At the time of his birth, he was fifth in the line of succession to the throne, behind his grandfather, father and two elder brothers. His mother was the Duchess of York (later Queen Mary), the only daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Teck. His father was the Duke of York (later King George V), the eldest surviving son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra). Prince Henry was born on 31 March 1900, at York Cottage, on the Sandringham Estate during the reign of his great-grandmother Queen Victoria. The royal children in 1912: (Back row l-r) Albert, Henry and Edward.
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His widow, who died at the age of 102, became the longest-lived ever member of the British royal family. Prince Henry was the last surviving child of King George V and Queen Mary. Upon his death, he was succeeded as the Duke of Gloucester by his only living son, Richard. From 1965, he became incapacitated by a number of strokes. Henry attended the coronation of his niece Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 and carried out several overseas tours, often accompanied by his wife. The post had originally been offered to his younger brother, the Duke of Kent, who died in an air crash. He performed military and diplomatic duties during the rest of the war, then in 1945 was appointed as Australia's governor-general at the request of Prime Minister John Curtin. In 1935, also under parental pressure, he married Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott, with whom he had two sons, Princes William and Richard.įrom 1939 to 1940, Henry served in France as a liaison officer to Lord Gort. The court put pressure on him to end the relationship, but he had to pay regular hush-money to avert a public scandal. While big-game shooting in Kenya, he met the future pilot Beryl Markham, with whom he became romantically involved. However, his military career was frequently interrupted by royal duties, and he was nicknamed "the unknown soldier". Henry was the first son of a British monarch to be educated at school, where he excelled at sports, and went on to attend Eton College, after which he was commissioned in the 10th Royal Hussars, a regiment he hoped to command. He served as Governor-General of Australia from 1945 to 1947, the only member of the British royal family to hold the post.
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