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{{CharacterTab}}{{Infobox character
|species = Imaginary Friend
|gender = Female
|image = Duchess stock art.png
|alias = Icky Von Yuck Yuck<br>Blickey McBarf<br>Grossie Grossenstein<br>Ol' Ug-Mug<br>Her Royal Majesty<br>Your Horrible Hideousness<br>Queeny<br>Princess<br>The Dragon Lady<br>Dearie<br>Your Duchessness<br>Edwina (by [[Bloo]])
|eye color = 110011
|creator =Unknown 
|portrayer = [[wikipedia:Grey Delisle|Grey DeLisle]]
|appearance = "[[House of Bloo's]]"
|episode = 19
|name = Duchess
|voice=[[wikipedia:Grey DeLisle|Grey DeLisle]]<br>Natsuko Tsuge → Tomo Shigematsu (Japanese)|first appearance="[[House of Bloo's]]"|last appearance="[[The Bloo Superdude and the Great Creator of Everything's Awesome Ceremony of Fun That He's Not Invited To]]"|likes=Putting clothes in the dirty dishwater<br>being a piece of work<br>making propositions<br>hooking up<br>getting rid of Mac and Bloo<br>adoption<br>grouch food<br>victory<br>treasures<br>spitting mouthwash when she's angry<br>France<br>being snobby<br>having tea parties<br>wanting to get adopted by a rich family<br>revenge<br>money<br>putting everyone in danger|dislikes=Millionaire's Daughter<br>being a work of art<br>listening to Terrence's ignorant critique of high art<br>being called "Queeny"<br>being called "Princess"<br>[[Mac]] and [[Bloo]]<br>whoopee cushions<br>spitting mouthwash probably<br>Coco Flakes<br>the Applebees<br>1123 Wilson Way<br>mud<br>not getting adopted<br>anyone at Foster's<br>wild parties|friends=[[Terrence]]<br>[[Barry Bling]] (formerly)<br>[[Extremosaur]]|enemies=[[Bloo]]<br>[[Mac]]<br>[[Cheese]]<br>[[Frankie Foster]]<br>[[Mr. Herriman]]<br>[[Eduardo]]<br>[[Wilt]]<br>[[Coco]]<br>[[Madame Foster]]<br>[[Berry]]|age={{age|1985|02|01}}|birthday=February 1, 1985|home=Fosters Home for a Imaginary Friends|fullname=Diamond Persnickety|nickname=Icky Von Yuck Yuck<br>Blickey McBarf<br>Grossie Grossenstein<br>Ol' Ug-Mug<br>Her Royal Majesty<br>Your Horrible Hideousness<br>Queeny<br>Princess<br>The Dragon Lady<br>Dearie<br>Your Duchessness<br>Edwina (by [[Bloo]]) ([[Bloo]])|occupation=Mastermind|pronouns=|status=Alive}}'''''Her Royal Duchess Diamond Persnickety, the First, Last and Only''''', or simply '''Duchess''' (referred to by her full name in the pilot movie), is the secondary antagonist of ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]''. She speaks with a German accent and is voiced by Grey DeLisle.



==Personality==
This imaginary friend is a scheming, snobby, pompous, stuck-up, vain, conceited, negative, extremely rude, short-tempered, arrogant, selfish, self-centered, mean [[wikipedia:Picasso|Picasso]]-like pain-in-the-neck who is literally [[wikipedia:Two-dimensional|two-dimensional]] when she turns her head or body (however, she is not two-dimensional in the pilot movie, "[[House of Bloo's]]"). She's considered a "high-maintenance" friend, not wanting to do anything for herself, and is so lazy that she needs somebody to open her eyelids when she wakes up. The residents seem to follow her commands because she is both able and willing to scream incredibly loud for an indefinite period of time without rest unless she gets what she wants, as was seen when she lived next door to [[Mac]] and was able to yell nonstop from him going to bed to him waking up, revealing a rather spoiled and annoying side to her personality. In a few episodes, she has helped someone, but only so that she could help herself, thus for selfish reasons. For example, in "[[Affair Weather Friends]]", she told Mac about [[Bloo]] hanging out with "[[Barry Bling]]" (aka [[Berry]] in disguise) behind his back. Duchess is considered one of the worst imaginary friends due to her ugliness and evilness.

