Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester; the Oldest-Ever Member of the Royal Family Who Described Herself As 'Pre-Beatnik'

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Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, oldest member of the royal family in history and the Queen's only surviving aunt, had her fortune told as a young woman that she would marry above her station.

"Since I was a duke's daughter, this seemed rather unlikely to me," she related in her 1981 autobiography, The Memoirs of Princess Alice. The sand-diviner at the oasis in Algeria in 1924 added that she would have much to do with the army. In the event she married Prince Henry, younger brother of King George VI, and a career army officer.

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Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester; the Oldest-Ever Member of the Royal Family Who Described Herself As 'Pre-Beatnik'

She appeared in her last official photograph just before her 100th birthday with the royal family including the Queen and Princess Margaret, bridesmaids at her wedding in 1935. As the last member of the royals alive during the First World War, she retained links with the Somme Association,...

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