Prince Rupert of Teck (Rupert Alexander George Cambridge), (24 April 1907 – 15 April 1928) was a member of the British Royal Family, a great grandson of Queen Victoria. During World War I, the British Royal Family relinquished their Germanic titles, and Prince Rupert assumed the style Viscount Trematon in 1917.
Prince Rupert was born on 24 April 1907 at Claremont House, Esher, Surrey, England. His father was Prince Alexander of Teck, the second e...
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Prince Rupert of Teck (Rupert Alexander George Cambridge), (24 April 1907 – 15 April 1928) was a member of the British Royal Family, a great grandson of Queen Victoria. During World War I, the British Royal Family relinquished their Germanic titles, and Prince Rupert assumed the style Viscount Trematon in 1917.
Prince Rupert was born on 24 April 1907 at Claremont House, Esher, Surrey, England. His father was Prince Alexander of Teck, the second eldest son of Prince Francis, Duke of Teck and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge. His mother was Princess Alexander of Teck (née Princess Alice of Albany), the daughter of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany. Rupert took his title of Prince of Teck and style, His Serene Highness, from his father and was known as Prince Rupert of Teck.
Prince Rupert was a hemophiliac, a condition he inherited through his mother from his great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, through his grandfather, the Duke of Albany (himself a haemophiliac). He was educated at...
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