Stelistu Posted November 29, 2018 Posted November 29, 2018 Queen Elizabeth is a woman known by many names. To her great-grandchildren, she's Gan-Gan, and to most of her subjects, she's Her Majesty. But for a select group of Brits, the Queen goes by a very different title: Duke of Lancaster. Despite being a woman, the Queen is known as a Duke as opposed to a Duchess, and today, she will be toasted as such. As royal blog the Crown Chronicles pointed out on Twitter, "Today is Lancashire Day, marking the area first sending representatives to Parliament in 1295. During the day, you may hear a chorus of 'Long live our noble Duke' instead of 'God Save The Queen,' as the reigning Monarch's title in that county is 'Duke of Lancaster.'" The site goes into detail about the history of the royal title, noting that when John of Gaunt, the Second Duke of Lancaster died in 1399, "his nephew King Richard II confiscated the Lancaster inheritance and banished John’s son, Henry Bolingbroke, from England for life."
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