Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester

Prince Richard
Duke of Gloucester (more)
Prince Richard aged 79
Richard in 2023
BornPrince Richard of Gloucester
(1944-08-26) 26 August 1944 (age 80)
St Matthew's Nursing Home, Northampton, England[1]
Spouse
(m. 1972)
Issue
Names
Richard Alexander Walter George[2]
HouseWindsor
FatherPrince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
MotherLady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott
Alma materMagdalene College, Cambridge

Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Richard Alexander Walter George; born 26 August 1944) is a member of the British royal family. He is the second son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, the youngest of the nine grandchildren of George V, nephew of Edward VIII and George VI, and first cousin of Elizabeth II. He is 31st in the line of succession to the British throne, and the highest person on the list who is not a descendant of George VI. At the time of his birth, he was 5th in line to the throne.

Richard practised as an architect until the death of his elder brother, William, placed him in direct line to inherit his father's dukedom of Gloucester, to which he succeeded in 1974. He married Birgitte van Deurs Henriksen on 8 July 1972. They have three children.

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  2. ^ As a titled royal, Richard needs no surname, but, when one is used, it is Windsor.