Talk:Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll

message: Does anyone know if she inspired this song?
--Ryan W (talk) 08:42, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Queen of Argyll" Song Inspiration 

message: At the end of this very informative article is a list of Canadian Regiments that still bear the name of Princess Louise.
Unfortunately however there is no mention of the British Regiments that fought in both the first and second world wars, and indeed 41 (Princess Louise of Kensington) Signal Squadron which still operates today within 31 Signal Regiment, and which has a significant role in UK Operations.
Would someone please research this and amend the article?
Many thanks.
An update to her military appointments, it is mentioned that she gave her name to 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's) but is not listed;
...permission was sought to include her name in the Regiment’s title.  Princess Louise consented and in July 1884, the Regiment was redesignated the 8th Princess Louise’s New Brunswick Regiment of Cavalry. In 1889, the Regiment was officially classified as "Hussars" in the Militia List and in 1892 the Regiment was again redesignated the 8th Princess Louise’s New Brunswick Hussars, a title which remained until 1957.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.137.245.209 (talk) 14:43, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing History 

message: According to historian Elie Auclair, Alberta was named in honor of missionary Albert Lacombe. Why is Princess Louise usually credited with the origin of the name ?
:The Marquis of Lorne's correspondence and memoirs make it clear that he named Alberta after his wife: http://www.assembly.ab.ca/lao/library/louise/conclu.htm Indefatigable 15:11, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Princess Louise vs. Albert Lacombe

message: Surely saying that she was the most attractive of her sisters is a little POV? Just going on the photos that are currently on the pages, I would definitely have said Victoria. But perhaps a better picture could be found. On the other hand, if she was generally considered the most attractive of the sisters at the time and this is of any importance, someone should add a reference. 91.105.5.19 13:07, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: She was greatly admired by her contemporaries as the most beautiful and flirtatious of all of her sisters. There are many sources for this, but this is one that I have to hand: "...she was the queen's [Victoria's] most beautiful daughter..." (Mark Stocker, ‘Louise, Princess, duchess of Argyll (1848–1939)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006 accessed 25 Dec 2007). I've therefore changed "least unattractive" to "most attractive". I will also try and get a clearer photo uploaded. PeterSymonds | talk 07:58, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is silly.... 

message: I've removed from the opening paragraph the line about her 'evincing considerable boredom'. This is adequately and appropriately referenced in the section dealing with her time in Canada and does not belong to the general brief introduction to her - to have that statement there makes out it was her singular and most important attribute. Plutonium27 (talk) 15:22, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, good move. Not appropriate for such a short lead. PeterSymonds | talk 15:54, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time in Canada 

message: :No British princess had married a commoner since Mary Tudor married Charles Brandon, the first Duke of Suffolk, in 1515.
Charles was made a duke before that marriage.  Or does "commoner" here mean "non-royal"?  —Tamfang (talk) 02:23, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Commoner in this case means non royal (see mediatization). Commoner doesn't technically mean a peer, though I've used it to distinguish between noble and royal blood. PeterSymonds | talk 08:22, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The linked article commoner begins "In British law, a commoner is someone who is neither the Sovereign nor a peer." jnestorius(talk) 09:08, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: All biographies state that Louise was the first daughter of a Sovereign to marry a commoner. An example: "The queen claimed that the marriage was ‘the most popular act of my reign’ (Fulford, 305) and the press generally hailed it for striking a ‘democratic’ note, Louise being the first daughter of a sovereign since 1515 to marry a commoner." from the Oxford DNB article. The ODNB is an extremely authoritative source; I doubt they'd use the word "commoner" incorrectly. PeterSymonds | talk 10:11, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If the word "commoner" is being used here in a different sense from that of the Wikipedia article, then at a minimum this article should not wikilink to that article, which is as wrong as linking Mickey Mouse to Pluto instead of to Pluto, and a good deal less obvious. Even better would be to amend that article to take account of the variety of meanings of "commoner". jnestorius(talk) 10:27, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

text:  Bringing up mediatization in a non-German context invites confusion. —Tamfang (talk) 23:00, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  German Mediatization has its separate article, though. The noun has the same meaning, whatever nationality you are, so it would mean the same outside German context. PeterSymonds | talk 23:04, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

text: I understand your point. I've unlinked commoner for now. PeterSymonds | talk 16:12, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

text: It's not linked :) PeterSymonds | talk 16:14, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No? It was linked on DYK. Oh well. jnestorius(talk) 16:39, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the problem is the understanding of the actual word and how it's used. Technically, on thought, the ODNB is technically wrong in stating that she was the first daughter of the British Sovereign to marry a commoner, because Charles Brandon was Duke of Suffolk – of noble rank, and therefore not a commoner by definition. I've found another way to say it. No such marriage had been given official recognition since 1515, when Charles Brandon, the first Duke of Suffolk, married Mary Tudor. Would this be suitable as a replacement? PeterSymonds | talk 17:13, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

text: I replaced it anyway :) PeterSymonds | talk 20:52, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

text: Henry VIII created Brandon Duke of Suffolk in 1514. He married Mary in 1515. ScarletRibbons (talk) 06:43, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  commoner marriages 

message: I have seen this page be vandalized many times since it has been posted as a FA.
Maybe someone should protect it.  kkarma 05:12, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: To be honest I don't think it's necessary. The TFA always gets vandalised more than often than other articles, and looking at the history, the vandalism doesn't seem to be too bad at the moment. PeterSymonds | talk 07:00, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protect it? 

