Isn't the Queen still Duke of Lancaster?
While Lancaster is reckoned to be a duchy (it’s a quirky situation; rather than a dukedom, like the Swedish titles), the title of Duke seems to be used by custom rather than have a definitive legal basis. So, some argue she is not Duke of Lancaster at all.
I would have thought that the Swedish King’s dukedom pre-accession is more like how George VI was Duke of York and ceased to be immediately on his accession.
No idea.
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