Marriage
On Saturday 27 July 1889, Princess Louise married the 6th Earl Fife (11 October 1849 – 12 January 1912), at the Private Chapel in Buckingham Palace. He was eighteen years her senior, but her third cousin in descent from George III. Two days after the wedding, Queen Victoria created him Duke of Fife and Marquess of Macduff in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Letters Patent creating this dukedom contained the standard remainder to "male heirs of the body lawfully begotten." However, it eventually became apparent that the Duke and Duchess would not have a son. Therefore, on 24 April 1900, Queen Victoria signed Letters Patent creating a second Dukedom of Fife, along with the Earldom of Macduff in the Peerage of the United Kingdom with a special remainder: in default of a male heir, these peerages would pass to the daughters of the 1st Duke and then to their male descendants.
The Duke and Duchess of Fife had three children:
- Alastair Duff, Marquess of Macduff (stillborn 16 June 1890).
- HH Princess Alexandra of Fife (17 May 1891 – 26 February 1959) married her first cousin once removed, Prince Arthur of Connaught (13 January 1883 – 12 September 1938), and had issue.
- HH Princess Maud of Fife (3 April 1893 – 14 December 1945) married the 11th Earl of Southesk, and had issue.
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