Princess Maud
In 1900, Queen Victoria granted Maud's father a second dukedom of Fife in the peerage of the United Kingdom with a special remainder providing for the succession of the duke's daughters and their male descendants to the title, in default of a male heir. Maud became second in line to the dukedom after her sister, Lady Alexandra Duff.
On 5 November 1905, King Edward VII gave Maud's mother the title of Princess Royal. He further ordered Garter King of Arms to gazette Maud and her sister Alexandra with the style and attribute of Highness and precedence immediately after all members of the British Royal Family bearing the style of Royal Highness. From that point, Her Highness Princess Maud of Fife derived her title and rank not from her father (a duke), but rather from the will of the sovereign (her grandfather).
| British Royalty |
| House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha |
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| Edward VII |
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On 13 November 1923, Maud married Lord Carnegie (23 September 1893 – 16 February 1992) at the Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks, London. Lord Carnegie was the eldest son of Charles Noel Carnegie, 10th Earl of Southesk and inherited the title of Earl of Southesk on his father's death on 10 November 1941.
Following her marriage, Maud ceased to use the title of Princess and the style Highness and was known as Lady Carnegie, and later The Countess of Southesk. In some official documents, she was still styled Princess Maud.
Maud and her husband operated a model farm at Elsick, in Kincardineshire, Scotland.
Maud and her husband had one child:
- James George Alexander Bannerman Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife, 12th Earl of Southesk (b. 23 September 1929).
Read more about this topic: Princess Maud, Countess Of Southesk
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