If they did, my parents would be out of a job and we'd have a new duke.
Clearly, the new Duke had some problems, at least with his image.
Naturally, the new duke would be his father's man in all things.
You might allow for the possibility that the new duke led a just and necessary revolution.
What's more, the new duke is the old duke's younger brother.
He listened in silence, waiting to see what his new Duke would suggest.
"Has anyone heard who might be the new duke?"
The new Duke was forced to buy them back.
The new Duke thus inherited little but the titles and the right to raise a private army.
The new duke steered clear of most politics, except in two instances.