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Alexander Duff, 1. Duke of Fife Alexander Duff, 1. Duke of Fife und seine Gemahlin Prinzessin Louise von Großbritannien und Irland Der Duke und die Duchess of Fife mit ihren Töchtern Maud und Alexandra um 1900 Wappen des Alexander Duff, 1.
Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on November 10, 1849. He was the only son of James Duff, 5th Earl Fife and Lady Agnes Hay, daughter of William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll and Lady Elizabeth FitzClarence, an illegitimate daughter of King William IV and his mistress Dorothea Jordan.
Duke of Fife is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom that has been created twice, in both cases for Alexander Duff, 1st Earl of Fife. In 1889, Lord Fife married Princess Louise, the eldest daughter of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
Alexander William George Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, (10 November 1849 – 29 January 1912) styled Viscount Macduff between 1857 and 1879 and known as the Earl Fife between 1879 and 1889, was a Scottish nobleman and peer who married Princess Louise, the third child and eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.
Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, was the only son of James Duff, 5th Earl of Fife, and Lady Agnes Georgiana Hay, whose mother was a natural daughter of William IV. He married, in 1889, Princess Louise of Wales, eldest daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Photograph of Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife (1849-1912), seated and facing three-quarters left. He holds a cane in his right hand. On his left is also seated Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife (1867-1931), facing the viewer and holding the hilt of a parasol in her left hand.
The portrait by Lafayette of Alexander William George Duff, 1st Duke of Fife and Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife in costume of the period of Henri II is photogram #10 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "The Duke of Fife / H.R.H.