In the pilot, she and [[Terrence]] conspire to get rid of Bloo after the millionaire's spoiled daughter wanted to adopt him instead of Duchess, who was chosen by her mother and father. As punishment for trying to get rid of Bloo, she was not kicked out of the house, but rather was forced to stay as she desires to leave.

Despite her desire to leave, Duchess insults almost everyone who tries to adopt her except for the rich family in the pilot and Barry Bling in "Affair Weather Friends", showing that while she badly wants to leave, she doesn't want to live in any less pampered lifestyle she would be forced to give up if she went home with a normal family (In other words, she wants to be adopted by a rich family). Everyone else desires her to leave very badly, however, so much so that [[Mr. Herriman]] spends the entire budget for advertising adoption on her, even saying that they will pay a family to take her.

== Appearance ==
Duchess has yellow skin, a long neck, a beauty mark, a trunk-like nose, a mouth that is turned sideways and two eyes, one of which appears to be upside down. 

She wears a white turban with a ruby in it, light blue and purple eyeshadow, pink blush, red lipstick, green and black striped earrings, a blue and red pearl necklace and bracelet, a white dress with black triangles on it, two black bracelets, red nail polish, black and green striped leggings, and black high heels. Her appearance is based off of Picasso's artwork.

==Episode Appearances==
===Season 1===
*”[[House of Bloo's]]”
*”[[Dinner Is Swerved]]”
*”[[World Wide Wabbit]]” (non-speaking cameo)

===Season 2===
*”[[Partying is Such Sweet Soiree]]”
*”[[Where There's a Wilt, There's a Way]]” (non-speaking cameo)
*”[[Bloo's Brothers]]” (non-speaking cameo)
*”[[Beat With a Schtick]]” (non-speaking cameo)
*”[[Bloo Done It]]”
*”[[My So Called Wife]]”

===Season 3===
*”[[Duchess of Wails]]”
*”[[Land of the Flea]]” (non-speaking cameo)

===Season 4===
*”[[The Big Picture]]”
*”[[The Big Cheese]]” (non-speaking cameo)

===Season 5===
*”[[The Bloo Superdude and the Magic Potato of Power!]]” (non-speaking cameo)
*”[[The Bride to Beat]]”
*”[[Affair Weather Friends]]”
*”[[Better Off Ed]]” (non-speaking cameo)

===Season 6===
*”[[Destination Imagination]]” (non-speaking cameo)
*”[[The Bloo Superdude and the Great Creator of Everything's Awesome Ceremony of Fun That He's Not Invited To]]”

==Trivia==
*Her voice is identical to Grandma Stuffum from ''Codename: Kids Next Door''.
*There is a running gag where she believes she is the most beautiful in the world, only for everyone else to consider her extremely ugly.
*Her skin appears to be a paler shade of yellow in season 5. However, in the widescreen HD versions of the season's episodes as seen on HBO Max, her skin color has been changed to better match her appearance in the rest of the series.
**This also applies to various other yellow elements, such as [[Myopic Patootie]] and [[Sunset Junction]]'s clothing.
*She can control [[Extremeasaur|Extremosaurs]], as seen in "[[House of Bloo's]]".
*Among the main characters, Duchess is one of the characters that never was arrested and jailed during the series. The others are [[Frankie Foster]], [[Goo]], [[Cheese]] and [[Terrence]].
*Duchess' golden trading card statistics in the ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (Leapster)|Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'' Leapster game are:
**Is disliked by everyone at Foster's. (even [[Wilt]], but he's sorry)
**Demands that [[Madame Foster]] make her a new dress every day.
**Doesn't like anyone at Foster's.
**Loves being waited on hand and foot.
* Despite what her golden trading card says, Duchess surprisingly bears no animosity towards [[Uncle Pockets]], considering him "tolerable", though she doesn't necessarily like him either.
* It is possible that Duchess has a very good sense of smell, considering that she is able to smell money.
*Duchess doesn't appear in the series finale "[[Goodbye to Bloo]]", unlike all the other main characters on the show. Her final appearance was in "[[The Bloo Superdude and the Great Creator of Everything's Awesome Ceremony of Fun That He's Not Invited To]]".

==Gallery==
''[[Duchess/Gallery]]''

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