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Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (Henry William Frederick Albert; 31 March 1900 – 10 June 1974) was a member of the British royal family. He was the third son of King George V and Queen Mary, and was a younger brother of kings Edward VIII and George VI. He served as Governor-General of Australia from 1945 to 1947, the only Prince to hold the ...
Across Britain, gossip spread that Albert was physically and psychologically incapable of being king. No evidence has been found to support the contemporaneous rumour that the government considered bypassing him, his children and his brother Prince Henry, in favour of their younger brother Prince George, Duke of Kent. [55]
The coffin was followed by George VI's brother Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and son-in-law Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, on foot. The new queen, Elizabeth II, her sister Princess Margaret and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother followed by car. The Sandringham estate staff and their families followed in procession part of the way and the public ...
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, 1900-1974. King George V and Queen Mary’s third son, Henry was the first child of a British monarch to be educated at school, rather than be tutored at home ...
Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (25 November 1743 – 25 August 1805), was a grandson of George II and a younger brother of George III of the United Kingdom. Life [ edit ]
Richard shouldered the royal responsibility as heir to his father, Henry, Duke of Gloucester – one of George VI’s brothers. The newlywed Gloucesters embarked on a life of duty they had not ...
Arms of Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester: Arms of King Henry IV differenced by a bordure argent Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester (3 October 1390 – 23 February 1447) was an English prince, soldier and literary patron. [1]
The Year of the Three Kings Instrument of abdication signed by Edward VIII and his three brothers, Albert, Henry and George, 10 December 1936. On 12 December 1936, George VI was proclaimed king throughout the British Empire after the abdication of his brother Edward VIII following a constitutional crisis as result of the King's desire to marry twice-divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson.