Duke Connaught and Strathearn is in Dukedoms of England Alphabetically, Dukedoms of England Chronologically, Extinct Dukedoms of England.
Summary
24th May 1874. Prince Arthur Windsor 1st Duke Connaught and Strathearn [aged 24] created.
16th January 1942. Grandson Alastair Windsor 2nd Duke Connaught and Strathearn [aged 27] succeeded.
26th April 1943. Alastair Windsor 2nd Duke Connaught and Strathearn extinct.
On 24th May 1874 Prince Arthur Windsor 1st Duke Connaught and Strathearn [aged 24] was created 1st Duke Connaught and Strathearn. Luise Margarete Hohenzollern Duchess Connaught [aged 13] by marriage Duchess Connaught and Strathearn.
On 16th January 1942 Prince Arthur Windsor 1st Duke Connaught and Strathearn [aged 91] died at Yattendon Castle [Map]. His grandson Alastair [aged 27] succeeded 2nd Duke Connaught and Strathearn.
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 Sir Alan Lascelles [aged 56], 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.