He could have been King of England... (if George V was a bigamist)

Alastair Arthur Windsor was the only child of Prince Arthur of Connaught and Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife.

Alastair died in 1943, at the age of 28, in mysterious circumstances.

He could have been King of England... (if George V was a bigamist) and Edward VIII, George VI and his children were disbarred from the throne. - By CHRISTOPHER WILSON

1.  Circa 1890, George was not expected to become king, as he had an older brother, Prince Albert Victor,(Son of Edward VII). However, Albert Victor died of influenza in January 1892.

"In 1943 Alastair, 2nd Duke of Connaught, got drunk, fell out of a window and froze to death. He could have been our king.

"Alastair would have been king in 1942 if it had been proved that King George V had secretly married the daughter of an admiral while in Malta serving as a young midshipman.

"A rumour circulating in high society at the time whispered that George V had  been wed, privately and unannounced, to a woman named Mary Culme-Seymour in 1890.

"The whisperers went so far as to claim that the couple had produced three children."



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King George V, Queen Victoria's grandson with his wife Mary of Teck. Rumours suggested that he was already married by the time he proposed to Mary - and that their children, Edward VIII and George VI were therefore illegitimate

It was suggested that George V had already married Mary Elizabeth Culme-Seymour. The courts found this claim to be libellous, but she aroused suspicion by 'forgetting' that she had danced with the then Prince of Wales in Portsmouth.

The four sons of Queen Victoria: Bertie,the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), Affiie, the Duke of Edinburgh, Arthur, the Duke of Connaught and Leopold, the Duke of Albany

George inherited the throne from his father Edward VII in 1910 and a newspaper article in The Liberator directly accused the new king – by then married to Princess May of Teck – of bigamy.


Edward VII had no other sons living. (His brother Affie, Duke of Edinbugh– second son of Queen Victoria and next in line – was dead, and his own son Alfred, who would then have inherited the crown, had shot himself after contracting a secret marriage of his own).

The crown therefore would have gone to George's uncle Prince Arthur, the Duke of Connaught and Queen Victoria's third son.

In 1942, when the old boy died, it would have passed to his grandson Alastair, 2nd Duke of Connaught

Who? You might well ask.


The family tree of Alastair, 2nd Duke of Connaught

Sir Arthur Bigge, later Lord Stamfordham, who issued a stout denial of the claims that Geroge V was a bigamist

The coming of age celebration of the Earl of MacDuff, centre, son of Prince and Princess Arthur of Connaught

Prince and Princess Arthur of Connaught with their son Alastair, the Earl of MacDuff who would become 2nd Duke of Connaught