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or seignory
as in duchy
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The Duke of Cornwall inherited the duchy in September 2022.
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The European duchy is Luxembourg.
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In October, Andrew was stripped of his princely title, his dukedom, and a number of awards and honorifics.
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However, the scandal surrounding King Charles' brother, the former Prince Andrew — who was stripped of his dukedom as well as his other royal titles, including prince, in October 2025 — has led some to believe that the York title is tainted and won't be reassigned in the future.
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The tiny principality is perhaps best known for its ski resorts, but in the warmer months, travelers swap the slopes for scenic hiking trails that wind through the Pyrenees Mountains.
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The Alpine Gasly – along with four others – were handed time penalties for speeding in the Monaco pit lane during the race in the principality in early June.
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His kingdom, the gesture implied, was already full.
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But Curaçao knows its roots extend to the kingdom almost 5,000 miles away, on a different continent.
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Build the empire on top of all of it.
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What emerges is a portrait of Maurice as both architect and enigma, a man whose creative vision built an empire and whose personal choices left fractures still being processed decades later.
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From its earliest days, Anthropic identified coding as the most important domain in AI to focus on.
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With the success of Kpop Demon Hunters, Netflix is bringing feature animation squarely under the domain of Hannah Minghella.
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The British North America Act came into effect, uniting the separate territories of the Province of Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia into one dominion called Canada.
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Italy has a colonial past, of course, and its government forces committed atrocities in areas under Italian dominion in East Africa between the 1880s and 1941.
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One user, taxi driver Aleksandr, asked the head of the republic how he was supposed to support his family and pay off loans.
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America is about to turn 250 years old as a republic.
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“Seigniory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seigniory. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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