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The King has conferred the Dukedom of Edinburgh upon his brother, Prince Edward, on his 59th birthday .  What is the history behind the title Duke of Edinburgh?  Duke of Edinburgh, named after the city of Edinburgh in Scotland, is a title that has been created four times since 1726 for members of the British royal family. It does not include any territorial landholdings and does not produce any revenue for the title holder. 1726 creation The title was first created in the Peerage of Great Britain on 26 July 1726 by King George I, who bestowed it on his grandson Prince Frederick , who also became Prince of Wales the following year.   The subsidiary titles of the dukedom were Marquess of the Isle of Ely, Earl of Eltham, in the County of Kent, Viscount of Launceston, in the County of Cornwall, and Baron of Snowdon, in the County of Caernarvon, all of which were also in the Peerage of Great Britain. The marquessate was gazetted as Marquess of the Isle of Wight, apparently err...

Camilla Rosemary Shand was born at King's College Hospital, London, on 17 July 1947. She grew up in The Laines - an 18th-century country house in Plumpton, East Sussex—and a three-storey house in South Kensington, her family's second home.  Family Her parents were British Army officer-turned-businessman Major Bruce Shand and his wife Rosalind, the daughter of Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe.  She has a younger sister, Annabel Elliot, and had a younger brother, Mark Shand.  One of her maternal great-grandmothers, Alice Keppel, was a mistress of King Edward VII from 1898 to 1910.  Camilla's mother was a housewife, while her father had various business interests after retiring from the army. He was most notably a partner in Block, Grey and Block, a firm of wine merchants in South Audley Street, Mayfair, later joining Ellis, Son and Vidler of Hastings and London. Childhood During her childhood, Camilla became an avid reader through the influence of her f...