About Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (born Lady Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott; 25 December 1901 – 29 October 2004), was a member of the British royal family. She was the wife of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the third son of King George V and Queen Mary. She was the mother of Prince William of Gloucester and Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester. The daughter of the 7th Duke of Buccleuch, Scotland's largest landowner, she became by marriage a princess of the United Kingdom, and a sister-in-law of Edward VIII and George VI. She was thus an aunt-by-marriage of Elizabeth II. Alice was extremely well-travelled, both before and after her marriage. At the time of her death at age 102, she was the longest-lived member of the British royal family. == Early life == Lady Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott was born on 25 December 1901 at Montagu House, Whitehall, London, the third daughter and fifth child of John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith (later Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry), and his wife, the former Lady Margaret Alice "Molly" Bridgeman, daughter of the 4th Earl of Bradford. Her brothers Walter and William, and her nephew John, all served as Conservative MPs. Through her first cousin Marian Louisa, Lady Elmhirst, she was also connected to Sarah Ferguson, former wife of Alice's great-nephew Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. Alice was a descendant, in an unbroken male line, of Charles II through his eldest but illegitimate son, James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, a significant political figure in the years preceding the Glorious Revolution. Her birth on Christmas Day, accounted for her middle name, Christabel.
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