page_title: Prince Arthur of Connaught
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Prince Arthur of Connaught / Early life
caption_attribution_description: The Duke and Duchess of Connaught with their children. Portrait by Hughes &amp; Mullins, 1893. Prince Arthur of Connaught (1883-1938) Princess Louise, Duchess of Connaught (1860-1917) Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850-1942) Margaret, Crown Princess of Sweden (1882-1920) Princess Patricia of Connaught (later Lady Patricia Ramsay) (1886-1974),
context_page_description: Prince Arthur of Connaught KG KT GCMG GCVO GCStJ CB PC was a British military officer and a grandson of Queen Victoria. He served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 20 November 1920 to 21 January 1924.
context_section_description: Prince Arthur was born on 13 January 1883 at Windsor Castle. His father was Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. His mother was the former Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia.
  Arthur was baptised in the Private Chapel of Windsor Castle on 16 February 1883, and his godparents were Queen Victoria (his paternal grandmother), Princess Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (his great-great aunt, for whom his paternal aunt Princess Beatrice stood proxy), Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (his maternal uncle, who was represented by the German Ambassador Count Münster), Princess Henry of the Netherlands (his maternal aunt, who was represented by Countess Münster), Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (the Queen's cousin), and the Duke of Edinburgh (his paternal uncle, whose brother the Prince of Wales represented him).
  Arthur was the first British royal prince to be educated at Eton College. He was known to his family as "young Arthur" to distinguish him from his father.
caption: The Duke and Duchess of Connaught with their children in 1893.
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