That's terrible to hear fire nonny, but I, an icicle you've never met, am proud of you and your fellow volunteers for trying to do the right thing.

Does Duchess control the flight's funds? From my limited perspective, if Duchess only has power over the dom team because of a title and some history, then it should be pretty straightforward to collectively go "no, we're not going to listen to you anymore, we don't need you" and take some independence back, right?