Of the cenotaphs and funeral monuments the most splendid is the monument to the archduchess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, consisting of nine figures.

Excluding those princesses who have married into overseas Roman Catholic royal families, only one member of the Royal Family ( that is, with the style of Royal Highness ) has converted to Roman Catholicism since the passage of the act: the Duchess of Kent, wife of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent.

Also, while Chaucer clearly states the addressees of many of his poems ( the Book of the Duchess is believed to have been written for John of Gaunt on the occasion of his wife's death in 1368 ), the intended audience of The Canterbury Tales is more difficult to determine.

Certainly Eugene's appearance was not impressive – " He was never good looking …" wrote the Duchess of Orléans, " It is true that his eyes are not ugly, but his nose ruins his face ; he has two large teeth which are visible at all times.

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

She is known for her appearance in the film Emily and subsequent relationship with Prince Andrew, son of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, before his marriage to Sarah, Duchess of York.

The core of the Lithuanian Land Force structure is the Iron Wolf Mechanised Infantry Brigade ( MIB " Iron Wolf ") consisting of two mechanized infantry battalions ( King Mindaugas and Lithuanian Grand Duke Algirdas battalions ), two motorized infantry battalions ( Grand Duchess Birutė and Lithuanian Grand Duke Kestutis battalions ), artillery battalion and Lithuanian Duke Vaidotas Forward support battalion.

The Dowager Duchess is witty and intelligent, and strongly supports her younger son, whom she plainly prefers over his less intelligent, more conventional older brother, Gerald, the 16th Duke.

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

He later published the Plateau Mont-Royal Chronicles, a cycle of six novels including The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant ( La grosse femme d ' à côté est enceinte, 1978 ) and The Duchess and the Commoner ( La duchesse et le roturier, 1982 ).

The Duchess of Bronte, Frances Nisbet ( 1761 − 1831 ), is best known as the wife of British hero 1st Viscount Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, of Battle of Trafalgar fame.

Attention is now drawn to Wellington ( Plummer ), who attends the Duchess of Richmond's ball, where Picton and other generals are present.

One of his young soldiers, Lord Hay, is engaged to her daughter, and the Duchess begs they keep him away from the battlefield so her daughter won't " wear black before she wears white ".

), there is an entirely fictional romantic sub-plot with Lord Hay and one of the Duchess ' daughters.

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.

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

* February 17 – A woman named Anna Anderson tries to commit suicide in Berlin and is taken to a mental hospital, where she claims she is Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia.

* Empress Wang is given the title of Duchess Dowager of Ding ' an, while Emperor Ruzi of Han, the former Emperor of Han becomes the Duke of Ding ' an.

However, the Queen changed the private order of precedence in the Royal Family in favour of Princesses Anne and Alexandra, who henceforth take private precedence over the Duchess of Cornwall, who is officially the realm's highest ranking woman after the Queen herself.

Unlike Lord Snowdon and Captain Phillips, Sarah has never remarried and still attends some functions with her daughters, such as the investiture of The Duke of York into the Royal Victorian Order, on which occasions she is afforded the courtesy of treatment as a member of the Royal Family, although the Lord Chamberlain's Diamond Jubilee Guidelines mention the Duchess specifically as being a member of the Royal Family in her own right.

If that were to happen, the Churchill titles would pass to the Earl of Jersey, the heir-male of Anne Villiers, Countess of Jersey, daughter of Elizabeth Egerton, Duchess of Bridgwater, a younger daughter of the first Duke.

He was a younger brother of William IX, Count of Poitiers ; Henry the Young King ; and Matilda, Duchess of Saxony.

The younger daughter of Prince Albert, Duke of York ( second son of King George V and Queen Mary, and later King George VI ) and Elizabeth, Duchess of York ( later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother ), and sister to The Princess Elizabeth NB.

She was a younger sister of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia and an elder sister of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia and Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, all of whom were falsely rumored to have survived the assassination of the Imperial Family.

Tatiana's younger sister Maria reportedly hemorrhaged in December 1914 during an operation to remove her tonsils, according to her paternal aunt Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, who was interviewed later in her life.

