Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott Duchess Gloucester 1901-2004

On 30th January 1893 [her father] John Scott 7th Duke Buccleuch 9th Duke Queensberry [aged 28] and [her mother] Margaret Alice "Molly" Bridgeman Duchess Buccleuch Duchess Queensbury [aged 21] were married. She the daughter of [her grandfather] George Cecil Orlando Bridgeman 4th Earl Bradford [aged 48] and [her grandmother] Ida Frances Annabella Lumley Countess Bradford [aged 44]. He the son of William Scott 6th Duke Buccleuch 8th Duke Queensberry [aged 61] and Louisa Jane Hamilton Duchess Buccleuch and Queensbury [aged 56]. They were third cousin once removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 25th December 1901 Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott Duchess Gloucester was born to John Scott 7th Duke Buccleuch 9th Duke Queensberry [aged 37] and Margaret Alice "Molly" Bridgeman Duchess Buccleuch Duchess Queensbury [aged 29].

On 5th November 1914 [her grandfather] William Scott 6th Duke Buccleuch 8th Duke Queensberry [aged 83] died. His succeeded son [her father] John Scott 7th Duke Buccleuch 9th Duke Queensberry [aged 50] succeeded 7th Duke Buccleuch, 9th Duke Queensberry, 7th Earl Doncaster, 7th Baron Scott of Tynedale. [her mother] Margaret Alice "Molly" Bridgeman Duchess Buccleuch Duchess Queensbury [aged 42] by marriage Duchess Buccleuch Duchess Queensberry.

On 21st April 1921 [her brother] Walter Scott 8th Duke Buccleuch 10th Duke Queensberry [aged 26] and [her sister-in-law] Vreda Lascelles Duchess Buccleuch and Queensbury [aged 20] were married. He the son of [her father] John Scott 7th Duke Buccleuch 9th Duke Queensberry [aged 57] and [her mother] Margaret Alice "Molly" Bridgeman Duchess Buccleuch Duchess Queensbury [aged 49]. They were fourth cousin once removed.

On 31st March 1928 [her future husband] Henry Windsor 1st Duke Gloucester [aged 28] was created 1st Duke Gloucester.

1935. Yevonde Cumbers aka Madame Yevonde [aged 41]. Photograph of Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott Duchess Gloucester [aged 33]. © National Portrait Gallery.

On 19th October 1935 [her father] John Scott 7th Duke Buccleuch 9th Duke Queensberry [aged 71] died at Bowhill House, Bowhill. His succeeded son [her brother] Walter Scott 8th Duke Buccleuch 10th Duke Queensberry [aged 40] succeeded 8th Duke Buccleuch, 10th Duke Queensberry, 8th Earl Doncaster, 8th Baron Scott of Tynedale. [her sister-in-law] Vreda Lascelles Duchess Buccleuch and Queensbury [aged 35] by marriage Duchess Buccleuch Duchess Queensberry.

On 6th November 1935 Henry Windsor 1st Duke Gloucester [aged 35] and Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott Duchess Gloucester [aged 33] were married at Buckingham Palace [Map]. She by marriage Duchess Gloucester. She the daughter of John Scott 7th Duke Buccleuch 9th Duke Queensberry [deceased] and Margaret Alice "Molly" Bridgeman Duchess Buccleuch Duchess Queensbury [aged 63]. He the son of King George V of the United Kingdom [aged 70] and Victoria Mary Teck Queen Consort England [aged 68].

On 20th January 1936 [her father-in-law] King George V of the United Kingdom [aged 70] died. His succeeded son [her brother-in-law] Edward [aged 41] succeeded VIII King of the United Kingdom. Duke York merged with the crown.

On 3rd June 1937 [her brother-in-law] King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom [aged 42] and Wallis Warfield aka Simpson Duchess of Windsor [aged 40] were married at the Château de Candé. No member of his family attended. He the son of [her father-in-law] King George V of the United Kingdom and [her mother-in-law] Victoria Mary Teck Queen Consort England [aged 70].

The Times. 5th January 1938. MR. J. NEVILL [aged 23] AND MISS HARRISON [aged 22].

The [her husband] Duke [aged 37] and Duchess of Gloucester [aged 36] have sent a silver condiments set to Mr. John Nevill, Life Guards, elder son of Guy Larnach Neville 4th Marquess Abergavenny [aged 54] and Mrs. Guy Larnach-Nevill [aged 47], of Uckfield House, and Miss Patricia Harrison, daughter of Major and the Hon. Mrs. J. F. Harrison, of Kings Walden Bury, Hitchin, whose marriage took place yesterday at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge. The Rev. G. S. Shackleford officiated, assisted by the Rev. E. C. Dunford. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a gown of ivory-tinted panne velvet, embossed with sprays of silver flowers. The bodice was fashioned with a square neckline and long sleeves, slightly full at the shoulder, and the square train was lined with silver tissue. A headdress of silver-tipped doves' wings surmounted her long tulle veil, and she carried a spray of mixed white flowers. A retinue of six little girls and four pages folowed the bride. They were Penelope Harrison (sister of the bride), the Hon. Clare Beckett, Marye Pepys (niece of the bridegroom), Margaret Rosselli, Caroline Bury, Joanna Spencer, Hugh Lawson (cousin of the bride), David Myddelton (cousin of the bridegroom), Thomas Pilkington (nephew of the bride), and Charles Smith-Bingham. The pages wore replicas of the uniform of the Life Guards of the early nineteenth century, and the little girls wore long frocks of silver lame, the high-waisted bodices cut with short, puff sleeves, and square necks. They wore caps of silver lame, trimmed with white fur, and carried white fur muffs. Roderic Pratt [aged 22], Life Guards, was best man, and there was a guard of honour from the same regiment. The Hon. Mrs. J. F. Harrison afterwards held a reception at 28, Grosvenor Square, W1. The honeymoon wil be spent in Switzerland.

