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Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (Henry William Frederick Albert; 31 March 1900 – 10 June 1974) was a member of the British royal family.He was the third son of King George V and Queen Mary, and was a younger brother of kings Edward VIII and George VI.He served as Governor-General of Australia from 1945 to 1947, the only prince to hold the post.. Henry was the first son of a British monarch to be educated at school, where he excelled at sports, and went on to attend Eton College, after ...
Mar 8, 2022 · 1. He May Have Had Fangs. Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, was born on March 31, 1900. His father was about to become the King of England and his mother?
1900 – 1974. Prince Henry was born on 31 March 1900, at York Cottage, on the Sandringham Estate.His parents were King George V and Queen Mary, his father was at the time of George's birth, Prince of Wales, son of King Edward VII and his Danish-born wife Queen Alexandra.His mother, who was then Princess of Wales was the daughter of Francis, Duke of Teck, a morganatic scion of the House of Wurttemberg who was of German and Hungarian descent and a distant descendant of Vlad Dracul.
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, KG, KT, KP, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GCStJ, PC, ADC (Henry William Frederick Albert; 31 March 1900 – 10 June 1974) was an English royal and politician. He was the third son and fourth child of King George V and Queen Mary.He was Governor-General of Australia from 1945 to 1947, the only member of the British royal family to hold the post.. Prince Henry died on 10 June 1974 from problems caused by multiple strokes at Barnwell Manor in Northamptonshire at the age of 74.
The Duke of Gloucester is the late Queen Elizabeth II’s cousin and a full-time working member of the Royal Family. He attends national and international events in support of The King and his duties as Head of State, as well as undertaking extensive public duties and engagements every year reflecting his own interests and charities.
Duke of Gloucester (/ ˈ ɡ l ɒ s t ər / ⓘ GLOST-ər) is a British royal title (after Gloucester), often conferred on one of the sons of the reigning monarch.The first four creations were in the Peerage of England and the last in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; the current creation carries with it the subsidiary titles of Earl of Ulster and Baron Culloden.. The title was first conferred on Thomas of Woodstock, the thirteenth child of King Edward III.The title became extinct at his ...
Jun 14, 2024 · The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince of Wales, Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, the Duke of Kent and Prince Michael of Kent followed the Carriage through Windsor Castle to St. George’s Chapel.. The Duke’s funeral was carried out with military precision. Six matched black horses drew the body on a gun carriage through a Windsor lined with troops, leaning with bowed heads on reversed arms.
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Richard Alexander Walter George; born 26 August 1944) is a member of the British royal family.He is the second son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, the youngest of the nine grandchildren of George V, nephew of Edward VIII and George VI, and first cousin of Elizabeth II.He is 31st in the line of succession to the British throne, and the highest person on the list who is not a descendant of George VI.At the time ...
Jun 11, 1974 · Albert, Henry William Frederick (Duke of Gloucester) Soldier and Horseman. By ALDEN WHITMAN. The least well known of the sons of King George V, the Duke of Gloucester was a keen and hard‐working ...
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, (Henry William Frederick Albert; 31 March 1900 – 10 June 1974) was a soldier and third son of King George V and Queen Mary. Under the terms of the Regency Act 1937, the Duke would have been named regent for his niece, Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II), if his brother, King George VI, had died before Elizabeth reached her 18th birthday; he was also eligible to serve as a Counsellor of State from 1937 to 1974 (his death), if the monarch were ...
