His Royal Highness Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, who, on behalf of the King, is to fulfil an engagement at Birmingham to open a £1,000,000 hospital centre, was born at York Cottage, Sandringham, on March 31, 1900, and is the third -son of Queen Mary and the late King George V. Introduced into the Privy Council in 1925, he was deputed by His Majesty on a mission to Japan in 1929 to invest the Emperor with the Order of the Garter. He represented the King at the Coronation of the Emperor of Abyssinia, 1930, and at the Melbourne Centenary Celebrations in 1934, visiting New Zealand (including a time spent in Northland), the same year. In 1935 he married Lady Alice Christabel Montagu-Doug-las Scott.
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Northern Advocate, 13 July 1938, Page 4
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123His Royal Highness Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, who, on behalf of the King, is to fulfil an engagement at Birmingham to open a £1,000,000 hospital centre, was born at York Cottage, Sandringham, on March 31, 1900, and is the third -son of Queen Mary and the late King George V. Introduced into the Privy Council in 1925, he was deputed by His Majesty on a mission to Japan in 1929 to invest the Emperor with the Order of the Garter. He represented the King at the Coronation of the Emperor of Abyssinia, 1930, and at the Melbourne Centenary Celebrations in 1934, visiting New Zealand (including a time spent in Northland), the same year. In 1935 he married Lady Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas Scott. Northern Advocate, 13 July 1938, Page 4
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