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Mary Florence Gordon (née Clixby), Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair

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Mary Florence Gordon (née Clixby), Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair

by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate film negative, 19 March 1936
Given by Bassano & Vandyk Studios, 1974
Photographs Collection
NPG x151985

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Following the death of his father George V, Edward succeeds to the throne as King Edward VIII, but chooses to abdicate in order to marry the American divorcee, Wallis Simpson. Edward was the only monarch every to voluntarily relinquish the throne.

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The Spitfire, designed by Reginald Mitchell, has its maiden flight. The RAF and other allied forces used the plane extensively and to great effect during the Second World War.
Television broadcasting begins. Although the BBC had been transmitting television since 1930, regular service did not begin until 1936, when the 'BBC Television Service' (now BBC One) was broadcast from Alexandra Palace.

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The Spanish Civil War begins. Nationalists, led by General Francisco Franco, and supported by Italian and German fascist governments, rebelled against the Second Spanish Republic. The conflict lasted until 1939, and anticipated many of the features of the Second World War: fighting between Communists and Fascists, the rise of nationalism and the use of terror tactics against civilians.

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Peter Woods

23 February 2020, 17:50

Mary Florence, wife of the 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen, did not herself come from an aristocratic background. She was the daughter of a Lincolnshire farmer, Joseph Clixby. She married her husband (then Lord Haddo) in 1906, when she was 49 and he, 27. Haddo was a college friend of her son by her previous marriage to a Sheffield draper. The match was encouraged by his parents, in spite of their differences in class, as he was an epileptic and they were concerned that his condition might be passed on to his children