Cambridges

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proper noun

The family of the Duke of Cambridge.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

proper nounthe Cambridges pl (plural only)
  1. informalpluralplural onlyThe family of the Duke of Cambridge.

    The first significant moment in the Cambridges’ diary was their son’s Christening on 23 October 2013.

    2014, Robert Jobson, The New Royal Family: Prince George, William and Kate, The Next Generation, John Blake Publishing, →ISBN
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    “I then spoke with Lord Melbourne,” wrote the Queen on September 8, 1838, “about the Cambridges, and about George, and if I ought to ask him to stay, which Ma hinted at.”

    1838 September 8, Giles St. Aubyn, editor, The Royal George, 1819-1904: The Life of H.R.H. Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, published 1963, page 33

    The Cambridges are here, the whole family, Duke and Duchess, Prince George and Princess Mary, the latter really very pretty; […]

    1848 January 5, Eleanor Stanley, Twenty Years at Court: From the Correspondence of the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, Maid of Honour to Her Late Majesty Queen Victoria, 1842-1862, pages 162–163
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