The real Mitford Sisters - Debo 6

Never Heard Of Her · May 27, 2026 · 32m

⚔️🍌From the Glorious Revolution to going bananas: The Cavendishes rising through the ranks 👑🏰

Every dynasty has a starting point, and this week we are tracing the origins of the family Debo married into. We go right back to the formidable Bess of Hardwick and William Cavendish, the Tudor power couple who laid the first stones of Chatsworth.

We’ll explore how they cleverly made their way into an Earldom, and the massive political gamble during the Glorious Revolution that finally earned them a Dukedom. As it turns out, to become a Duke, you have to do some pretty heavy lifting—historically…