page_title: Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
section_title: Marriage and family
hierarchical_section_title: Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester / Marriage and family
caption_attribution_description: English: George Handley (Mayor) and Duke of Gloucester on his visit to Wangaratta 22 Oct 1934
context_page_description: Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, KG, KT, KP, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC 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 pilot Beryl Markham, with whom he became romantically involved. The court put pressure on him to end the relationship, but he 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.
context_section_description: When he returned from his trip to Japan in 1929, the affair with Markham ended. Her husband wanted a divorce and threatened to disclose Prince Henry's private letters to his wife if he did not "take care of Beryl". The Duke and Beryl never met again, although she did write to him when he visited Kenya in 1950 with his wife, but he did not write back. Prince Henry's solicitors paid out an annuity until her death in 1985. 
  After his tour of Australia and New Zealand, and pressured by his parents, Prince Henry decided it was time to settle down and proposed to Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott, sister of one of Henry's best friends Lord William Montagu Douglas Scott. The proposal, wrote Lady Alice many years later, was not at all romantic as "it was not his way", instead he just "mumbled it as we were on a walk one day".
  They were married on 6 November 1935. The marriage was originally planned to take place at Westminster Abbey, but was moved to the more modest Private Chapel at Buckingham Palace due to the death of Lady Alice's father, on 19 October 1935, barely a fortnight before the wedding. After suffering two miscarriages, the Duchess of Gloucester gave birth to two sons:
  Prince William of Gloucester (18 December 1941 – 28 August 1972). He was born in Monken Hadley Common, He died unmarried and without issue, killed in an airplane crash.
  Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (born 26 August 1944), He was born at St Matthew's Hospital in Northampton, He married a Danish commoner, Birgitte van Deurs, on 8 July 1972. The couple later had three children.
  The couple lived first at the Royal Pavilion in Aldershot, near the barracks of the Duke's regiment. "It was a very simple cabin" recalled the Duchess of Gloucester, and "the only royal thing about it was my husband's presence".
  After his father's death, the Duke bought Barnwell Manor with the larger part of his inheritance. It was a large country house in Northamptonshire which had belonged to his wife's ancestors. As their London seat, they were given York House in St. James's Palace.
caption: George Handley (Mayor) and Duke of Gloucester on his visit to Wangaratta 22 Oct 1934
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