Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester

Henry William Frederick Albert was born 31 March 1900, the first son of a British monarch educated at school rather than by tutors; he excelled at sports, moved through Eton, and took a commission in the 10th Royal Hussars hoping one day to command it. Royal duties kept pulling him from the barracks - he earned the nickname "the unknown soldier" for his low profile - and while big-game shooting in Kenya he became romantically involved with the future pilot Beryl Markham, a liaison the court pressured him to end but which required ongoing hush-money to keep quiet. In 1935 he married Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott under parental pressure and had two sons, William and Richard. He served in France 1939-40 as a liaison officer, carried out wartime diplomatic duties, then in 1945 became the 11th governor-general of Australia - the only prince to hold the post, appointed after it had been meant for his younger brother the Duke of Kent, killed in an air crash. He attended his niece Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953 and toured overseas with his wife until a series of strokes from 1965 left him incapacitated. He died 10 June 1974, the last surviving son of George V; his