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In 1935, Alice re­turned to the United King­dom when she learned that her fa­ther's health had been deteriorating. In Au­gust 1935, Lady Alice be­came en­gaged to Prince Henry, Duke of Glouces­ter. Henry pro­posed to Alice with a square sap­phire ring. They were mar­ried in a pri­vate cer­e­mony, in the Pri­vate Chapel, Buck­ing­ham Palace, on 6 No...

In 1975, Princess Alice was the first woman to be ap­pointed a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. In 1981, she first pub­lished her mem­oirs under the title The Mem­oirs of Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester. In 1991, she re­leased a re­vised edi­tion as Mem­o­ries of Ninety Years. In 1994, after the Glouces­ters had to give up Barn­well...

Princess Alice died on 29 Oc­to­ber 2004 in her sleep at Kens­ing­ton Palace at age 102. Fol­low­ing her death, the Union Jack flew at half mast at Buck­ing­ham Palace. Her fu­neral was held on 5 No­vem­ber 2004, at St George's Chapel, Wind­sor, and she was in­terred next to her hus­band, Prince Henry, and her elder son, Prince William, in the Roya...

Hugo Vick­ers called Princess Alice "a very pri­vate per­son who was not widely known to the gen­eral pub­lic" de­spite being the third high­est rank­ing lady in the royal fam­ily at the time of her mar­riage. It was well known she dis­liked large par­ties. Peter Townsend said of her: "She pos­sessed clas­sic, serene good looks and sin­cer­ity shon...

Titles and styles

1. 25 December 1901 – 5 November 1935: LadyAlice Montagu Douglas Scott 2. 6 November 1935 – 10 June 1974: Her Royal HighnessThe Duchess of Gloucester 3. 10 June 1974 – 29 October 2004: Her Royal HighnessPrincess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester On 10 June 1974, Prince Henry died, and was suc­ceeded as Duke of Glouces­ter by their sec­ond son, Prince Richard (the cou­ple's elder son, Prince William, had been killed in an aero­plane crash in 1972). As a widow she re­quested per­mis­sion from her ni...

Honours

British honours 1. GCStJ: Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St. John, 1936 2. CI: Companion of the Crown of India, 9 June 1937 3. GBE: Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, 11 May 1937 4. GCVO: Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, 1 January 1948 5. GCB: Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, 2 April 1975 6. Royal Family Order of King George V, 1935 7. Royal Family Order of King George VI, 1937 8. Royal Family Order of Queen Elizabeth II, 1952 For­eign honours 1. Gr...

Bibliography

1. Vickers, Hugo (2006), Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, Arrow Books/Random House, ISBN 978-0-09-947662-7 2. Duchess of Gloucester, Princess Alice (1983), The Memoirs of Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Collins, ISBN 0-00-216646-1 3. Aronson, Theo (2014), The Royal Family at War, Thistle Publishing, ISBN 978-1910198032 4. Ronald Allison and Sarah Riddell, eds., The Royal Encyclopedia (London: Macmillan, 1991), ISBN 0-333-53810-2. 5. Marlene A. Eilers, Queen Victoria's Descendants (New York...