Before 25th April 1939 Thomas William Anson [aged 26] and Anne Ferelith Bowes-Lyon [aged 21] were married at St Margaret's Church, Westminster [Map]. The wedding was attended by the [her brother-in-law] King [aged 43] and Queen [aged 38], Princesses Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom [aged 13] and Princess Margaret [aged 8] - see Pathe. He the son of Thomas Edward Anson 4th Earl Lichfield [aged 55] and Evelyn Maud Keppel Countess Lichfield [aged 52].

In 1941 Hugh Molyneux 7th Earl of Sefton [aged 42] and Josephine Gwynne Armstrong Countess Sefton [aged 38]. Whilst he was a good friend of the [her brother-in-law] Duke of Windsor [aged 46], his wife was a good friend of the Duke's wife Wallis Warfield aka Simpson Duchess of Windsor [aged 44]. Josephine Gwynne Armstrong Countess Sefton by marriage Countess Sefton.

On 26th April 1943 Alastair Windsor 2nd Duke Connaught and Strathearn [aged 28] died at Ottawa. He was buried at St Ninian's Chapel, Mar Lodge Estate. Duke Connaught and Strathearn extinct. The diaries of Alan Frederick "Tommy" Lascelles [aged 56], [her brother-in-law] King George VI's [aged 47] private secretary, published in 2006, recorded that both the regiment and Athlone had rejected him as incompetent, and he fell out of a window when drunk and perished of hypothermia overnight.

On 26th August 1944 [her son] Richard Alexander Walter Windsor 2nd Duke Gloucester was born to [her husband] Henry Windsor 1st Duke Gloucester [aged 44] and Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott Duchess Gloucester [aged 42]. He a grandson of King George V of the United Kingdom.

On 21st October 1947 David Allan Bethell 5th Baron Westbury [aged 25] and Ursula James [aged 23] were married at St Martin in the Fields Church [Map]. Princesses Elizabeth [aged 21] and Margaret [aged 17] attended the wedding, as did the [her husband] Duke [aged 47] and Duchess [aged 45] of Gloucester.

On 29th September 1949 George Henry Hubert Lascelles 7th Earl Harewood [aged 26] and Marion Stein Countess Harewood [aged 22] were married at St Mark's Church North Audley Street. [her brother-in-law] King George VI of the United Kingdom [aged 53], his uncle, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon Queen Consort England [aged 49], [her mother-in-law] Victoria Mary Teck Queen Consort England [aged 82] [her sister-in-law] Princess Mary Windsor Countess Harewood [aged 52], his mother, and other members of the Royal family attended the wedding. He the son of Henry Lascelles 6th Earl Harewood and Princess Mary Windsor Countess Harewood.

Marion Stein Countess Harewood: On 18th October 1926 she was born at Vienna [Map]. On 6th March 2014 she died.

On 7th August 1954 [her mother] Margaret Alice "Molly" Bridgeman Duchess Buccleuch Duchess Queensbury [aged 82] died.

On 28th March 1965 [her sister-in-law] Princess Mary Windsor Countess Harewood [aged 67] died.

On 28th May 1972 [her brother-in-law] King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom [aged 77] died. He was buried at Royal Burial Ground Frogmore Estate Home Park Windsor, Berkshire.

On 4th October 1973 [her brother] Walter Scott 8th Duke Buccleuch 10th Duke Queensberry [aged 78] died. His succeeded son [her nephew] Walter Francis Montagu-Douglas-Scott 9th Duke Buccleuch 11th Duke Queensberry [aged 50] succeeded 9th Duke Buccleuch, 11th Duke Queensberry, 9th Earl Doncaster, 9th Baron Scott of Tynedale. Jane McNeill Duchess of Buccleuch [aged 43] by marriage Duchess Buccleuch.

On 10th June 1974 [her husband] Henry Windsor 1st Duke Gloucester [aged 74] died. His succeeded son Richard Alexander Walter Windsor 2nd Duke Gloucester [aged 29] succeeded 2nd Duke Gloucester. Memorials at St Andrews Church, Barnwell [Map] to Henry Windsor 1st Duke Gloucester who lived nearby and worshipped at the church.

Richard Alexander Walter Windsor 2nd Duke Gloucester: On 26th August 1944 he was born to Henry Windsor 1st Duke Gloucester and Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott Duchess Gloucester. He a grandson of King George V of the United Kingdom.

On 29th October 2004 Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott Duchess Gloucester died.