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Wedding of Major-General Haig and Dorothy Vivian
1905, Photograph
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Wedding of Major-General Haig and Dorothy Vivian
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Wedding of Major-General Haig and Dorothy Vivian
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The wedding photograph of the Her Majesty Queen Alexandra with the double wedding parties of Captain Douglas Haig and Lady Dorothy Vivian and Captain M.G. Bell and Lady Mary Dyke.
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1905
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Photograph
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HH4303-30-81
The then Major-General Douglas Haig married the Honourable Dorothy Maud Vivian on the 11th July 1905. The couple were wed at the private chapel in Buckingham Palace as part of a double wedding alongside Captain M.G. Bell of the Rifle Brigade and Honourable Mary Hart Dyke; the first such wedding to have ever occurred in the chapel.
The reason for the unusual and special circumstances for the wedding was owed to both brides being Maids-of-Honour to Her Majesty Queen Alexandra. Both King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra attended the intimate ceremony in which Her Majesty was particularly happy to see her great favourites become wed.
Douglas Haig was born in Charlotte Square, Edinburgh on the 9th June, 1861 to John Haig, the whisky distiller and Rachel Veitch. The young Douglas would spend the majority of his youth at the main family home of Cameron House in Fife before being educated at Clifton College, Bristol and then Brasenose College, Oxford.
Douglas Haig was commissioned into the 7th Hussars following his attendance the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, thus beginning a military career which would see several tours of India, action in both the war in the Sudan and South Africa before rising up the ranks to be posted as the head of the Aldershot Command prior to the First World War.
Douglas Haig went to war with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in August, 1914 in command of the I Corps. In December of 1915 following Sir John French's departure Haig took up the post as Commander-in-Chief of the BEF.
After the war Douglas Haig retired from the army in 1920, was created the 1st Earl Haig and spent the rest of his life seeing to the well-being of ex-servicemen.
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Field Marshal Earl Douglas Haig: Before the War
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