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Louise Caroline Alberta

18 March 1848 - 3 December 1939

Princess Louise Caroline Alberta was the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and she was a sculptor.

In 1871 she married Sir John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, the Marquess of Lorne, who was the eldest son of George Douglas, the eighth Duke of Argyll, and Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Sutherland Leveson-Gower, the eldest daughter of the second Duke of Sutherland.

Louise during the Edwardian years

Louise as a young woman

 

She became the Duchess of Argyll in 1900, but had no children. Louise became very active in the promotion of Women's Rights and the Arts.

Three portraits of Louise dating from the 1860's

Louise during the 1880's

Louise in 1871

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