Louise Princess Royal
1867 – 1931 · Generation XXXV · House of Windsor
Louise Princess Royal (1867–1931). The eldest daughter of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, she was a delicate, withdrawn child who became an accomplished musician. Weary of her mother’s protectiveness, she followed her aunt the Duchess of Argyll in marrying outside royalty, choosing Alexander Duff, 6th Earl of Fife, a companion of her father eighteen years her senior; they wed in 1889 and two days later he was created Duke of Fife. The marriage proved happy. They lived mostly at Mar Lodge in Scotland, rebuilt from her own rough sketch after a fire, and had two surviving daughters, for whom a second dukedom with a special remainder was created in 1900. Her father made her Princess Royal in 1905. In December 1911 the family was shipwrecked off Morocco aboard the SS Delhi, and her husband died of pleurisy in Egypt weeks later. She spent her widowhood quietly between Mar Lodge and Portman Square.
Place in the family
- Louise Princess Royal was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
- Louise Princess Royal was the third of 5 children of King Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark recorded in this archive.
One of 53 people of House of Windsor (from 1917) in this archive. The present house — it renamed itself Windsor in 1917, setting aside the German title Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Line of descent: Owen Tudor → Edmund Tudor → King Henry VII → Margaret Tudor → King James V of Scotland → Mary Queen of Scots → King James I → Elizabeth Stuart → Sophia of Hanover → King George I → King George II → Frederick Prince of Wales → King George III → Edward Duke of Kent → Queen Victoria → King Edward VII → Louise Princess Royal.
Parents
- King Edward VII (1841 – 1910)
- Alexandra of Denmark (1844 – 1925)
Siblings
- Albert Victor Duke of Clarence (1864 – 1892)
- King George V (1865 – 1936)
- Victoria of the United Kingdom (1868 – 1935)
- Maud of Wales (1869 – 1938)