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On This Day In Royal History . 25 April 1776 . Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh was born . ◼ Princess Mary was born, on 25 April 1776, at Buckingham Palace, London. Her father was the reigning British monarch, George III. Her mother was Queen Charlotte, the daughter of Charles, reigning Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. . ◼ Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh was the 11th child & fourth daughter of King George III of the United Kingdom. . ◼ She married her first cousin, Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester & Edinburgh, when both were 40, & was his widow in later life. . ◼ In her last years, her niece, Victoria, was on the throne as the fourth monarch during Mary’s life, after her father & two of her brothers. . ◼ Princess Mary was the longest-lived (at 81 years) & last survivor of George III’s fifteen children; of those fifteen issue, thirteen lived to adulthood. . ◼ She died on 30 April 1857 at Gloucester House, London. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1776 #Princessmary #DuchessofGloucester #DuchessofEdinburgh #HouseofHanover #History #BritishMonarchy #d25apr #otd #OnThisDay #historyinpictures #Monarchy #RoyalHistory #RoyalFamily #Royalty #Royals #BritishRoyals #BuckinghamPalace #london #GreatBritain #Britain #BritishRoyalFamily #Britishroyalty #Princess #Royal #lovehistory #Historyfacts #Familyhistory Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2021 (at Buckingham Palace, London) https://www.instagram.com/p/COGb5SpMtQR/?igshid=1dzg3hqs9i1ub

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On This Day In History, . 6 November 1935 . Prince Henry married Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott . . 👑 Prince Henry was the third son of King George V and Queen Mary. Lady Alice was the daughter of John Montagu Douglas Scott, the 7th Duke of Buccleuch, Scotland’s largest landowner, & Lady Margaret Bridgeman. . ◼ The couple were married in a private ceremony, in the Private Chapel, Buckingham Palace . The Portrait includes; . Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901-2004) . 'Bridesmaid', Lady Angela Christine Rose Dawnay (née Montagu Douglas Scott) (1906-2000) . 'Bridesmaid', Princess Elizabeth, now Queen Elizabeth II (1926-) . King George V (1865-1936), Reigned 1910-36 . 'Bridesmaid', Clare Margaret Hadow (née Phipps) (1920-2006), Wife of David George Hadow; daughter of Charles Bathurst Hele Phipps and Lady Sybil Anne Montagu Douglas Scott . 'Bridesmaid', Anne Hawkins, Daughter of Sir Geoffrey Alan Brooke Hawkins and Lady Margaret Ida Montagu Douglas Scott . Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900-1974) . 'Bridesmaid', Princess Margaret (1930-2002), Daughter of George VI; Countess of Snowdon . Queen Mary (1867-1953), Queen consort of King George V . 'Bridesmaid', Lady Elizabeth Diana Percy (née Montagu-Douglas-Scott), Duchess of Northumberland (1922-2012) . 'Bridesmaid', Moyra Eileen Smiley (née Montagu-Douglas-Scott) (1919-2011) . 'Bridesmaid', Lady Mary Ilona Margaret Whitley (née Cambridge) (1924-1999) . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1935 #RoyalWedding #PrinceHenry #DukeofGloucester #PrincessAlice #DuchessofGloucester #HouseofWindsor #RoyalFamily #BritishMonarchy #D6Nov #Wedding #Royals #WeddingDress #QueenElizabethII #GeorgeV #QueenMary #RoyalHistory #BritishRoyals #RoyalWedding #ElizabethII #TheQueen #PrincessMargaret #buckinghampalace #GeorgeV #KingGeorgeV (at Buckingham Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4ipbFHgbl-/?igshid=1xdz36919r7i8

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On This Day In History . 25 December 1901 . Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester was born . ◼ Lady Alice was born, in Montagu House, Whitehall, London, on Christmas Day 1901 as the third daughter of John Montagu Douglas Scott, Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, and the former Lady Margaret Bridgeman, daughter of George Bridgeman, 4th Earl of Bradford. She was therefore a descendant, in an unbroken male (though illegitimate) line, of King Charles II. . About Alice; . ◼ Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, born Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott; was the wife & then widow of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the third son of George V & Mary of Teck. . ◼ The daughter of the 7th Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry, Scotland’s largest landowner, her brothers Walter & William and her nephew John were all Conservative MP's. She was sister-in-law to Edward VIII & George VI & aunt to Elizabeth II. . ◼ She was the mother of Prince William of Gloucester, who died at age 30, & Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Her first cousin, Marian Montagu Douglas Scott, was the paternal grandmother of Sarah, Duchess of York, wife of Alice’s great-nephew, Prince Andrew, Duke of York. . ◼ Princess Alice's niece, Princess Alexandra, shares the name Christabel in honour of their shared birth date, Christmas Day. . ◼ Princess Alice died on 29 October 2004 in her sleep at Kensington Palace at age 102. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1901 #PrincessAlice #D25Dec #DuchessofGloucester #HouseofWindsor #RoyalFamily #Royalty #britishmonarchy #London #Princess #ChristmasDay #Christmas #Thebritishmonarchy (at Whitehall, London) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br0mf4jlP62/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ku3zs6q9k6gs

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#TheRoyalBirthday Today is the birthday of Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Gloucester she turns 75. _ Birgitte was born Birgitte Eva van Deurs Henriksen, born in 20 June 1946, in Odense, Denmark, the younger daughter of Asger Preben Wissing Henriksen, a lawyer, and his wife, Vivian van Deurs, is a Danish member of the British royal family. She is married to Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. They have three children. • Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster, born 24 October 1974 (46 years), married since of 22 June 2002 to Claire Booth, they have three children • Lady Davina Windsor, born 19 November 1977 (43 years), married Gary Lewis 31 July 2004 , but the couple if Divorced in 2018 , she has two children • Lady Rose Gilman, born 1 March 1980 (41 years), She married George Gilman, since 19 July 2008 The couple have two children. #Britishroyalfamily #DuchessofGloucester #Danishpeople (em Brazil) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQWSaOWn4RD/?utm_medium=tumblr