The Coronet and Velvet and Ermine Coronation Robes of a Marquess of the United Kingdom made for George, 2nd Marquess of Cambridge, G.C.V.O. and worn at the Coronation King George VI in 1937

hallmarked London 1936

£ 14500

George Francis Hugh Cambridge, 2nd Marquess of Cambridge , (11 October 1895 - 16 April 1981) known as Prince George of Teck until 1917 and as Earl of Eltham from 1917 to 1927, was a nephew of Queen Mary, and the eldest son of Prince Adolphus 'Dolly' of Teck, who was created 1st Marquess of Cambridge in 1917. Born at Grosvenor House, the Mayfair home of his maternal grandfather, the 1st Duke of Westminster, he was styled at birth His Serene Highness Prince George of Teck, being both a descendant of both King George III and the Royal House of Württemberg. In June 1917, when his father at the request of George V, relinquished the family's German titles in the Kingdom of Württemberg and the German Empire, Prince George became George Cambridge and was styled Earl of Eltham as a courtesy title. Educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, he served in the Life Guards during the First World War as an aide-de-camp on the Personal Staff in 1918-19. In 1923 he married Lady Isabel Hastings, daughter of the 13th Earl of Huntingdon. He succeeded his father as 2nd Marquess of Cambridge in 1927, and pursued a career in banking with Coutts & Co until retirement in 1951. In the same year that he succeeded to the marquessate he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in June 1927 and was promoted to Knight Grand Cross in June1935.
 

Lord and Lady Cambridge regularly attended major royal occasions, participating in the coronations of George V, George VI and Elizabeth II. On the death of Lord Cambridge in 1981, his peerages became extinct, his brother, Lord Frederick Cambridge, having been killed in action while serving in the Coldstream Guards in Belgium in 1940.