Word: dukedom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have not been so few until the present time. It is allegedly because of the lack of them that King George is about to make his youngest sons, aged 23 and 20 respectively, dukes; more probably, however, it is because it has been customary since 1337, when the first dukedom was created (Cornwall), to confer dukedoms upon the sons of the reigning monarch...
...peers were supposed to be equal. The senior peer of the peerage is Bernard Marmaduke Fitz-Alan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, 15 years of age, who, by virtue of his rank, carries the extra titles of Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England. The dukedom dates from...