Prince Francis of Teck

Prince Francis
Father Prince Francis, Duke of Teck
Mother Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge
Born 9 January 1870(1870-01-09)
Died 22 October 1910(1910-10-22) (aged 40)
Teck-Cambridge Family
Francis, Duke of Teck
Adolphus, Marquess of Cambridge
Alexander, Earl of Athlone

Prince Francis of Teck, GCVO, DSO (9 January 1870 – 22 October 1910), was a member of the British Royal Family, the brother of Queen Mary.

Francis Joseph Leopold Frederick, known as "Frank" was born at Kensington Palace and educated at Wellington College, Cheltenham College (Stone, 1912, p. xviii)[1] and RMA Sandhurst. His father was Prince Francis, Duke of Teck, the son of Duke Alexander of Württemberg and the Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde (created the Countess von Hohenstein). His mother was the Duchess of Teck (née Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge), the youngest daughter of HRH Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge and a granddaughter of King George III. Frank was styled His Serene Highness Prince Francis of Teck at birth. He joined the Royal Dragoons in 1890. On his early death, shortly before his sister's coronation as Queen Consort to George V, his will set a legal precedent when it was sealed, presumably to avoid scandal. The document remains a secret and subsequent royal wills have followed in this legal secrecy. He is buried in the Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore.

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Potential Marriage

According to Julia P. Gelardi's Born to Rule, Frank was vigorously pursued by Maud of Wales, his sister's sister-in-law. The two exchanged letters, but it soon became clear that Frank was not interested in Maud, so she set her sights on someone else: her first cousin Prince Carl of Denmark. Frank never married. He died in 1910 at the age of forty.

The English actress Sarah Miles claims to be the great-granddaughter of Prince Francis of Teck, through her grandfather, an illegitimate son of the prince called Francis Remnant, born at Richmond, Surrey, in 1894.[2]

Military career

Ancestors

Trivia

There is pub in Earls Court, London called the Prince of Teck

References

  1. ^ Stone, E.D. (1912), Herbert Kynaston: a short memoir with selections from his occasional writings. London, Macmillan and Co., Ltd. Retrieved September 6, 2011 from http://www.archive.org/stream/herbertkynastons00kynauoft/herbertkynastons00kynauoft_djvu.txt
  2. ^ Sarah Miles, A right royal bastard (1993), p. 20: "Clarice... the eldest child of Francis (Frank) Remnant, bastard son of Prince Francis of Teck".

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