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![]() Prince Richard spent the first two years of his life in Australia before the family moved back to their home at Barnwell Manor in Northamptonshire, with its 2,500 acres of farmland. Both Prince Henry and Princess Alice set a high standard of commitment to the Royal Family.ĭuring the war, Henry served in the British Army and then became governor-general of Australia from 1945 until 1947, while Alice was head of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF). Richard's mother, Princess Alice, was the daughter of the Duke of Buccleuch, Scotland's largest landowner.ĭuty ran in the family. Now 78, Prince Richard was born on August 26, 1944, less than a year before the end of the Second World War.Ī first cousin of the late Queen, hi s father, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, was a younger brother of King Edward VIII and King George VI. ![]() ![]() Then, two years later, he inherited the family dukedom on the death of his father in 1974.Īs a full-time working royal, he has represented both the Queen and now King Charles at hundreds of engagements both at home and overseas and is associated with 150 charities and organisations. ![]()
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