Regency Reader Questions: All About the Dukes…No Barons
Regency Reader Question I have always understood that dukes are very rare, and in the English peerage, most have a connection or actual blood relationship Continue
Regency Reader Question I have always understood that dukes are very rare, and in the English peerage, most have a connection or actual blood relationship Continue
In the 1740s, a house at 64 St. James was converted to a chocolate house and became, by the Regency era, a noted Tory Chocolate Continue
This anecdote on a bill for courtship (or courtship disguising free legal services) appeared in the August 1800 issue of The Lady’s Monthly Museum:
Sake Dean Mahomed (also Sheikh Din Muhammad) was born in Patna, India in 1759 and lived into his early 90s, dying in Brighton in 1851. Continue