Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk
Lady Maud Alexandra Victoria Georgina Bertha Duff, Countess of Southesk ( born April 3, 1893 East Sheen Lodge, Richmond, London, † December 14, 1945 in London ) was a member of the British royal family.
Life
Lady Maud was the younger daughter of Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife ( 1849-1912 ) and his wife Louise of Great Britain and Ireland ( 1867-1931 ), daughter of British King Edward VII. At birth she was at the fifth place of the British throne.
Along with her older sister, Alexandra (1891-1959), 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 Maud and her sister from their 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.
On November 12, 1923 Maud married in the chapel of the Wellington Barracks in London Lord Charles Alexander Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk the later ( 1893-1992 ), son of the 10th Earl of Southesk and Lady Ethel Mary Elizabeth Bannerman. The marriage was a son, James George Alexander (* 1929), produced.
After their marriage, Maud no longer used the title Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, instead she took the title of her husband. Although they belonged to the other royal family, they took no official obligations true. However, your cousin, King George VI. , She appointed from 1942 to 1944 as a State Councillor. After Lady Maud had died in December 1945 in a London hospital, her son inherited in 1959 by his aunt Alexandra the title of the Duke of Fife. Their own son had already predeceased.