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The Wedding of Prince Arthur of Connaught, son of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, and Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife, daughter of Princess Louise of Wales and the Duke of Fife, in the Chapel Royal, St. James’s Palace in London on this day in 1913. The couple had one son, Prince Alastair (styled as the Earl of Macduff after 1917), and were the Governor General and Viceregal Consort of South Africa in the 1920s, remaining married until Prince Arthur’s death in 1938.
n the presence of many of their extended family, including King George V and Queen Mary, King Christian X and Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, King Haakon VII and Queen Maud of Norway, Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom (wearing Queen Victoria’s Small Diamond Crown and Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee Chain) and Dowager Empress Marie of Russia, Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife (wearing the Fife Tiara), Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Princess Louise Margaret (wearing the Connaught Fringe Tiara), Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf and Crown Princess Margareta of Sweden (sister of the groom, wearing her Khedive of Egypt Tiara and Connaught Necklace) and Prince Henry of Prussia.
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