duke

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Walpole’s cousin Henry Conway came as the duke from “Don Quixote.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Hoping to attract the English nobility, the duke turned his apartments at Somerset House on the Thames into a space for dancing, drinking and eating all night.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

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

She tells old Alec he's really a duke and all, but he doesn't believe her and doesn't want to go with her to visit his mother and all.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger