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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 who was an illegitimate daughter of King William IV and his mistress Dorothea Jordan.
Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife [edit | edit source] Family name: Duff; Duke of Fife (U.K. peerage, created 1st 29 July 1889, 2 days after the wedding, remainder to "heirs male of his body"; created 2nd 24 April 1900, remainder to daughters of Louise and their male heirs) Viscount Macduff (1857–1879) The 6th Earl Fife (1879–1889)
Fils de James Duff et d' Agnes Hay (en) (petite-fille du roi Guillaume IV du Royaume-Uni et de sa maîtresse Dorothea Jordan ), il étudie au Eton College . Il est membre de la Chambre des communes de 1874 à 1879. En 1879, il succède à son père dans le titre de comte Fife et à la Chambre des lords. Il est créé duc de Fife en 1889.
Alexander William George Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, KG, KT, GCVO, VD, PC (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 British peer who married Princess Louise, the third child and eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.
Lineage and early life Princess Alexandra. Alexandra's father was Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife.Having succeeded his father as the 6th Earl Fife, he was elevated to Duke of Fife and Marquess of Macduff in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on his marriage in 1889 to Princess Louise of Wales, the eldest daughter of the future Edward VII.
Alexander William George Duff, 1st Duke of Fife,KG, KT, GCVO, PC (10 November 1849 - 12 January 1912) was a Scottish peer who married Princess Louise of Wales, the third child and eldest daughter of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom and Queen Alexandra.
The Duke and Duchess of Fife, 1889 Despite her mother's attempts to keep her daughters unmarried and by her side, on Saturday 27 July 1889, Louise married Alexander Duff, 6th Earl Fife , who was eighteen years her senior, at the Private Chapel in Buckingham Palace with the Archbishop of Canterbury officiating at the service. [8]
