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H.R.H.
Richard
Duke of Gloucester

1944-

    
 

    Vita
    Titles and Awards
    Honorary Military Appointments

    Military Service
    Other Military Connections

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Index of Reigns & Peerages
full name:   Richard Alexander Walter George
birth: 1944.08.26 at Northampton
father:   Prince Henry William Frederick (Duke of Gloucester)
mother:   Princess Alice (Duchess of Gloucester)
marriage: 1972.07.08

Birgitte Eva (H.R.H. The Duchess of Gloucester)
at St Andrew's Church, Barnewell, Northants

children: 1974

Alexander Patrick Gregers Richard Windsor, Earl of Ulster

  1977 Lady Davina Elizabeth Alice Benedikte Windsor
  1980 Lady Rose Victoria Birgitte Louise Windsor
     
  Titles, Orders and Awards
     
  Titles:
  1944.08.26 Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, with the style of His Royal Highness (H.R.H.Prince Richard of Gloucester)
  1974.06 Duke of Gloucester, Earl of Ulster, and Baron Culloden (H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester)
     
  British Empire/Commonwealth Orders and Awards:
  1974.01.01 GCVO
  1975.06.12 GCStJ (Grand Prior of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem)
  1996.04.23 KG
     
  Foreign Orders and Awards:
  1973.07.02 Grand Cross, Order of St Olav (Norway)
  1975.07.08 Grand Cross, Order of the North Star (Sweden)
     
     
   Honorary Military Appointments
1975.03.21 Colonel-in-Chief, The Gloucestershire Regiment [to 1994]
1977.06.11 Colonel-in-Chief, Royal Pioneer Corps [to 1993]
1977.06.11 Royal Honorary Colonel, Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia)
1993.04.05 Deputy Colonel-in-Chief, The Royal Logistic Corps [on formation]
1993.04.06 Honorary Air Commodore, RAF Odiham
1994.04.27 Deputy Colonel-in-Chief, The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment [on formation; to 2007]
  1996.09.01 Honorary Air Marshal, Royal Air Force
2001.06.16 Honorary Air Commodore, No. 501 (County of Gloucester) Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force
2003.07.01 Colonel-in-Chief, Royal Army Medical Corps
2006.02.28 Colonel-in-Chief, The Royal Anglian Regiment
2007.02 Royal Colonel, 6th Battalion, The Rifles [on formation]
   Military Service
[none]  
   Other Military Connections
 
19uu Patron, the Normandy Veterans Association
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