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Use this image. Queen Alexandra; Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife. by W. & D. Downey. albumen carte-de-visite, September 1868. On display in Room 22 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery. NPG Ax46173.
26 de feb. de 2017 · On this day in 1959, Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife died in London. Born the eldest daughter of Princess Louise, Princess Royal and the Duke of Fife in 1891, Princess Alexandra was a female-line granddaughter of King Edward VII, and niece of King George V and Queen Maud of Norway. Until 1905, Alexandra and her sister, Maud, bore the ...
Duchess of Fife Alexandra Victoria Alberta Edwina Louise was born at East Sheen Lodge, Richmond, on 17 May 1891 and was the daughter of Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, and Louise, Princess Royal . Since Alexandra’s only brother had been stillborn in 1890 and no other male heirs were likely, the dukedom and marquessate of Fife were heading for extinction as females were ineligible to ...
The Duke of Fife caught a chill that developed into pleurisy and died at Assuan, Egypt in January 1912. His eldest daughter Princess Alexandra succeeded to his dukedom, becoming Duchess of Fife in her own right. Louise, Princess Royal became more reclusive after her husband's death. She was taken ill in the autumn of 1929 at Mar Lodge with a ...
Speed. 17 knots. PS Duchess of Fife was a paddle steamer built in 1903 for the Caledonian Steam Packet Company. She spent most of her career serving passenger routes in the Firth of Clyde and was requisitioned for use as a minesweeper during both World Wars. In 1940 she took part in the Dunkirk evacuation, rescuing a total of 1,633 allied troops.
Daughter of Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, and Princess Louise of Wales; given the title Princess in 1905 by her grand-father Edward VII; succeeded to her father's dukedom after his death in 1912, becoming Duchess of Fife and Countess of Macduff in her own right. In 1913 married Prince Arthur of Connaught (q.v.). During the First World War ...
Princess Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife was the eldest daughter and third child of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom and Alexandra of Denmark...
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