Which present-day English Duke is a descendant of King Charles II and his mistress Nell Gwynn?
Murray Beauclerk, 14th Duke of St Albans The title Duke of St Albans was created in the Peerage of England in 1684 for the 1st Earl of Burford when he was fourteen years old. King Charles II had accepted that Burford was his illegitimate son by Eleanor Gwynn (commonly known as ‘Nell’) an actress, and awarded him the Dukedom just as he had awarded the Dukedoms of Monmouth, Richmond, Lennox, Southampton and Grafton on his other illegitimate sons.
