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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Did 15-year-old Duke have secret daughter... with his half-sister?

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Claims have been made that Jonny Dalkeith, father of the 10th Duke of Buccleuch (pictured), had a love child with the grandmother of an asphalter from Kettering.

But that, Calder says, fails to take into account a love affair in the 1930s — between his grandmother, a maid in domestic service, and Johnny, the Earl of Dalkeith. Richard Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch, pictured with Queen Camilla, is the son of Johnny, the Earl of Dalkeith, who is said to have fathered a daughter in 1939 when he was 15 The 10th Duke of Buccleuch owns more than 200,000 acres and four ancestral seats, including Boughton House — 'the English Versailles' — in Northamptonshire

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