page_title: Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
section_title: Education and career
hierarchical_section_title: Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester / Education and career
caption_attribution_description: English: portrait of HRH The Duke of Gloucester
context_page_description: Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, KG, GCVO, GCStJ is the youngest grandchild of King George V and Queen Mary. He 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 a paternal cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, at birth he was 5th in the line of succession to the British throne, currently he is 27th in the line of succession as well as the first in line not descended from King George VI. He is also the senior-most male-line descendant of Queen Victoria and her husband Albert, Prince Consort.
context_section_description: Prince Richard's early education took place at home, under the instruction of Rosamund Ramirez, who had also tutored young King Faisal II of Iraq; later, he attended Wellesley House School at Broadstairs and Eton College. In 1963, he matriculated at Magdalene College, Cambridge where he read Architecture, graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in June 1966; he proceeded as MA (Cantab) in 1971.
  Later in 1966, straight after university, Prince Richard joined the Offices Development Group in the Ministry of Public Building and Works for a year of practical work. He returned to Cambridge in 1967, completing both parts of the Diploma in Architecture degree in June 1969. Upon passing his exams, he became a practising partner in Hunt Thompson Associates in London, an architectural firm.
caption: The Duke in 1989, by Allan Warren
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