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"Duke of Gloucester" Prince Henry Hand Signed 3X5 Card:
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Up for sale the "Duke of Gloucester" Prince Henry Hand Signed 3X5 Card. 

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Prince Henry, Duke of Frederick Albert; 31 March 1900 – 10 June 1974) was the third son and

fourth child of King George V and Queen Mary. He served as Governor-General of

Australia from 1945 to 1947, the only member of the British royal family to

hold the post. Henry was the first son of a British monarch to be educated at

school, where he excelled at sports, and went on to attend Eton College, after which he was commissioned in the 10th Royal Hussars, a

regiment he hoped to command. But his military career was interrupted by royal

duties, and he was nicknamed "the unknown soldier". While big-game

shooting in Kenya, he met the future aviator Beryl Markham, with whom he became romantically involved. The

court put pressure on him to end the relationship, but had to pay regular

hush-money to avert a public scandal. In 1935, also under parental pressure, he

married Lady Alice Montagu Douglas

Scott, with whom he had two sons, Princes William and Richard. From

1939 to 1940, Henry served in France as a liaison officer to Lord Gort. He

performed military and diplomatic duties during the rest of the war, then in

1945 was appointed as Australia's governor-general at the request of Prime

Minister John Curtin. The post had

originally been offered to his younger brother, the Duke of Kent,

who died in an air crash. Henry attended the coronation of his niece Queen Elizabeth II in

1953 and carried out several overseas tours, often accompanied by his wife.

From 1965, he became incapacitated by a number of strokes. Upon his death, he

was succeeded as the Duke of Gloucester by

his only living son, Richard. At the time of his death, Prince Henry was the

last surviving child of King George V and Queen Mary. His widow, who died at the age of 102, became the

longest-lived member of the British royal family in history. Prince Henry was

born on 31 March 1900, at York Cottage, on the Sandringham Estate during the reign of his

great-grandmother Queen Victoria.[1] His father was the Duke of York (later King George V), the eldest surviving son of the Prince and

Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra).[1] His mother was the Duchess of York (later Queen Mary), the only daughter of the Duke and Duchess of

Teck.[1] At the time of his birth, he was fifth in

the line of succession to the

throne, behind his grandfather, father and two elder brothers. He

was baptised at the private chapel of Windsor Castle on 17 May 1900, by Randall Thomas Davidson, Bishop of Winchester, and

his godparents were: Queen Victoria (his great-grandmother); the German Emperor (his

first cousin once removed, for whom Prince

Albert of Prussia stood proxy); Princess

Henry of Battenberg (his paternal great-aunt); the Duchess of Cumberland (his

paternal great-aunt, whose sister, his grandmother the Princess of Wales

represented her); Prince George of Greece (his

first cousin once removed, for whom Prince Henry's paternal grandfather the

Prince of Wales stood proxy); Princess Carl of Denmark (his paternal aunt, for whom of Wales stood proxy); Prince

Alexander of Teck (his maternal uncle, for whom Prince Henry's

great-uncle the Duke of Cambridge stood

proxy); and Field Marshal The Earl Roberts (for

whom General Sir Dighton Probyn stood

proxy). He was informally known to his family as Harry.

As

a young boy, Prince Henry suffered from ill health very much like his older

brother Albert. He also had knocked knees, and had to wear painful leg

splints. He was an extremely nervous child, and was often victim to spontaneous

fits of crying or giggling, and also like his brother, Henry had a combination

of speech disorders. They both had rhotacism,

which prevented them from pronouncing the sound r, but while Albert's

pronunciation was slightly reminiscent of the "French r", Henry was

completely unable to pronounce it, causing the intended r to sound like [w]. On

top of this, Henry also had a nasal lisp and an unusually high-pitched tone,

resulting in a very distinctive voice.

By

1909, Henry's poor health had become a serious concern for his parents. He was

very small for his age and was prone to get very aggressive colds. "You

must remember that he is rather fragile and must be treated differently to his

two elder brothers who are more robust", wrote Prince George to Henry's

tutor, Henry Peter Hansell.

On

6 May 1910, Prince George ascended the throne as George V, and Henry became the

third in line to the throne. The King was persuaded by Hansell that it would be

good for Henry's character to attend school, where he could interact with boys

his age. The King, having previously rejected this proposition for his two

elder sons, agreed on the basis that it would help him "behave like a boy

and not like a little child". Prince Henry thus became the first son

of a British monarch to attend school. After three days at St Peter's Court in Broadstairs as a day boy, Hansell, noticing he liked it,

asked the King to send him as a boarder, to which he agreed.

Henry

spent three years at St Peter's Court. Academically, he was not very bright,

although he did show a particular aptitude in mathematics, Henry's sole

interest became sports, particularly cricket and football. "All you write

about is your everlasting football of which I am heartily sick", wrote his

mother, answering a fully detailed letter from Henry about a match.

In

September 1913, Henry started at Eton College. During the First World War, Crown Prince Leopold of Belgium, later King Leopold III, was a member

of his house (Mr Lubbock's[1]). His studies did not improve, but his nerves and

disposition did. He made friends through his enthusiasm for sports, and his

masters were very pleased with him, noting in his report that he was

"thoroughly willing, cheerful, modest & obedient". To his father,

these values were the most important, having no time or interest in what he

called time he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1919

with his brother Albert, Henry had outgrown all his brothers, both in height

and size, and enjoyed very good health. Their stay at Cambridge lasted just one

year and was very uneventful for both of them, as they were not allowed to live

in college with the other undergraduates, due to their father's fear of their

mixing with undesirable company.  

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