Dorothy Clement
Dorothy Clement( c. 1715 – c. 1739) was the mistress of Edward Walpole and mother of his four children, including Maria Walpole, who became Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh upon her marriage to Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh.
Daughter of a Darlington postmaster, she is an ancestor of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, through her granddaughter Lady Anna Seymour.
Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
Prince William, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh,( William Henry; 25 November 1743 – 25 August 1805), was a grandson of King George II and a younger brother of King George III of the United Kingdom.
Prince William, Duke of Gloucester
Prince William, Duke of Gloucester (24 July 1689 – 30 July 1700), was the son of Princess Anne (later Queen of England, Ireland and Scotland from 1702) and her husband, Prince George of Denmark.
He was their only child to survive infancy.
Styled Duke of Gloucester, he was viewed by contemporaries as a Protestant champion because his birth seemed to cement the Protestant succession established in the "Glorious Revolution" that had deposed his Catholic grandfather James II the previous year.
Anne was estranged from her brother-in-law and cousin, William III, and her sister, Mary II, but supported links between them and her son.
He grew close to his uncle William, who created him a Knight of the Garter, and his aunt Mary, who frequently sent him presents.
At his nursery in Campden House, Kensington, he befriended his Welsh body-servant, Jenkin Lewis, whose memoir of the Duke is an important source for historians, and operated his own miniature army, called the "Horse Guards", which eventually comprised 90 boys.
Gloucester's precarious health was a constant source of worry to his mother.
His death in 1700 at the age of 11 precipitated a succession crisis as his mother was the only individual remaining in the Protestant line of succession established by the Bill of Rights 1689.
The English Parliament did not want the throne to revert to a Catholic, and so passed the Act of Settlement 1701, which settled the throne of England on Electress Sophia of Hanover, a cousin of King James II, and her Protestant heirs.
William Montagu Douglas Scott, 6th Duke of Buccleuch
William Henry Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 6th Duke of Buccleuch and 8th Duke of Queensberry( 9 September 1831 – 5 November 1914) was a Scottish Member of Parliament and peer.
He was the paternal grandfather of Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, and the maternal great- grandfather of Prince William of Gloucester and Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester.
He was a paternal great- great- grandfather to Sarah, Duchess of York.
Almeria Carpenter
Lady Almeria Carpenter( 1752 – 1809) was a British courtier and mistress of Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh.
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester,( born Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott; 25 December 1901 – 29 October 2004) was the wife of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the third son of King George V and Queen Mary.
She was the mother of Prince William of Gloucester and Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester.
The daughter of the 7th Duke of Buccleuch, Scotland's largest landowner, she became by marriage a princess of the United Kingdom, and a sister- in- law to Edward VIII and George VI.
She was thus an aunt by marriage to Elizabeth II.
Princess Alice was extremely well travelled, both before and after her marriage.
Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
Prince William, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh,( William Frederick; 15 January 1776 – 30 November 1834) was a great- grandson of King George II and nephew and son-in- law of King George III of the United Kingdom.
Anne, Queen of Great Britain
Anne (6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714) was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland between 8 March 1702 and 1 May 1707.
On 1 May 1707, under the Acts of Union, the kingdoms of England and Scotland united as a single sovereign state known as Great Britain.
She continued to reign as Queen of Great Britain and Ireland until her death in 1714.
Anne was born in the reign of Charles II to his younger brother and heir presumptive, James, whose suspected Roman Catholicism was unpopular in England.
On Charles's instructions Anne and her elder sister, Mary, were raised as Anglicans.
Mary married their Dutch Protestant cousin, William III of Orange, in 1677, and Anne married Prince George of Denmark in 1683.
On Charles's death in 1685, James succeeded to the throne, but just three years later he was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
Mary and William became joint monarchs.
Although the sisters had been close, disagreements over Anne's finances, status and choice of acquaintances arose shortly after Mary's accession and they became estranged.
William and Mary had no children.
After Mary's death in 1694, William reigned alone until his own death in 1702, when Anne succeeded him.
During her reign, Anne favoured moderate Tory politicians, who were more likely to share her Anglican religious views than their opponents, the Whigs.
The Whigs grew more powerful during the course of the War of the Spanish Succession, until 1710 when Anne dismissed many of them from office.
Her close friendship with Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, turned sour as the result of political differences.
The Duchess took revenge with an unflattering description of the Queen in her memoirs, which was widely accepted by historians until Anne was re-assessed in the late 20th century.
Anne was plagued by ill health throughout her life, and from her thirties, she grew increasingly ill and obese.
Despite seventeen pregnancies by her husband, she died without surviving issue and was the last monarch of the House of Stuart.
Under the Act of Settlement 1701, which excluded all Catholics, she was succeeded by her second cousin George I of the House of Hanover.
Simon Bland
Lieutenant- Colonel Sir Simon Claud Michael Bland, KCVO( born 1923) is a retired British soldier and courtier.
The son of the diplomat Sir Nevile Bland, he served with the Scots Guards in the Second World War and during the Malaya Emergency and was the assistant military adviser to the High Commission in Karachi( 1959 – 60).
In 1961, he was appointed Assistant Private Secretary to Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester; he then served as Comptroller and Private Secretary in his household from 1963 until the Duke's death in 1974, and was also Private Secretary to his eldest son, Prince William of Gloucester, from 1968 until the Prince's death in 1972.
He subsequently served as Private Secretary, Comptroller and Equerry to Prince William's younger brother Richard( who became Duke of Gloucester in 1974) and to his mother Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, until retirement in 1989.
Bland was appointed a Member( Fourth Class) of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1967 Birthday Honours, and was promoted twice, firstly to Commander in the 1973 Birthday Honours and then to Knight Commander in the 1982 Birthday Honours.
Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch
Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch and 5th Duke of Queensberry KG FRSE( 2 September 174611 January 1812) was a Scottish nobleman and long- time friend of Sir Walter Scott.
He is the paternal 3rd great- grandfather of Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, and the maternal 4th great- grandfather of Prince William of Gloucester and Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester.
Much of the family's lands and wealth were accumulated during Henry's tenure as Duke.
He integrated the surnames" Montagu" and" Douglas" with the Scott family name to form the unhyphenated compound surname" Montagu Douglas Scott".

Question: What nationality is Prince William, Duke Of Gloucester's mother?