Francis, Duke of Teck Duchess of Cambridge. Mary Adelaide's requests to her cousin, Queen Victoria, for more funds were met with refusal; however, they were granted a grace-and-favour apartment in Kensington Palace, London and a country house, White Lodge, the former Royal deer-hunting lodge in Richmond Park, Southwest London. The Duke and Duchess lived beyond their means, leading to the build-up of large debts. In 1883, the Tecks fled the UK to continental Europe, where they stayed with relatives in Florence and Germany. They eventually returned to the UK in 1885. With an Order in Council on 1 July 1887, Queen Victoria granted Francis
Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge a political event hosted by members of the Leeds and County (Liberal) Unionist Club at Leeds Town Hall on 27 September 1894, Liberal Unionist Francis Martineau Lupton entertained his relative Joseph Chamberlain, MP. Francis Martineau's cousin, politician and mayor Sir Thomas Martineau, was Joseph Chamberlain's brother-in-law. Michael Middleton, the father of the Duchess of Cambridge, was born into a wealthy family with ties to the British aristocracy. His family had entertained members of the British Royal Family in Leeds from the 1920s. Shortly before his daughter married Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, in April 2011, he was granted a coat