Princess Louise Caroline Alberta Windsor Duchess Argyll 1848-1939

On 18th March 1848 Princess Louise Caroline Alberta Windsor Duchess Argyll was born to Prince Albert Saxe Coburg Gotha [aged 28] and Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom [aged 28]. Coefficient of inbreeding 7.26%.

On 28th September 1858 James Brudenell 7th Earl Cardigan [aged 60] and Adeline Horsey Countess Cardigan [aged 33] were married; she had been his mistress since 1857. She by marriage Countess Cardigan. The marriage something of a scandal since James Brudenell 7th Earl Cardigan had left his first wife; [her mother] Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom [aged 39] refused to have Adeline at court. See My Recollections by Adeline Horsey. The difference in their ages was 27 years. He the son of Robert Brudenell 6th Earl Cardigan and Penelope Cooke Countess Cardigan.

On 24th May 1866 [her brother] Prince Alfred Windsor [aged 21] was created 1st Duke Edinburgh.

On 21st May 1871 John Campbell 9th Duke Argyll [aged 25] and Princess Louise Caroline Alberta Windsor Duchess Argyll [aged 23] were married. She the daughter of Prince Albert Saxe Coburg Gotha and Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom [aged 51]. He the son of George Douglas Campbell 8th Duke Argyll [aged 48] and Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower Duchess Argyll.

On 1st December 1871 George Philip Cecil Arthur Stanhope 7th Earl Chesterfield [aged 40] died of typhoid unmarried. His third cousin George [aged 49] succeeded 8th Earl Chesterfield, 8th Baron Stanhope of Shelford in Nottinghamshire. He had been staying at Londesborough Lodge Scarborough with the [her brother] Prince of Wales [aged 30] who also contracted typhoid but survived.

On 24th May 1874 [her brother] Prince Arthur Windsor 1st Duke Connaught and Strathearn [aged 24] was created 1st Duke Connaught and Strathearn. [her future sister-in-law] Luise Margarete Hohenzollern Duchess Connaught [aged 13] by marriage Duchess Connaught and Strathearn.

On 13th March 1879 [her brother] Prince Arthur Windsor 1st Duke Connaught and Strathearn [aged 28] and [her sister-in-law] Luise Margarete Hohenzollern Duchess Connaught [aged 18] were married at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle [Map]. He the son of [her father] Prince Albert Saxe Coburg Gotha and [her mother] Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom [aged 59]. They were third cousin once removed.

Life's Ebb And Flow Chapter IV. [30th April 1881]. And so the tale unfolds. Our [Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke [aged 28] and Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 19]] marriage took place in the Henry VII Chapel in Westminster Abbey, and the newspapers of the day made much of the "most brilliant wedding of a dozen seasons." I remember my surprise as I drove from our house in Carlton Gardens to the Abbey to find the way lined with interested crowds.

Among the guests were the [her brother] Prince [aged 39] and [her sister-in-law] Princess of Wales [aged 36], Prince and Princess Christian, the Duke [aged 30] and Duchess of Connaught [aged 20], Princess Louise [aged 33] (Marchioness of Lorne), Princess Mary Adelaide [aged 47] (Duchess of Teck) and the Duke of Teck (parents of Queen Mary), with Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany [aged 28], as my husband's best man. The crush filled the Abbey from the choir to the door.

My twelve bridesmaids were all girl friends and relatives. They were: Blanche Maynard [aged 17], my sister (now Lady Algernon Gordon-Lennox [aged 33]), Lady Eva Greville [aged 21], my husband's only sister, my stepsisters, Millicent [aged 13], Sybil [aged 9], and Angela St. Clair Erskine [aged 4] (later Duchess of Sutherland, Countess of Westmorland, and Lady A. Forbes), Countess Feodore Gleichen [aged 19] (later a renowned sculptor), Lady Florence Bridgman [aged 22] (the present Countess of Harewood and mother of Viscount Lascelles [aged 34]), Miss Wombwell [aged 19] (Countess of Dartrey), Miss Mills, the first Lord Hillingdon's daughter, Miss Violet Lindsay [aged 25] (now Violet, Duchess of Rutland), and Miss Ethel Milner [aged 30] (later Countess of Durham).

On 24th May 1881 [her brother] Leopold Saxe Coburg Gotha 1st Duke Albany [aged 28] was created 1st Duke Albany.

On 27th April 1882 [her brother] Leopold Saxe Coburg Gotha 1st Duke Albany [aged 29] and [her sister-in-law] Helena Waldeck Duchess Albany were married at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle [Map]. She by marriage Duchess Albany. He the son of [her father] Prince Albert Saxe Coburg Gotha and [her mother] Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom [aged 62].

On 28th March 1884 [her brother] Leopold Saxe Coburg Gotha 1st Duke Albany [aged 30] died at the Villa Nevada, Cannes.

