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unusual facts about Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk


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Lord Carnegie was the son of the 11th Earl of Southesk (1893–1992), and HH Princess Maud of Fife (1893–1945), and heir-apparent to Lord Southesk's Earldom.


Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk

Princess Maud was the younger daughter of the Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife and Louise, Princess Royal.

His eldest son, James, had already inherited the title of Duke of Fife from his aunt, Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife.

When his father succeeded to the earldom in 1905 he was styled Lord Carnegie as the eldest son of the Earl of Southesk.

The title of Earl of Southesk is now used as a subsidiary title of the Duke of Fife, and is used by the 11th Earl's grandson, David Carnegie, Earl of Southesk.

Together the couple had one child, James George Alexander Bannerman Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife, 12th Earl of Southesk (born 23 September 1929).

His father was the 10th Earl of Southesk, the son of the 9th Earl of Southesk and Lady Catherine Hamilton Noel.


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