Albert, Prince b. August 26, 1819 d. December 14, 1861 English Royalty. He was Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and consort of his cousin, Queen Victoria of Great Britain, whom he married in 1840. A lover of the arts and is famous for the "Great Exhibition of 1851" in London, England, which was the first international exhibition of culture and industry. A great influence on the affairs of the British State, when the United States and England were embroiled the diplomatic crisis...[Read More] Cause of death: Typhoid Royal Burial Grounds at Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, England
Alexander of Teck (Cambridge) (Alexander Augustus) b. April 14, 1874 d. January 16, 1957 British Nobility. The Prince of Teck and Earl of Athlone, he was born His Serene Highness Prince Alexander Augustus Frederick William George of Teck, the youngest child of Prince Francis, Duke of Teck and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge and brother of Queen Mary. Educated at Eton University and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 7th Hussars and received a Distinguished Service Order for his service in the Boer War. He was appointed...[Read More] (Bio by: VampireRed) Royal Burial Grounds at Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, England
Alice, Princess b. December 25, 1901 d. October 29, 2004 British Royalty. Born Lady Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott, third daughter of the seventh Duke of Buccleuch and Lady Margaret Alice Bridgeman, at Montagu House, the family's London mansion in Whitehall. As Edwardian aristocracy, she made her debut into society in 1919, at a dance given by the King and Queen. In 1924 she began travels which took her to Africa, India, and successfully smuggled herself into Afghanistan. After her return home, she married Henry William Frederick Albert...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola) Royal Burial Grounds at Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, England
Alice Countess of Athlone b. February 25, 1883 d. January 3, 1981 English Royalty. The daughter of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany and Princess Helena of Waldeck, she was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She married Prince Alexander of Teck, a brother of Queen Mary, on February 10, 1904 at St. George's Chapel. When the royal family dropped all Germanic titles in 1917, the couple became the Earl and Countess of Athlone. They had three children: May, Rupert, and Maurice. The Earl died in 1957. Alice continued to live at Kensington Palace, and attended the...[Read More] (Bio by: VampireRed) Royal Burial Grounds at Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, England
Arthur of Connaught b. January 13, 1883 d. September 12, 1938 British Royalty. Born Prince Arthur Frederick Patrick Albert at Windsor Castle, he was the eldest son of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Louise of Prussia, and a grandson of Queen Victoria. The first royal prince to be educated at Eton College, he went on to attend the Royal Military College Sandhurst and was commissioned into the 7th (Queen's Own) Hussars. After seeing active duty with the Hussars during the Boer War, he was promoted to the rank of captain in the 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots...[Read More] (Bio by: VampireRed) Cause of death: Cancer Royal Burial Grounds at Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, England
Battenberg, Maurice Victor Donald von [cenotaph] b. October 3, 1891 d. October 27, 1914 British Royalty. Born at Balmoral Castle, Crathie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the fourth and youngest child of Henry Maurice Prinz von Battenberg and Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore Saxe-Cobburg and Gotha, Princess of the United Kingdom. He was the youngest grandchild of Queen Victoria. He was styled His Serene Highness Prince Maurice of Battenberg. He attended Wellington College which had been founded by Queen Victoria and the Earl of Derby in 1859. Despite suffering from the family affliction of...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola) Cause of death: Killed in action Royal Burial Grounds at Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, England
Brown, John [cenotaph] b. December 8, 1826 d. March 27, 1883 Royal Servant. Born at Crathie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He served as a stable-boy on the Balmoral estate in Deeside in 1842 before it was acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as their retreat. Brown is first mentioned in the Queen's journal in 1849. In 1858 he became Prince Albert's personal attendant. After the Prince's death in 1861, Borwn was sent south to the Queen's residence at Osborne House in 1864 with her favorite Highland pony in order to tempt her into normal activity once...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola) Royal Burial Grounds at Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, England Plot: Cenotaph only.
Cambridge, Adolphus b. August 13, 1868 d. October 24, 1927 British Nobility, Duke of Teck, 1st Marquess of Cambridge. He was born His Serene Highness Prince Adolphus Charles Alexander Albert Edward George Philip Louis Ladislaus of Teck, the eldest son of Prince Francis of Teck and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, and younger brother of Mary of Teck, who became Queen Mary. Due to his abnormally long string of names, he was commonly called "Dolly" by his family. Educated at Wellington College, he then attended the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst...[Read More] (Bio by: VampireRed) Royal Burial Grounds at Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, England
Cambridge, Dorothy b. May 18, 1899 d. April 1, 1988 British Aristocracy. Born Dorothy Isabel Westenra Hastings, the daughter of the Honorable Osmund William Toone Westenra Hastings and Mary Caroline Campbell Tarrett in Cirencester, Goucestershire, England. In April 1923 she married Sir George Francis Hugh Cambridge, 2nd Marquess of Cambridge. The couple had one daughter. On the death of the marquess in 1981, she maintained dower rights but without a male heir, his titles became extinct. She passed away seven years later and was interred within...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola) Royal Burial Grounds at Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, England
Cambridge, George b. October 11, 1895 d. April 16, 1981 British Aristocracy. Marquess of Cambridge. Born His Serene Highness Prince George Francis Hugh von Teck at Grosvenor House, London, the son of Lieutenant Colonel Sir Adolphus Charles Cambridge, Duke of Teck and Lady Margaret Evelyn Grosvenor. He Attended Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford University. During World War I, the British royal family dropped all Germanic titles and the Duke relinquished the title Duke of Teck, legally changing the family surname to Cambridge by Royal License. He was...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola) Royal Burial Grounds at Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, England
