| Alice, Duchess of Gloucester | |
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| Birth: | 25 December 1901 London, England, UK |
| Death: | 29 October 2004 London, England, UK |
| Age: | 102 years, 309 days |
| Country: |  UK
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| Centenarian | |
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, (born Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott), (25 December 1901 – 29 October 2004) was a member of the Royal Family and a centenarian from the United Kingdom.
Biography[]
Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott was born in London on 25 December 1901. She was the fifth child of a family of three boys and five girls. Throughout their youth, Alice and her sisters compiled a variety of albums of their sketches and photographs. She went to Algiers in 1924, and later to Cape Town, where her sister, Mida, was married to Geoffrey Hawkins, ADC to the Governor-General, the Earl of Athlone. A year before her marriage she made an attempt to climb Mount Kenya, at that time unassailed by a woman.
Her marriage in 1935 to Henry, Duke of Gloucester, was by no means unpredictable. He was a brother officer of her brother the Earl of Dalkeith, and they moved in the same circles. Their parents were friends. The couple had two sons. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s the Gloucesters continued their royal duties in an avuncular role to the new Queen. The Duke of Gloucester died in June 1974 and his funeral procession to St George's Chapel, Windsor, commanded full military honours and rolling drums.
On 25 December 2001 she celebrated her 100th birthday and became a centenarian. In the quiet days of her 100th year she could be observed walking in the garden outside her home, accompanied by a member of her family or her carer. She was far removed from the formality of public life. Duchess of Gloucester became the oldest ever member of the British Royal Family in August 2003, outliving the Queen Mother's 101 years and 238 days. Princess Alice died in London on 29 October 2004, aged 102 years, 309 days.
References[]
- Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester Independent, 1 November 2004