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Francis, Duke of Teck, GCB, GCVO (Francis Paul Charles Louis Alexander; 28 August 1837 – 21 January 1900) known as Count Francis von Hohenstein until 1863, was an Austrian-born nobleman who married into the British royal family. His wife, Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, was a first cousin of Queen Victoria. He was the father of Queen Mary, the consort of King George V. Francis held the ...
Prince Alexander of Teck was born at Kensington Palace on 14 April 1875, the fourth child and third son of Prince Francis, Duke of Teck, and Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck. Although his mother was a granddaughter of King George III and first cousin to Queen Victoria , Athlone, as the son of a prince of Teck in Württemberg , was styled from birth as His Serene Highness and held the ...
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Francis, later Duke of Teck (1837–1900), married to Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge; Countess Amalie of Hohenstein (1838–1893), married to Count Paul von Hügel; Her father was an officer in the army of the Austrian Empire and her mother belonged to the Hungarian nobility. For this reason the marriage was established in Vienna.
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Mary Adelaide married Francis, Duke of Teck, with whom she had four children. The Duke and Duchess of Teck's daughter, Victoria Mary, commonly known as "May", was the wife of George V and became known as Queen Mary. Through her daughter, Mary Adelaide was the grandmother of the British kings Edward VIII and George VI.
Styling him as "Prince Francis, Duke of Teck" is wrong because 1. he never used that style himself, nor was he properly known as such in England or Germany, and 2. it is improper, exactly as if the Marquess of Cambridge were to be promoted to Duke of Cambridge and proceeded to style himself "Marquess Francis, Duke of Cambridge".
