Articles concerning history, with a particular focus on UK history or the UK's role in world history

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A few weeks ago, I went down a rabbit hole of researching my local duke and his family. And I started noticing a pattern. they would regularly have to inherit in ways other than father to son. Today, I will be cataloguing the story.....of the Duchy of Northumberland.

The Dukes of the North