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Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester

1901 - 2004

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Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (born Lady Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott; 25 December 1901 – 29 October 2004) was a member of the British royal family. She 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester has received more than 3,356,009 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester is the 69th most popular companion (up from 77th in 2019), the 225th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 271st in 2019) and the 10th most popular British Companion.

Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester is most famous for being the daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. She was also the first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. Princess Alice was born on May 25, 1883 and died on February 12, 1969.

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  • 3.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester ranks 69 out of 784. Before her are Malhun Hatun, Brigitte Macron, Mary Tudor, Queen of France, Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Umm Kulthum bint Muhammad, and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After her are Poppaea Sabina, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, Maria Feodorovna, Sawda bint Zamʿa, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, and Hecuba.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester ranks 23. Before her are Princess Märtha of Sweden, Magda Goebbels, Paul of Greece, Ernest Lawrence, Gary Cooper, and Vittorio De Sica. After her are André Malraux, Mohamed Naguib, Jean Dubuffet, Joaquín Rodrigo, Simon Kuznets, and Max Euwe. Among people deceased in 2004, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester ranks 10. Before her are Ahmed Yassin, Jacques Derrida, Ray Charles, Juliana of the Netherlands, Francis Crick, and Françoise Sagan. After her are Czesław Miłosz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Peter Ustinov, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Susan Sontag, and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester ranks 225 out of 8,785. Before her are Mary Tudor, Queen of France (1496), Ozzy Osbourne (1948), Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (1982), Thomas Newcomen (1663), Robert Brown (1773), and Laurence Olivier (1907). After her are Alcuin (735), James Hunt (1947), Charles Glover Barkla (1877), Stan Laurel (1890), Clement Attlee (1883), and Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869).

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Among COMPANIONS In United Kingdom

Among companions born in United Kingdom, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester ranks 10. Before her are Mary Boleyn (1499), Catherine Parr (1512), Catherine Howard (1523), Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (1846), Elizabeth of York (1466), and Mary Tudor, Queen of France (1496). After her are Mary of Teck (1867), Elizabeth Woodville (1437), Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887), Margaret Tudor (1489), Mordred (null), and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (1863).

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