The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge : the past revisited

Abstract

Previous holders of these titles in the UK have had interesting lives, especially that of the last Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and Dane Garrod's postal history collection explains how and why. When The Queen conferred the title of Duke of Cambridge on Prince William of Wales on the morning of his wedding day in April 2011, a break of 107 years was bridged to the last holder of that title, H.R.H. Prince George, Duke of Cambridge. Apparently, this last Duke was a prolific writer, or so it seems because his correspondence can be found without great difficulty in the collections of postal historians as well as with postal/stamp dealers. This article will look briefly at the history of the first three creations of this dukedom, and then more closely at the fourth, this erstwhile George, and the postal history linked to him, as well as his Duchess, who in fact was not legally his Duchess at all... [excerpt]