He Presented His Mistress As The New Duchess Before His Wife—The College Of Arms Had Other Plans

Before three hundred assembled guests, the Duke of Ashcombe presented his mistress as the new Duchess, certain that sheer confidence and public spectacle would overwhelm whatever legal reality stood in his way. He never expected his wife to have quietly alerted England's oldest heraldic institution weeks in advance. By the time the herald walked through those doors, it wasn't Eleanor's title that was in question — it was every assumption her husband had built his entire scheme upon. Subscribe for more emotional aristocratic drama, betrayal, revenge, and powerful duchess stories.