Lord Frederick Cambridge

Lord Frederick Cambridge ("Frederick Charles Edward") (born Prince Frederick of Teck) (23 September 1907-30 May1940) was a descendant of the British Royal Family. He was the younger son of the Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, formerly the Duke of Teck, and a nephew of Queen Mary, the consort of King George V.

Birth

Frederick was born on 23 September 1907 in Vienna, Austria, where his father was the British military attaché. At the time of his birth, his father was styled Prince Adolphus, Duke of Teck, the eldest son of Francis, Duke of Teck and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (a granddaughter of King George III). His mother was The Duchess of Teck (nèe Lady Margaret Evelyn Grosvenor), daughter of 3rd Marquess of Westminster (later 1st Duke of Westminster).

He was styled "His Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Teck" from his birth.

World War I

During World War I, anti-German feeling in the United Kingdom led Frederick's uncle, King George V to change the name of the royal house from the Germanic House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to the more English sounding, House of Windsor. The King also renounced all his Germanic titles for himself and all members of the British Royal Family who were British subjects.

In response to this, the Duke of Teck renounced, through a Royal Warrant from the King, dated 14 July 1917, his title of Duke of Teck in the Kingdom of Württemberg and the style "His Highness". Adolphus, along with his brother, Prince Alexander of Teck, adopted the name Cambridge, after their grandfather, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge.LondonGazette|issue=30374|startpage=11592|endpage=11594|date=9 November 1917|accessdate=2007-11-15]

Adolphus was subsequently created Marquess of Cambridge, Earl of Eltham, and Viscount Northallerton in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Frederick's elder brother George, took the title Earl of Eltham as a courtesy title. Frederick became known as Lord Frederick Cambridge.

Military career

Frederick served in the Coldstream Guards and was killed in action in Belgium on 30 May1940.

Titles from birth to death

* "His Serene Highness" Prince Frederick of Teck (1907-1917)
* Mr. Frederick Cambridge (1917-1917)
* Lord Frederick Cambridge (1917-1940)

Ancestry

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1= 1. Lord Frederick Cambridge
2= 2. Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge
3= 3. Margaret Grosvenor
4= 4. Francis, Duke of Teck
5= 5. Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge
6= 6. Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster
7= 7. Constance Gertrude Leveson-Gower
8= 8. Duke Alexander of Württemberg
9= 9. Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde
10= 10. Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge
11= 11. Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)
12= 12. Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster
13= 13. Elizabeth Mary Leveson-Gower
14= 14. George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland
15= 15. Harriet Howard
16= 16. Duke Louis of Württemberg
17= 17. Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg
18= 18. László, Count Rhédey of Kis-Rhéde
19= 19. Agnes Inczédy of Nagy-Várad
20= 20. George III of the United Kingdom
21= 21. Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
22= 22. Prince Frederick of Hesse
23= 23. Princess Caroline Polyxene of Nassau-Usingen
24= 24. Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
25= 25. Eleanor Egerton
26= 26. George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland
27= 27. Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, 19th Countess of Sutherland
28= 28. George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (= 26)
29= 29. Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, 19th Countess of Sutherland (= 27)
30= 30. George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle
31= 31. Georgiana Cavendish

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