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
James Stuart, Duke of Cambridge have been the first Protestant in the line of succession to the crown, ahead of his sisters Mary and Anne, when the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688 deposed his father and insisted on a Protestant succession. Cambridge was born at 1:22 a.m. on , at St. James's Palace, the second but first surviving son and child of the Duke of York (later King James II of England) and his wife, Anne Hyde. He was a grandson of Charles I of England and great-grandson of Henry IV of France. His baptism took place at St. James's Palace on , and was performed