The Royal Wedding and the Bank Account

[justcarol67]

> Geoff:
> With respect, the opening remarks of Carol's have been wrongly attributed to me. They were part of the excellent outline posted by Shaun Hately.

Carol responds:

My apologies to both of you for my careless error, and thanks, Geoff, for your answers to my questions.

BTW, a great many titles (dukedoms, earldoms, etc.) have been restored after becoming extinct, so it's hardly surprising that the Lancastrian title was restored. I still find it odd that the claimant must be styled Duke of Lancaster regardless of sex. Does the same apply to any other royal dukedom involving property or is Lancaster a special case because of the Lancastrian (and Yorkist) claims to the throne during the so-called Wars of the Roses? Is there, for example, a present-day Duke of York?

BTW, there *were* heirs to the House of Lancaster after the death of Henry VI, but they did not include Henry Tudor, the future Henry VII. The nearest heirs (through John of Gaunt's eldest daughter, Philippa) were Joanna of Portugal (who would have married Richard III had he survived the Battle of Bosworth Field) and her brother John, king of Portugal. Obviously, though, the dukedom of Lancaster didn't pass to these non-English descendants.

Carol, whose knowledge of English royal houses centers on the medieval monarchs