I don't recall seeing Dame Lastname, but I have seen the male equivalent, Sir Lastname, which gives the the person saying it an air of not being able to speak English.
It's true that awkward foreign inheritances like Kaiser Wilhelm's would be unlikely to happen today, given that the regal practice of marrying daughters off to foreign potentates to seal alliances has fallen into abeyance. (The last time it was done to a British princess was in 1896.) I just find the irony amusing. And it's very interesting historically, given that inheritances by the lines of women who'd been married off this way explains how the Scottish Stuarts and the German Hanoverians came to the English throne.
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It's true that awkward foreign inheritances like Kaiser Wilhelm's would be unlikely to happen today, given that the regal practice of marrying daughters off to foreign potentates to seal alliances has fallen into abeyance. (The last time it was done to a British princess was in 1896.) I just find the irony amusing. And it's very interesting historically, given that inheritances by the lines of women who'd been married off this way explains how the Scottish Stuarts and the German Hanoverians came to the English throne.