Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester

... was the daughter of the 7th Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry, Scotland's largest landowner. She married Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester – the younger brother of Edward VIII and George VI – in 1935; he died in 1974, aged 74, but she survived him by 30 years and became Britain's oldest–ever Royal.

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