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Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester

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Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Richard Alexander Walter George; born 26 August 1944) is a member of the British royal family. He is the second son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, the youngest of the nine grandchildren of George V, nephew of Edward VIII and George VI, and first cousin of Elizabeth II. He is 32nd in the line of succession to the British throne, and the highest person on the list who is not a descendant of George VI. At the time of his birth, he was 5th in line to the throne. Richard practised as an architect until the death of his elder brother, William, placed him in direct line to inherit his father's dukedom of Gloucester, to which he succeeded in 1974. He married Birgitte van Deurs Henriksen on 8 July 1972. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester is the 1,186th most popular politician (up from 7,298th in 2019), the 321st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,437th in 2019) and the 76th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester ranks 1,186 out of 19,576. Before him are Balbinus, Abel, King of Denmark, János Kádár, Charles I of Hungary, Berke, and William Howard Taft. After him are Marcian, Chandragupta I, Sigismund I the Old, Cao Pi, Tokhtamysh, and Sukjong of Joseon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester ranks 15. Before him are John Holmes, Alexander Van der Bellen, Sebastião Salgado, Jairzinho, Reinhold Messner, and Rutger Hauer. After him are Ernő Rubik, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Miloš Zeman, Geraldine Chaplin, Jane Hawking, and Dzhokhar Dudayev.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester ranks 321 out of 8,785. Before him are Roger Waters (1943), Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901), Robert Shaw (1927), Kate Bush (1958), Charlotte, Princess Royal (1766), and Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943). After him are Tim Berners-Lee (1955), Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset (1519), Frederick North, Lord North (1732), Francis Crick (1916), Ben Kingsley (1943), and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester ranks 76. Before him are Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757), Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341), Henry I of England (1068), Harold Godwinson (1022), Louise, Princess Royal (1867), and Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881). After him are Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset (1519), Frederick North, Lord North (1732), Anthony Eden (1897), Edmund Ironside (993), James Connolly (1868), and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (1473).

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