Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester

Who was Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester?

Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester GCB CI GCVO GBE GCStJ was the wife and then widow of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the third son of George V and Mary of Teck.

The daughter of the 7th Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry, Scotland’s largest landowner, her brothers Walter and William and her nephew John were all Conservative MPs. By marriage, she was sister-in-law to Edward VIII and George VI and aunt to Elizabeth II. She was the mother of Prince William of Gloucester, who died young, and Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Her first cousin, Marian Louisa Montagu Douglas Scott, was the grandmother of Sarah, Duchess of York, wife of Alice’s great-nephew, Prince Andrew, Duke of York.

Princess Alice's niece, Princess Alexandra, who was likewise born on Christmas Day, shares the name Christabel in honour of their shared birth date.