Christian of Schleswig-Holstein b. January 22, 1831 d. October 28, 1917 European Royalty. Born Frederick Christian Charles Augustus in Augustenborg, Denmark, the second son of Christian August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg House of Oldenburg, and his wife, Louise of Danneskjold-Samsøe. In September 1865, he met the British Princess, Helena, a daughter of HRM Victoria and Prince Albert. The couple became engaged in December of that year. They married at the Private Chapel at Windsor Castle on July 5, 1866. The couple would have six children...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola) Royal Burial Grounds at Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, England
Edward VIII b. June 23, 1894 d. May 28, 1972 British Monarch. The King of England who abdicated to marry a divorced American. He was never crowned and his reign lasted only 325 days. Edward was born at White Lodge, Richmond, Surrey, England the first in a family of Six to The Duke and Duchess of York, the future king of England. A younger brother, Prince John, was mentally challenged, and was kept out of public view until his death as a teenager. He attended all...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield) Royal Burial Grounds at Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, England Plot: Buried next to Wallis, Duchess of Windsor behind Frogmore Mausoleum
George, Prince b. December 20, 1902 d. August 25, 1942 British Royalty. Born George Edward Alexander Edmund Saxe-Coburg and Gotha at York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk, England, the fourth son of George V and Mary von Teck. In 1917 during the height of anti-German sentiment in WWI Britain, his name was legally changed to George Edward Alexander Edmund Windsor. He was invested as a Knight, Order of the Garter in 1923; as a Knight Grand Cross, Royal Victorian Order in 1924; earned the rank of Lieutenant in 1926 in the Royal Navy, but was invalided...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola) Royal Burial Grounds at Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, England Plot: Behind Frogmore Mausoleum
Helena of Schleswig-Holstein b. May 3, 1870 d. March 13, 1948 English Royalty. Born Helena Victoria, she was the eldest daughter of Princess Helena of Great Britain and Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Called "Thora" by her family, Princess Helena never married. She was a tireless patron of charities, and was created a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of Bath, a Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, and was a Lady of the Order of Victoria and Albert and a Lady of the Order of the Crown...[Read More] (Bio by: VampireRed) Royal Burial Grounds at Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, England
Louise Marie of Schleswig-Holstein b. August 12, 1872 d. December 8, 1956 English Royalty. Daughter of Princess Helen and granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, Princess Marie married Prince Aribert of Anhalt in 1891. They divorced in 1900 and Prince Marie resumed her maiden name upon her divorce and her German titles in 1917. She died childless. (Bio by: Connie Nisinger) Royal Burial Grounds at Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, England
Louise of Prussia b. June 25, 1860 d. March 14, 1917 German Royalty. The Duchess of Connaught, she was born Luise Marguerite Alexandra Victoria Agnes at the Marble Palace near Potsdam, Germany, and was the daughter of Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia and Princess Marie of Anhalt-Dessau. She married Prince Arthur Saxe-Coburg, Duke of Connaught, on March 13, 1879 at St. George's Chapel. The couple had three children - Margaret, Arthur, and Patricia. Louise accompanied her husband, a career army officer, on his various deployments to Malta, India...[Read More] (Bio by: VampireRed) Royal Burial Grounds at Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, England Plot: Buried behind Frogmore Mausoleum, Windsor Great Park, Windsor, England
Marie of Yugoslavia b. January 9, 1900 d. June 22, 1961 Queen Marie was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert of the United Kingdom. The daughter of King Ferdinand I of Romania & Princess Marie of Great Britain & Ireland, Queen Marija Karadjordjevic was educated at the Romanian oryal palace. She spoke Romanian, English, French, German & Serbian. Her Majesty was occupied with science, physics & chemistry as well as being a great painter & sculptor. During & after World War II she took part in many humitarian organizations &...[Read More] (Bio by: Connie Nisinger) Royal Burial Grounds at Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, England
Marina of Greece, Princess b. December 13, 1906 d. August 27, 1968 European Royalty. Duchess of Kent. Born Marina zu Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg in Athens, Greece to Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, and Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna, grand-daughter of Czar Alexander II. Her family were forced into exile when she was 11 following the overthrow of the Greek monarchy. She married George Edward Alexander Edmund Windsor, 1st Duke of Kent, son of Britain's George V and Queen Mary, in November 1934 at Westminster Abbey. She was, to date, the...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola) Royal Burial Grounds at Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, England Plot: Behind Frogmore Mausoleum
Mountbatten, Leopold Arthur Louis b. May 21, 1889 d. April 23, 1922 British Royalty. Born Leopold Arthur Louis von Battenburg, the third child of Henry Maurice, Prinz von Battenberg and Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore Saxe-Coburg and Gotha of the United Kingdom, Queen Victoria's youngest child. With the advent of the First World War, anti-German sentiment moved the British Royal family to drop German titles and anglicize Germanic names; as a result von Battenburg legally changed his name to Leopold Arthur Louis Mountbatten by Royal License in July 1917...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola) Cause of death: Hemophilia Royal Burial Grounds at Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, England
Ramsay, Alexander b. May 29, 1881 d. October 8, 1972 British Aristocracy. Born Alexander Robert Maule Ramsay in London, England, the son of Sir John William Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie and Lady Ida Louise Bennet. He joined the Royal Navy as a cadet on HMS Britannia in 1894. In 1911 he became a naval aide-de-camp to the Duke of Connaught. He saw active duty during WWI and was decorated with the Companion, Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.) in 1916, and with the Legion of Honor. He served as Naval Attaché to Paris between 1919 and 1922. In...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola) Royal Burial Grounds at Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, England