Agnes Duff, Countess Fife
Deceased Person
1829 – 1869
Who was Agnes Duff, Countess Fife?
Lady Agnes Georgiana Elizabeth Hay was an Irish-Scottish aristocrat.
Agnes was born at Dublin, Ireland. She was the third child of William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll and Elizabeth FitzClarence, one of the illegitimate children of William IV and his mistress Dorothea Jordan.
Agnes died at the age of 40. Her only son, Alexander, married Princess Louise of Wales, the eldest daughter of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and Alexandra of Denmark in 1889 and was created Duke of Fife by Queen Victoria. Through her fourth daughter, also named Agnes, she is an ancestor of British prime minister David Cameron.
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- May 12, 1829
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- Died
- Dec 18, 1869
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on July 23, 2013
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