message: Many of the streets in Brandon, Manitoba are named after people who were involved in the building of the Canadian Pacific railroad. Two of the downtown streets are Princess Avenue and Louise Avenue. They are on either side of Lorne Avenue, so Lord Lorne is surrounded by his wife.
216.36.132.66 (talk) 13:22, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, there are a number of things named after Louise, especially in Canada. I like the confluence of streets, though, very interesting; but I can't find a reference to back up the name. Thanks! PeterSymonds | talk 16:46, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Street names 

message: Was this princess ever referred to as Louisa?  There is a lovely inlet on the BC coast called Princess Louisa Inlet that may have been named after this lady or her grandmother.  Many adjoining geographic features are named for children of Queen Victoria.  --KenWalker | Talk 01:45, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: She was christened Louisa Caroline Alberta but was always known as Louise. However, her grandmother was Princess Victoria Mary Louisa, so it is unclear who the inlet was actually named after.RockyMtnGuy (talk) 07:44, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Princess Louisa Inlet]] 

message: There are at least three problems with this statement:
#Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, was certainly not a British subject, as he died long before the Kingdom of Great Britain came to exist.
#Queen Mary I of Scotland, a daughter of a Sovereign, married two 'British' subjects, in 1565 and in 1567 respectively.
#According to Sophia Naturalization Act 1705, many (if not most) daughters of Sovereigns actually married British subjects. Surtsicna (talk) 12:17, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The first princess+commoner marriage? 

message: Lord Lorne was a noted homosexual - I find it odd that this article merely refers to "rumours".  Particularly since Princess Louise's search for sexual fulfilment outside her marriage is given so much space, it would be appropriate, and indeed necessary, that Lord Lorne's homosexuality be explicated rather more frankly and completely.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.7.94.152 (talk) 21:49, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unfortunate lack of candor with regard to Lord Lorne 

message: Hi. When you say that Princess Louise was a supporter of the feminist movement, this is kind of anachronistic, since feminism wasn't really even a term at that point, and the suffragist movements and the several feminist movements haven't all been identical or even had exactly the same aims. I am willing to track down exactly which version of suffragism she involved herself with if you like, or perhaps this is already something you are on top of? Your page is so good, I didn't want to go in and just change things, so I thought I'd bring it up here. Sharon Scogdill (talk) 15:09, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Why don't you make a more specific suggestion here of what change you think should be made, so that the article's editors can discuss it and possibly incorporate it into the article?  -- Ssilvers (talk) 13:53, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

text: Since she was known as Louise throughout her life, the christening name is probably not important enough to go in the WP:LEAD section (Lead sections should be succinct) and is properly treated below, in the "Early life" section.  That's only my opinion, though.  -- Ssilvers (talk) 13:53, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Princess Louise, use of word "feminist" and her name 

message: This article by Carolyn Harris might have information of use here: March 7, 2014 The Whig.com   --KenWalker | Talk 05:18, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  I saw a docu on TV last night, Victoria and her daughters, which offers more insight. It seems to have had consent from the Royal family as access to some very Royal looking real estate would indicate. 58.174.224.23 (talk) 01:18, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further source 

message: The lede says: 'She was also a supporter of the feminist movement, corresponded with Josephine Butler and visited Elizabeth Garrett. She held that "the subject of Domestic Economy lies at the root of the – highest life of every true woman."
:The quotation doesn't sound very feminist, rather the opposite. I don't see how it supports the preceding statement. It is also not represented in the main article, so shouldn't be in the lede at all. Valetude (talk) 16:18, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-sequitur? 

message: This also is silly. It is evident from cources cited in th emost recent bigoraphy of Princess Louise ("The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter by Lucinda Hawksley") that the marriage  was a effectively one  of convenience on both sides, although the public were encouraged to believe it was a love match.JF42 (talk) 11:44, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  In the docu 'Queen Victoria's daughters' it is said that Louise was very pretty and attracted to a sculptor. This led to the marriage being arranged to prevent ... whatever you may call it. It was also said that Louise had some windows of Kensington Palace bricked up because her husband would get out at night and seek gay adventures. The docu makers had access to the Queen's archives. 58.174.193.2 (talk) 00:19, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Louise fell in love with John, Marquess of Lorne, 

message: This article needs to be updated to mention the Hawksley biography, which is quite incendiary. The section above hints at the great variation between this biography (which mentions 2 or 3 previous biographies of the princess, while we refer in Wikipedia's voice to Wake as her biographer as if hers is the only one) and the statements made in the article. Hawksley is almost definite that Lorne was gay and on p. 301 outright calls Henry Locock the princess's son. On less scandalous matters, too, Wikipedia is saying things that Hawksley convincingly demonstrates were otherwise: she repeatedly returned to Europe to escape the Canadian winter rather than having become used to it, and in her last 20 years of life, when not ill, she continued to have a heavy schedule of public appearances; she was never a shut-in or a recluse. The article has become outdated and needs to at least acknowledge this new portrait. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:42, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lucinda Hawksley biography 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I was disappointed that only one of the citations (the bust of Louise's brother, Leopold) led me to a photo so that I could see more of her work, other than the famous & oft-photographed Queen Victoria sculpture at KP. Judging by that statue alone, Louise seemed to be an extremely talented artist, so I was hoping to see other works of art she had done. Alas. Would someone know where & could add directions to Louise's works? TYVM in advance if anyone can. ScarletRibbons (talk) 06:29, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sculptures 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: not moved. Based on comments here and at Talk:Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone#Requested move 23 January 2023 (Special:Permalink/1138075044#Requested move 23 January 2023permalink), there may need to be a broader discussion on the naming conventions. (non-admin closure) Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 15:07, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll →  – Most articles about deceased princess of the royal blood seem to be titled based on how they were known at birth, as is the case with Louise's sisters Victoria, Princess Royal, Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, and Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom. I see no reason why Louise should be an exception. She is already the primary topic for the proposed rename, so there is not risk of confusion. Estar8806 (talk) 20:59, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 24 January 2023