Duke Clarke Hammel

"Your Majesty, I'm very sorry about your fate....And as for your head, though I may not see it now, I can see the expression on your face as you sit down and talk so bravely to me about it...no doubt that it must be filled with tears, grey with death and envy, your voice hoarse and strained from such a traumatic event. It seems you are deeply restless over the loss of your head, dear friend. And through the power of whatever may be supernatural, that one night you will not have to roam around the streets and roads, desperately moaning and searching throughout the night. You have my word for it."
-Baron, to the tortured soul of the Duke, meeting the last of his former love's victims
Duke Clarke Hammel, also referred to as Duke Hammel, Mr. Hammel or "your majesty" by Baron (even though he wasn't a king), is a minor character in the side plot of Battle Of the Bones, and a ghost in the SHTM series. He is one of Baron Rivers's unlikely friends before Maria had beheaded him and took away his head, making him the last of Maria's Victims. He was fond of Baron's storytelling; and admired him for his use of vocabulary and maturity.
Background:
Appearances:
The deceased Duke makes an appearance in the ending of Battle Of the Bones; when George and Baron go out from the comforts of the facility to take a look at the spirits of their friends who had fell victim to Maria Leife. The last of these victims being the Duke himself, and was the youngest of doing so, his life cut off at his early 60's (birthday being in September). Baron was close to the Duke when alive, and the castle in which he formerly ruled was abandoned and turned into a restaurant in Britain. When Baron tells a living worker the presence for which he came; he automatically heard a disembodied voice whisper upon the wind;
"Follow me, good fellows."
George and Baron head to where they hear the voice; and a black glove closes the door softly. George and Baron pass through this door (since they are ghosts); and see a terrifying sight before them, leaving both of the ghostly men gasping.
Stirring in the room was a tall figure, as tall as Baron was, wearing adorned royal leather boots. It's attire seemed of a royal duke's; only discolored and white/grey. A frilly ascot hung loose about it's neck. The neck was about it though- for the figure had no head! All that was there was a bloody stump where the head used to be (think of Lost Her Way), it's blood oozing onto the ascot and it's royal suit. Upon the figure's shoulders, buttoned, was a cloak of soft black velvet. The cloak's end hung to about his calves, and over it's hands were black gloves, as for riding a horse or it was too cold indoors. Baron immediately recognized this figure for it's attire and the cloak; this was the dead departed Duke Clarke Hammel; the last of Maria's unfortunate victims. Unlike the other ghosts in the series, the Duke's voice isn't a solid voice, but what Bluey describes to be "quiet, like an echo upon the wind". This is due to his death, Maria had severed the Duke's head near his larynx- or voice box- making his spirit unable to speak. Instead of nodding his head (which he usually did as a sign of agreement or boredom in life), the headless spirit now nods his shoulders up and down, as if sighing. 
Floating upwards, the headless Duke shows the duo a photo in a portrait of him taken most likely years before his death. He then explains that the portrait WAS of him, 20 years prior his death- "before I met this wretched existence".