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The Duke's Mistress

In the main plot, Dionisio Farnese, the Duke of Parma, tries to dismiss his faithful wife Euphemia and win Ardelia as his mistress.


1836 Grand Liverpool Steeplechase

The winning horse was The Duke, ridden by Captain Martin Becher in the violet with white sleeves and cap colours of Mr Sirdefield, the landlord of the George Inn in Great Crosby and was trained privately.

Anne Gascoigne

Anne Gascoigne and her husband, Sir Thomas Fairfax, are common ancestors of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

Both Flesh and Not

Wallace mentions Omensetter’s Luck by William H. Gass (1966); Steps by Jerzy Kosinski (1968); Angels by Denis Johnson (1983); Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy (1985); and Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson (1988).

Ian Punnett

After college, under the pseudonym "Ian Case" (his first and middle names transposed), he co-hosted rock morning radio shows on WXLP in the Quad Cities called Ian Case and the Coach and then Ian Case and The Duke with Mike "The Duke" Donegan on then-rock music station WKDF in Nashville, Tennessee in the early-to-mid-1990s.

Patrick Harverson

Patrick Richard Harverson LVO is Communications Secretary to TRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, in addition to being Official Spokesman to TRHs The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

Satan's Mistress

The film was released the same year as the similarly themed The Entity, differing in that the sex in Satan's Mistress is consensual.

It is about a sexually frustrated housewife, Lisa (played by actress Lana Wood), who having been distanced from her husband (Don Galloway as Carl) begins having nightly trysts with an apparition that gradually takes on the form of a tall, dark stranger (played by Kabir Bedi of Octopussy) who turns out to be a ghost from the other side.

Seychelles Coast Guard

In May 2011, the SCG helped to protect the privacy of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge during their honeymoon on the North Island.

St Salvator's Hall

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (then Prince William and Catherine Middleton) lived in St Salvator's Hall during their time at the university.

The President's Mistress

In Moscow, an agent in the Kremlin manages to get hold of a secret document identifying Donna Morton as a KGB agent sent to spy on the president.

Westerleigh, Staten Island

Heiress Amy Vanderbilt also once lived there, as does minor b-movie actor Brian "the Duke" Crimmins.


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