Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort
Noble person
1897 – 1987
Who was Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort?
Victoria Constance Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort was the daughter of the 1st Marquess of Cambridge and Lady Margaret Evelyn Grosvenor.
Princess Mary was born at White Lodge, Richmond Park. She was baptised with the name of Mary von Teck and in 1917 her name was legally changed to Mary Cambridge when her father renounced all his German titles.
She was a bridesmaid, as Lady Mary Cambridge, at the wedding of Prince Albert, Duke of York, and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon on 3 May 1923.
She married the Marquess of Worcester, later the 10th Duke of Beaufort, on 14 June 1923 in London, and became Marchioness of Worcester and later The Duchess of Beaufort when Lord Worcester's father died in 1924.
They had no issue.
Mary was invested as a Commander of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. She died in 1987, aged 90 at Badminton House, Gloucestershire and is buried at St Michael and All Angels Church, Badminton.
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- Born
- Jun 12, 1897
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Henry Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort
(1923/06/14 - )
- Henry Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Died
- Jun 23, 1987
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on July 23, 2013
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