Word: buccleuch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hamilton, more than a few of them trace their lineage back to "those royal romances which always seemed to involve births on the wrong side of the blanket." As Hamilton figures it, the Duke of St. Albans, the Duke of Grafton, the Duke of Richmond and the Duke of Buccleuch are descended from Charles II's twelve bastard children. There was some grumbling that Hamilton was being unfair to illegitimate children of the past. Responded the M.P.: "I am objecting to illegitimate children having the right, by virtue of being illegitimate, of going into the Lords...