What is Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester?
{{EngvarB|date=April 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox royalty | name =Birgitte | title =[[Duchess of Gloucester]] ([[#Titles, styles, honours and arms|more]]) | image = File:Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester 2015.jpg | caption =The Duchess of Gloucester in 2015 | alt =The Duchess of Gloucester in her late sixties | birth_name =Birgitte Eva van Deurs Henriksen | birth_date ={{Birth date and age|1946|06|20|df=yes}} | birth_place =[[Odense]], Denmark | spouse ={{marriage|[[Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester]]|8 July 1972}} | issue ={{plain list| * [[Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster]] * [[Lady Davina Windsor]] * [[Lady Rose Gilman]]}} | house =[[House of Windsor|Windsor]] (by marriage) | father =Asger Henriksen | mother =Vivian van Deurs |religion=Church of England}} {{British Royal Family}} '''Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|GCVOf|DStJ|CD}} (born '''Birgitte Eva van Deurs Henriksen'''; 20 June 1946) is a Danish member of the [[British royal family]]. She is married to [[Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester]], a grandson of [[George V]]. They have three children. ==Marriage and family== [[File:Duke and Duchess of Gloucester.jpg|thumb|left|The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester]] Birgitte first met [[Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester|Prince Richard of Gloucester]], the younger son of [[Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester]], and [[Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester]], in the late 1960s in Cambridge, where he attended university. In February 1972, their engagement was announced.<ref name=royal/> They married on 8 July 1972 at St Andrew's Church, [[Barnwell, Northamptonshire]].<ref name=royal/> Six weeks after their wedding, Prince Richard's elder brother, [[Prince William of Gloucester]], was killed in a flying accident. Prince Richard unexpectedly became [[heir apparent]] to the [[duke]]dom and upon his father's death in 1974, the couple became the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester.<ref name=ro