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British politician 6th Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, William Henry Walter .

with the Lord Lieutenant of Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale, the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry KBE

JANE, DUCHESS OF BUCCLEUCH AND QUEENSBERRY, who died on April 18 aged 81, was the widow of the 9th Duke of Buccleuch; a woman of great beauty, she sustained her husband after a hunting accident in 1971 confined him to a wheelchair for the remainder of his life.

The women here are part of a select group of 24 who have become duchesses by marrying into the British aristocracy. But, they tell Jane Dismore, their role today is far from tiaras and titles.

He is the largest landowner in Scotland, but it is as a patron of the arts and science that the Duke of Buccleuch would like to be remembered — it is, after all