HRH The Duke of Gloucester

Prince Richard

Duke of Gloucester (more)

The Duke of Gloucester, in the robes of the Order of St John, in October 2015

Born

26 August 1944 (age 72)
Northampton

Spouse

Issue

Full name
Richard Alexander Walter George

Father

Mother

Full name
Richard Alexander Walter George

Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, KG, GCVO, SSI, GCStJ (Richard Alexander Walter George; born 26 August 1944) is the youngest grandchild of King George V and Queen Mary. He trained and practised as an architect until the death of his elder brother placed him in direct line to inherit his father's dukedom of Gloucester, which he inherited, as the second duke, in 1974. He is currently 24th in the line of succession to the British throne, and the first not descended from King George VI. He is also the senior male line descendant of three British monarchs: Victoria, Edward VII and George V.

Prince Richard was born on 26 August 1944. His father was Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the third son of King George V and Queen Mary. His mother was Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (née Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott), a daughter of the 7th Duke of Buccleuch. He was baptised at the Royal Chapel of All Saints in Windsor Great Park on 20 October 1944 by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Gordon Lang. When Richard was four months old, he accompanied his parents to Australia, where his father served as Governor-General from 1945 to 1947. The family returned to Barnwell Manor in 1947, where Richard was largely raised.