These billionaire heroes often have the same qualities as many other romance heroes, be they Regency Duke, vampire, military hero, fireman or pirate.
These days it seems the ever popular historical romance genre has become dominated by dangerously seductive Regency era dukes.
On his deathbed in 1792, Gustav III entrusted his son to Armfelt and made him a member of the council of regency; but the duke-regent Charles (afterward Charles XIII) sent Armfelt as Swedish ambassador to Naples to get rid of him.
James was killed fighting the English in 1513, and Margaret then ruled for her infant son, James V. Her marriage in 1514 to Archibald Douglas, earl of Angus, a partisan of England, gave the Scottish Parliament an excuse to replace her in the regency with John Stewart, duke of Albany, the leader of the pro-French party.
The son of the assassinated Gustav III, Gustav IV came to the throne in 1792 under the regency of his uncle Charles, duke of Södermanland.
In Regency England, the famous guy was the duke.
The following year, as Charles' bouts of illness became more severe and prolonged, Isabeau became the leader of the regency council, giving her power over the royal dukes and the Constable of France, while at the same time making her vulnerable to attack from various court factions.
Anna Maria Luisa was offered a nominal regency by the Prince de Craon, the Grand Duke's envoy, until Francis III could arrive in Florence, but declined.
After the latter's death, the duke was again excluded (1907) and the regency continued.
