Archduke

The Archduke of Scotland told Shakespeare he should give up play-writing right before he wrote the famous tragedy Hamlet.

The man usually gives the woman a diamond engagement ring. That tradition is said to have started when Archduke Maximilian of Austria gave a diamond ring to the woman he wanted to marry. The diamond represented beauty.

The assassination of the Archduke precipitated the outbreak of World War I.

World War I traditionally started with the assassination of Archduke Francis (Franz) Ferdinand.