Yuratuhl wrote:
Impossible. If the former lord of Sandwich was an earl, his heir (regardless of gender) would likewise be an earl. Because of the way peerage works, even if the presumed eldest-daughter (and first child) of the Earl of Sandwich married a duke and in so doing became a duchess, she'd be the duchess of his territory, but remain the earl of Sandwich when it came to that territory.
If the above happened, she could certainly be the Duchess of sandwich-making, but it would have to stay lowercase. Or we'd need the Queen of England to reorganize the earldoms of Sandwich and Making (there's no earldom of Making but work with me here) into a duchy, at which point the heir of Sandwich would become the Duchess of Sandwich Making.
The fault in your reasoning is that the question was who is the Duchess of Sandwich making. Since the Earl of Sandwich is off doing his thing, it logically follows that the Duchess of Sandwich must be making the Heir with someone else.
Of course, for her to be making the Heir, she'd have to pass it off as his own son.
This leaves two possibilities:
1. The Earl is a late-night gamer, and thus would offer her no opportunity to pretense him being the sire. She could circumvent this by indulging him in every gamer's fantasy of shagging during the game.
2. The Earl of Sandwich is, in fact, Jubber.
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Are we going too far? And I find myself suddenly curious if you have these kinds of exercises in the ludicrous in procedure or whatever?
