Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife
Alexandra Victoria Alberta Edwina Louise Duff, 2nd Duchess of Fife ( born May 17, 1891 in East Sheen Lodge, Richmond, London, † February 26, 1959 in Primrose Hill, London ) was a member of the British royal family.
Life
Lady Alexandra Victoria was the eldest daughter of Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife ( 1849-1912 ) and his wife Louise ( 1867-1931 ), daughter of British King Edward VII. At birth she was in the fourth position of the British throne. Together with her younger sister, Maud (1893-1945), she grew up in London and at Windsor Castle. Her upbringing and school education was in the hands of several tutors and governesses.
1905 were Alexandra Victoria and her sister by her grandfather and King Edward VII explains deviation from the general rules according to which this privilege is only payable to children of sons of the monarch, to princesses of Great Britain and Ireland. They got awarded the title of nobility Highness ( Highness ) and in the log Aryan hierarchy they followed immediately after the narrow royal family before all other nobles.
1910, Princess Alexandra Victoria an affair with her cousin ( second degree ) of the Danish Prince Christoph, called Christ ( 1888-1940 ), the youngest child of King George I of Greece and Grand Duchess Olga Romanova Konstantinovna. As erführen their parents about it, they disapproved a connection with a member of the German -born house of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- Glücksburg.
On a trip to Egypt, the family suffered in December 1911 off the coast of Morocco shipwreck. Although no one was directly injured, her father was diagnosed, may therefore, in Egypt pleurisy. He died in January 1912 in Aswan. One of the two dukedoms of the father went with his death on the daughter Alexandra, because this title deviation could also be transferred into the daughters of Dukes and their male descendants to the rule. Alexandra was entitled so in its own right, even if they could not occupy the seat in the House of Lords as a woman.
On October 15, 1913 married Lady Alexandra Victoria Duff, 2nd Duchess of Fife, at St. James 's Palace in London with her cousin ( second degree ) Major General Arthur Frederick Patrick Albert of Connaught ( 1883-1938 ), the only son of Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, and Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia. Her father was the third son of Queen Victoria. The marriage went forth a son, Alastair Arthur Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught ( 1914-1943 ).
Together with her husband she took a variety of official duties on behalf of her uncle, King George V, and later true for her cousin, King George VI. ,. During World War II she worked as a nurse at St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London. 1920 her husband was appointed Governor-General of South Africa, and together they went to Pretoria, where she worked with in the local hospitals. After returning to the United Kingdom, the couple went back to his official duties. Alexandra was also a State Councillor from 1937 to 1944. Alexandra Duff, 2nd Duchess of Fife, died on 26 February 1959 in the vicinity of Primrose Hill in London and has been in the family chapel of the Mar Lodge Chapel, Braemar, buried. Your title passed to her nephew James Carnegie, 12th Earl of Southesk, because his own son had died.
Name in different stages of life
Awards
- Royal Red Cross, 1st Class
- Dame Grand Cross of the Most Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem
- King George V Royal Family Order, 4th Class
Military honors
- Honorary Colonel of the Royal Army Pay Corps ( RAPC )