“The Titles Deprivation Act (1917) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom which authorised enemies of the United Kingdom during the First World War to be deprived of their British peerages and royal titles.”(Wikipedia)
“By the King’s Order in Council of 28 March 1919, the following people were deprived of their titles:
His Royal Highness Charles Edward, Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence and Baron Arklow.
His Royal Highness Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, and Earl of Armagh.
His Highness Prince Ernest Augustus of Cumberland (son and heir-apparent of the Duke of Cumberland).
Henry, Viscount Taaffe of Corren and Baron of Ballymote.” (Wikipedia)
None of the above or their descendants have petitioned the Crown to have their titles restored and many are now extinct. Subsequently no male members of the Royal Family lost their Royal Highness rank until Prince Andrew stopped using HRH in 2022, although it was not formally taken away.
Ernest Augustus, 3rd Duke of Cumberland (1845 – 1923), is the son of George V, King of Hanover until 1866, when Hanover was annexed by Prussia after the Austro-Prussian War in which Hanover at the King’s behest joined the losing side. To digress, George V was baptised in Berlin by Jane Austen’s brother, fancy that, and is George III, King of England’s, grandson. He is buried in St George’s Chapel, Windsor. Queen Victoria made his son, the Duke of Cumberland, a Knight of the Garter and a general in the British army. However, he sought restoration to his Hanoverian throne and took the side of Germany in World War One, only abdicating from the throne he never sat on when the Kaiser abdicated in 1918.
The only memorial to the Duke of Cumberland was a pub of that name on the south side of Parsons Green. It is called Duke on the Green today but a bust of the Duke of Cumberland can be seen, not very clearly, in front of an attic window.
The pub boasts (?) a blue plaque but not to commemorate the Duke. Frankly I wouldn’t advertise my excellence more than fifty years ago, awarded by a “newspaper” that’s free today and serves only to decorate the streets with litter. To be fair, D on the G welcomed Bertie, is comfy, has a good ambience, sausage and mash and crumble with lots of fruit.
Didn’t Ernst August marry the Kaiser’s only daughter & briefly sit on the throne of Brunswick? Also there’s at least one case of a British royal title being removed at the holder’s request – HRH Princess Patricia of Connaught, who asked to become a commoner on her marriage to a humble naval officer named Ramsay…
Had no idea that Mrs Ramsay and Princess Patricia (as in Princess Patrica’s Light Infantry…a crack Canadian regiment )…also known as Please Protect oOur Little Infantry in some circles of armored corp.
Though she renounced her royal status she was still the daughter of a duke, so was henceforth known as Lady Patricia Ramsay.
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