[Illustration: AGE 3. _From a Painting._]
[Illustration: AGE 5. _From a Painting by Johan Elmer._]
[Illustration: AGE 28. _From a Painting._]
[Illustration: AGE 40. _From a Painting._]
[Illustration: PRESENT DAY. _From a Photo. by Elliott & Fry._]
His Serene Highness Francis Paul Charles Louis Alexander, G.C.B., Prince
and Duke of Teck, is the only son of Duke Alexander of Würtemberg and
the Countess Claudine Rhédy and Countess of Hohenstein, a lady of a most
illustrious but not princely house. It is not generally known that a
family law, which decrees that the son of a marriage between a prince of
the Royal Family of Würtemberg and a lady not of princely birth, however
nobly born, cannot inherit the crown, alone prevents the Duke of Teck
from being King of Würtemberg. The Duke of Teck has served with
distinction in the Army, having received the Egyptian medal and the
Khedive's star, together with the rank of colonel.