Duke of Hanover

Dukedom of Hanover
Creation date	14 October 2017
Creation	First
Monarch	Alexandra
Peerage	Peerage of the United Kingdom
First holder	Prince Thomas
Present holder	Prince Thomas
Status	Extant

Duke of Hanover is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 14 October 2017 for the former King Thomas following his abdication on 13 October 2017. The dukedom bears its name from the royal family's name and its ancestral seat, the Kingdom of Hanover.

History

On October 13th 2017, following a prior health complication several days earlier, King Thomas formally abdicated from the throne, with the abdication immediately followed by an Act of Parliament, which confirmed the king's abdication. Soon afterwards, speculations immediately arose as to what the former king would be referred to as since his abdication, as there has traditionally been no set of rules regulating a monarch's abdication. Unlike his father Charles III, whom was allowed to retain his kingship title following his own abdication almost two decades earlier, Thomas opted instead to be styled as a Duke of Hanover, a decision that was later announced at the subsequent Accession Council of the Privy Council.

Thomas's dukedom was formally conferred on to him by his successor Queen Alexandra on December 22nd of the same year. While the dukedom itself, by Thomas's own behest, was deemed ineligible to be passed onto his own natural successor, he nevertheless retained the restrictions as a royal duke, in which he is barred from standing for election in the British House of Commons, and that he is disallowed from speaking on political subjects in the upper legislative chamber, namely the House of Lords.

Duke	Portrait	Birth	Marriages	Death
Prince Thomas House of Hanover 2017-Present	Prince Thomas	17 December 1950 Balmoral Castle, Scotland son of King Charles III and Queen Lauren	Christy Turlington 14 June 1995