He had one older brother, William IX, Count of Poitiers ( d. 1156 ), and his younger siblings included Matilda, Duchess of Saxony ; Richard I of England ; Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany ; Eleanor, Queen of Castile ; Joan, Queen of Sicily ; and John of England.

Anastasia was a younger sister of Grand Duchess Olga, Grand Duchess Tatiana, and Grand Duchess Maria, and was an elder sister of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia.

In childhood, her younger sisters Jessica Mitford (" Decca ") and Deborah Cavendish, 11th Duchess of Devonshire (" Debo ") were particularly devoted to her.

Eugenie Victoria Helena ; born 23 March 1990 ) is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah, Duchess of York.

# HRH The Infanta Cristina, Duchess of Palma de Mallorca, younger daughter of King Juan Carlos.

She was a younger sister of William IX, Count of Poitiers, Henry the Young King, Matilda, Duchess of Saxony, Richard I of England and Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany.

Prince Adolphus aged four, with his two younger sisters Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh | Mary and Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom | Sophia in 1778

Caroline was romantically linked to many famous men, including Mark Shand, the younger brother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall ; Guillermo Vilas ; Sebastian Taylor, who had previously dated Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia ; Jonathan Guinness, the son of Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne ; Henri Giscard d ' Estaing, the son of former President of France Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing ; and French singer Philippe Lavil.

Louise was brought up with the younger princesses ( the future Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Duchess of Alençon, and Duchess of Savoy ), the stepsisters of La Grande Mademoiselle.

On 3 February 1859 in Bari, Francis married princess Duchess Maria Sophia in Bavaria, of the royal Bavarian house of Wittelsbach ( a younger sister of Empress Elisabeth " Sissi " of Austria ).

* Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch ( 1651 – 1732 ), younger daughter of the 2nd Earl

In 1721, the ambassador of France to Russia suggested a marriage between Louis and one of the two unmarried daughters of Peter I of Russia: the Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna ( known for her fluency in French ) or her younger sister, Grand Duchess Yelizaveta Petrovna.

His second daughter, Elisabeth, Duchess of Pomerania, bore a son in 1351, Casimir IV of Pomerania.

They were parents to a daughter, Louise Borgia, Duchess of Valentinois, ( 1500 – 1553 ) who first married Louis II de La Tremouille, Governor of Burgundy, and secondly Philippe de Bourbon ( 1499 – 1557 ), Seigneur de Busset.

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

On 15 December, the Duchess of Suffolk wrote to Burghley describing a plan she and Mary had devised to arrange a meeting between Oxford and his daughter.

On 25 August 1476 in Berlin John married Margaret of Wettin, a daughter of Landgrave William III of Thuringia with Anne of Habsburg, Duchess of Luxembourg.

She was the daughter of John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg, and Anna, Duchess of Prussia, daughter of Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia.

* 1848 – Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria ( d. 1939 )

Joachim ( 1505 – 1571 ), the future elector of Brandenburg, was the eldest son and heir of their current claimant of Luxembourg, Joachim I, Elector of Brandenburg ( 1484 – 1535 ), the eldest son and heir of the late Margaret of Thuringia ( 1449 – 1501 ), Dowager Electress of Brandenburg, herself the eldest daughter and heiress of Anna, Duchess of Luxembourg and William of Saxony, Landgrave of Thuringia.

The first was Duchess Anna of Prussia, daughter of Duke John William's eldest sister, Marie Eleonore of Cleves.

** Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife, British royal, eldest daughter of Edward VII ( b. 1867 )

* March 18 – Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria ( d. 1939 )

* December 25 – Princess Alexandra of Kent, daughter of The Duke and Duchess of Kent

* March 4 – Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia, eldest daughter of Peter the Great ( b. 1708 )

** Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, marries Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia, only daughter of Tsar Alexander III of Russia.

* July 13 – Matilda, Duchess of Saxony, daughter of Henry II of England ( b. 1156 )

Her mother was Elizabeth, Duchess of York, the youngest daughter of the 14th Earl and the Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne.

The first daughter of Gaston stands on the far right: Anne, Duchess of Montpensier | Anne Marie Louise d ' Orléans.

* HG The Duke of Fife ( great-grandson of King Edward VII through his daughter The Princess Louise, Princess Royal, Duchess of Fife )