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Old Photograph Interior Mar Lodge Scotland
Old photograph of the interior of Mar Lodge near Braemar, Royal Deeside, Scotland. Mar Lodge is a sporting lodge, the principal building on the Mar Lodge Estate. It was built in 1895, replacing an earlier building, by Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife. Alexander William George Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, was born on 10 November 1849, styled Viscount Macduff between 1857 and 1879 and known as The Earl Fife between 1879 and 1889, was a British peer who married Princess Louise, the third child and eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. In December 1911, while sailing to Egypt on the SS Delhi, the Duke and his family were shipwrecked off the coast of Morocco. They spent some time in the water before being rescued and then had to walk four miles to find accommodation. Although they all survived, the Duke fell ill with pleurisy, probably contracted as a result of the shipwreck. He died at Aswan in Egypt on 29 January 1912, and his elder daughter, Princess Alexandra, succeeded to the dukedom of 1900, becoming Duchess of Fife and Countess of Macduff in her own right. His other titles, including the Dukedom created in 1889, all became extinct.
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