Ampersand royalty?  Here's "His Grace the Dook of Ampassy-Etcetera" (All the Year Round, Sept. 22, 1866).  It's a page from our rare collection of ampersand lore, entitled simply Ampersand.  So extraordinary are the nuggests we gathered that a prominent website dedicated to ampersands was afraid to review our book, thinking we had made it all up.  They didn't realize the pleasure we take in citing legitimate sources; that's what makes our painstaking research so much fun — to uncover incredible truths that we can actually back up.  Meanwhile, a courteous bow to Duke Ampersand may be in order.  (By the way, the Duke's name, "Ampassy-Etcetera," is one of the great many surprising synonyms for "ampersand" that we have collected in our book.  We're honored that our glossary was reproduced in Edvin Thungren's book The Ampersand.)