Attention: Age supérieur à 100 (103).
Elle est mariée avec Henry William Frederick Albert Prince of Great Britain & Ireland.
Ils se sont mariés le 6 novembre 1935 à Buckingham Palace, London, England, elle avait 33 ans.
Enfant(s):
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, died quietly in her sleep at
Kensington Palace late on Friday night surrounded by her immediate family. The Princess was 102 years old and thus was the oldest British royal in history. She was born as Lady Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott, daughter of the 7th Earl of Buccleauch and 9th Duke of Queensberry and Lady Margaret Bridgeman, in London on December 25, 1901. She spent her childhood between the family's houses: Boughton and Bowhill as well as Drumlanrig. As an adult she spent several months in Kenya and also spent time in India. She made a brief and illegal excursion to Afghanistan disguised in an Afghan coat and cap. In the spring of 1935, summoned home because of her father's failing health, she met again Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester, third son of King George V of Great Britain. On November 6, 1935 she married him. Among the bridesmaids were the later Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Princess Margaret. During the Second World War Princess Alice worked with the Red Cross and the Order of St John. She was a trained member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment, was deputy to the Queen as Commandant in Chief of the Nursing Corps and Divisions of the St John Ambulance Brigade, and was closely involved in the Women's Voluntary Service for Civil Defence. She was commissioned in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force in 1940, becoming its head in 1943. She held the rank of Air Chief Marshal in the WRAF. She held honorary appointments and ranks in the armed services, including Colonel-in-Chief of The Royal Hussars, the King's Own Scottish Borderers and the Royal Corps of Transport. After two miscarriages the couple had two sons: William (1941-1972) and Richard (1944). The Duke of Gloucester died in 1974. Since 1995 the princess, who had lived at Branwell Manor since 1938, moved to Kensington Palace to be with her son Richard, his wife and three children. In the past ten years she hardly appeared in public anymore. Her body is to remain in a private chapel at Kensington Palace while funeral arragements are being made.
Princess Alice Duchess of Gloucester was buried toay. The private funeral ceremony was conducted at 11:00 am by the Dean of Windsor at St George's Chapel, Windsor. The Dean paid tribute to her "capacity to override suffering", her "sense of fun and her love of people, particularly the young". Hymns The Lord's My Shepherd, Love Divine and O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go, were sung. The National Anthem was played at the end of the service and buglers sounded the Last Post and Reveille. The coffin was draped in a royal standard and decorated with a floral display of cream roses and ivy laid by her immediate family. It was borne from the chapel by members of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, the regiment of which Princess Alice was Colonel-in-Chief. Apart from the descendants of Princess Alice the funeral was attended by among others Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Earl and Countess of Wessex, the Princess Royal, Prince and Princess Michael of Kent and Princess Alexandra of Kent. Following the funeral ceremony Princess Alice was buried privately at Frogmore in Windsor's Home Park next to her husband Henry Duke of Gloucester and her elder son Prince William. A memorial service will be held at a later date.
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