# Buckingham — Twenty Years After character guide

> Buckingham in Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Duke of Buckingham

**First appearance:** 0000-i-the-ghost-of-cardinal-richelieu

## Who they are

The late Duke, mentioned in connection with Anne of Austria.

## In the story

### [Anne of Austria at the Age of Forty-Six](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/chapters/iv-anne-of-austria-at-the-age-of-forty-six)

Referenced through the relics: the knife used in his assassination and the letters he received from the queen.

### [Cardinal Mazarin as King](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/chapters/lxxxi-cardinal-mazarin-as-king)

Buckingham is alluded to by Mazarin as a past love of Anne, used to humiliate her.

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