Around 1885. Photograph of Joseph Boehm [aged 50] and Princess Louise Caroline Alberta Windsor Duchess Argyll [aged 36].

On 9th March 1888 William I King Prussia [aged 90] died. His son [her brother-in-law] Frederick [aged 56] succeeded III Emperor aka Kaiser, III King Prussia. [her sister] Victoria Empress Germany Queen Consort Prussia [aged 47] by marriage Empress aka Kaiser, Queen Prussia.

On 12th December 1890 Joseph Boehm [aged 56] died suddenly at his home 76 Fulham Road. Princess Louise Caroline Alberta Windsor Duchess Argyll [aged 42], his pupil, was either present, leading to speculation in the press about their relationship, or found his body shortly after his death. His son Edgar [aged 21] succeeded 2nd Baronet Boehm of Wetherby Gardens in Kensington.

On 2nd January 1899 Algernon George Percy 6th Duke Northumberland [aged 88] died. He was buried at Northumberland Vault, Crypt, Westminster Abbey. His son Henry [aged 52] succeeded 7th Duke Northumberland, 4th Earl Beverley, 10th Baronet Smithson of Stanwick in Yorkshire. [her sister-in-law] Edith Campbell Duchess Northumberland [aged 49] by marriage Duchess Northumberland.

On 24th April 1900 [her father-in-law] George Douglas Campbell 8th Duke Argyll [aged 76] died. His son [her husband] John [aged 54] succeeded 9th Duke Argyll, 6th Baron Hamilton of Hameldon in Leicestershire. Princess Louise Caroline Alberta Windsor Duchess Argyll [aged 52] by marriage Duchess Argyll.

On 30th July 1900 [her brother] Prince Alfred Windsor [aged 55] died. Duke Edinburgh extinct.

Around 4th February 1901 Wilfred William Ashley 1st Baron Mount Temple [aged 33] and Amalia Mary Maud Cassel [aged 21] were married. The [her brother] Prince of Wales [aged 59] attended some eighteen days before he acceeded the throne.

On 5th August 1901 [her sister] Victoria Empress Germany Queen Consort Prussia [aged 60] died.

On 6th May 1910 [her brother] King Edward VII of the United Kingdom [aged 68] died. His son [her nephew] George [aged 44] succeeded V King of the United Kingdom. Victoria Mary Teck Queen Consort England [aged 42] by marriage Queen Consort England.

On 6th July 1913 [her sister-in-law] Edith Campbell Duchess Northumberland [aged 63] died. She was buried at Church of St Mary the Virgin, Lesbury [Map].

Edith Campbell Duchess Northumberland: On 7th November 1849 she was born to George Douglas Campbell 8th Duke Argyll and Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower Duchess Argyll. On 23rd December 1868 Henry George Percy 7th Duke Northumberland and she were married. She the daughter of George Douglas Campbell 8th Duke Argyll and Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower Duchess Argyll. He the son of Algernon George Percy 6th Duke Northumberland and Louisa Drummond Duchess Northumberland. They were fifth cousins. On 2nd January 1899 Algernon George Percy 6th Duke Northumberland died. He was buried at Northumberland Vault, Crypt, Westminster Abbey. His son Henry succeeded 7th Duke Northumberland, 4th Earl Beverley, 10th Baronet Smithson of Stanwick in Yorkshire. She by marriage Duchess Northumberland.

On 2nd May 1914 [her husband] John Campbell 9th Duke Argyll [aged 68] died at Cowes, Isle of Wight. His nephew Niall [aged 42] succeeded 10th Duke Argyll, 7th Baron Hamilton of Hameldon in Leicestershire.

On 9th August 1914 Alastair Windsor 2nd Duke Connaught and Strathearn was born to [her nephew] Prince Arthur of Connaught [aged 31] and Princess Alexandra Duff Duchess Fife [aged 23] at 54 Mount Street Grosvenor Square. He was baptised on 1st September 1914 at his parent's home. His godparents were his maternal great-uncle King George V of the United Kingdom [aged 49], Alfonso XIII King Spain [aged 28], his maternal great-grandmother Alexandra of Denmark Queen Consort England [aged 69], his grandfather Prince Arthur Windsor 1st Duke Connaught and Strathearn [aged 64], his great-aunt Princess Louise Caroline Alberta Windsor Duchess Argyll [aged 66] and his cousin Princess Mary Windsor Countess Harewood [aged 17]. He a great grandson of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. Coefficient of inbreeding 3.89%.

1915. Philip de László [aged 45]. Portrait of Princess Louise Caroline Alberta Windsor Duchess Argyll [aged 66] widowed.

On 3rd December 1939 Princess Louise Caroline Alberta Windsor Duchess Argyll [aged 91] died.