The marriage was deeply unhappy. "Sunny", as the Duke was known, wasted little time in telling her he'd only married her for her money and in order to save Blenheim Palace, the ducal seat.

The British aristocracy became my specialist subject by happy accident. Halfway up a hill in Dumfriesshire, behind a duke who owned all the land as far as the eye could see, I thought, ‘surely this is ...

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In 1990, Duke countered the conventions of the British aristocracy as a producer and performer on the album The Royal Family, a collective of artists from the Music Of Life camp, including the likes ...

How pioneering Black liberals battled Thomas Jefferson’s “Dark Age” Scholar Keidrick Roy on the lessons of 19th-century Black thinkers who resisted racist notions of "liberty" ...

Duchesses, ladies, baronesses, marchionesses and viscountesses might seem like something out of a fairytale - or a Hollywood film at least - but there are real-life women connected to the British ...

At the time of MC Duke’s arrival on the rap scene, British hip-hop was transitioning from the electro-based sound by London artists such as , Three Wize Men and , to a more sample-based style ...

Here are some key pointers: 1. Heritage and Lineage Aristocracy: The British upper class often includes the aristocracy, comprising families with titles such as dukes, earls, viscounts, barons, and ...