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Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester

1944 - Today

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Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Richard Alexander Walter George; born 26 August 1944) is a member of the British royal family. He is the second son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, the youngest of the nine grandchildren of George V, nephew of Edward VIII and George VI, and first cousin of Elizabeth II. He is 31st in the line of succession to the British throne, and the highest person on the list who is not a descendant of George VI. At the time of his birth, he was 5th in line to the throne. Richard practised as an architect until the death of his elder brother, William, placed him in direct line to inherit his father's dukedom of Gloucester, to which he succeeded in 1974. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester has received more than 6,655,959 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester is the 7,299th most popular politician (down from 7,054th in 2019), the 1,436th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,477th in 2019) and the 237th most popular British Politician.

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  • 6.7M

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  • 56.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester ranks 7,299 out of 19,576. Before him are Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Song Jiaoren, Marcus Licinius Crassus, Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz, Olusegun Obasanjo, and Suha Arafat. After him are Ilterish Qaghan, Nayef Hawatmeh, Henry III, Duke of Brabant, Philip I, Count of Boulogne, Prince Axel of Denmark, and Rutilius Claudius Namatianus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester ranks 178. Before him are Alan Stivell, Pattie Boyd, Adriano Galliani, John Newcombe, António Mascarenhas Monteiro, and Christine Chubbuck. After him are Alvin Lee, Rosalía Mera, Jacques Doillon, Michael Rosbash, Ton Koopman, and Craig T. Nelson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester ranks 1,436 out of 8,785. Before him are Rhys Ifans (1967), Evelyn De Morgan (1855), Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), Claire Forlani (1971), Andy Summers (1942), and Robert Wyatt (1945). After him are Alvin Lee (1944), Elvis Costello (1954), John Nash (1752), Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565), Jason Isaacs (1963), and David Hemmings (1941).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester ranks 237. Before him are John Bowring (1792), Herbert Pitman (1877), Constantine II of Scotland (801), Prince William, Duke of Cumberland (1721), Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799), and Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (1673). After him are Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565), Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (1473), Arthur Phillip (1738), Henry Pelham (1694), Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (1373), and John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1504).

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