer Book sent to Mieszko II by the Duchess Matilda of Swabia around 1027.

The Duchess was dead at the time of the island's sighting by Cook, but Cook had set out from England in 1772 and could not have known of her May 1773 death.

In June 1476, he started his studies at the University of Leuven, where he pursued philosophy, theology and Canon Law, due to a scholarship granted by Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy, becoming a Doctor of Theology in 1491, Dean of St. Peter's and vice-chancellor of the university.

The jewelry was allegedly turned over to the Swedish embassy in St. Petersburg in November 1918 by Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin to keep it safe.

At the time of the death of his father and older brother Edmund, Earl of Rutland at the Battle of Wakefield, Richard, who was eight years old, was sent by his mother, the Duchess of York to the Low Countries, beyond the reach of Henry VI's vengeful Queen, Margaret of Anjou.

The annual Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction was created in 2010 by the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, whose ancestors were closely linked to Sir Walter Scott.

The Duke of Gordon is depicted as leading his Gordon Highlanders into battle, and is described by the Duchess of Richmond as " uncle ": in fact, he is a conflate character, representing the contributions of several members of the House of Gordon.

The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.

He is succeeded by his daughter The Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh ( now Elizabeth II ), who is on a visit to Kenya.

* December 14 – Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine ( b. 1843 )

* July 3 – Perkin Warbeck's troops land in Kent, in support of his claim to the English crown, backed by Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy.

In any case, I have always been treated with the utmost courtesy by Englishmen, even in Devonshire and Cornwall, where anti-Catholic feeling has supposedly existed the strongest and longest.

On his return to England in 1576 he sold his manors in Devonshire ; by the end of 1578 he had sold at least seven more.

He was succeeded by the Duke of Devonshire who formed the 1757 Caretaker Ministry.

* Chatsworth Head acquired by the 6th Duke of Devonshire at Smyrna from H. P. Borrell.

Typically, individuals appointed as federal viceroy were already a peer, either by inheriting the title, such as the Duke of Devonshire, or by prior elevation by the sovereign in their own right, as was the case with the Viscount Alexander of Tunis.

Surviving accounts from the Devonshire Regiment indicate that the Swazis were acting as " a ninth column, commanded by the Queen of the Swazis ".

Burlington's architectural drawings, inherited by his son-in-law the Duke of Devonshire are preserved at Chatsworth, and enable attributions that would not otherwise be possible.

Other properties owned by the Dukes of Devonshire, currently or in the past, include:

* The Estate: A View from Chatsworth ( 1990 ) by the Duchess of Devonshire.

* The Garden at Chatsworth ( 1999 ) by the Duchess of Devonshire.

The proposal – backed by William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, Richard Arkwright junior, and several Manchester bankers – was ambitious ; it was expected that steam locomotives would be used on the line, even though the technology was in its infancy and George Stephenson did not build his revolutionary Rocket until 1829.

Duke of Devonshire is a title in the Peerage of England held by members of the Cavendish family.

Devonshire was succeeded by his eldest son, William Cavendish, who became the fifth Duke of Devonshire.

Devonshire died childless and was succeeded by his nephew, the ninth Duke.

Devonshire was therefore succeeded by his second but eldest surviving son, the eleventh Duke.

The town largely grew in importance in the late 18th century when it was developed by the Dukes of Devonshire, with a second resurgence a century later as the Victorians were drawn to the reputed healing properties of the waters.

* The Devonshire Dome ( 1780 – 1789 ) was created from the Great Stables, converted in 1859 by Henry Currey, architect to the 7th Duke of Devonshire.

Originally given to the Roman Catholic Church by the Duke of Devonshire in 1950 to commemorate Holy Year, it was replaced in the 1980s.

The painting remained in Morgan's family until 1994, when it was put up for sale at Sotheby's and was purchased by the 11th Duke of Devonshire for the Chatsworth House collection.

The film, directed by Saul Dibb, is based on the biography Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman.