to the throne of Württemberg, was born Count Francis von Hohenstein (1837–1900), sharing the title his mother was granted by Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria on 16 May 1835, two weeks after the couple married in Vienna. In 1863, King Wilhelm I of Württemberg raised Francis in rank to "Prince (Fürst) of Teck" with the style Serene Highness (Durchlaucht), heritable by all his male-line descendants. In 1866, Francis married Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, a member of the British royal family and granddaughter of King George III. As the couple had to live on Mary's parliamentary annuity, the prince having inherited little income, they lived mostly in England—first at Kensington Palace (where their children were born) and later at Royal Lodge in Surrey, both residences lent them by Queen Victoria. In 1871, King Karl I of Württemberg granted Francis the new (and, within the German nobility, higher) title of "Duke (Herzog) of Teck", heritable by male-line primogeniture. In 1887, Queen Victoria granted the Duke of Teck the British style of Highness on a non-hereditary basis. In 1893, Francis' daughter, Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, married Prince George, Duke of York, who later reigned as King George V. When the first duke of Teck died in 1900, the title passed to his eldest son, Prince Adolphus of Teck. King George V granted the second duke of Teck, his brother-in-law, the personal style of Highness in 1911. The title existed until the First World War, when anti-German sentiment in the United Kingdom prompted the British monarch to adopt a non-German surname and relinquish all German titles on behalf of himself and those of his family members domiciled in his realms, including the Tecks. The duke of Teck thus renounced, in July 1917, his German titles of prince and duke in the Kingdom of Württemberg, as well as the styles of Highness and Serene Highness. Adolphus, along with his brother, Prince Alexander of Teck, assumed the name "Cambridge", which had been borne as a territorial designation by their maternal grandfather, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge. On 16 July 1917, Adolphus was created as "Marquess of Cambridge", "Earl of Eltham" and "Viscount Northallerton" in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. His elder son took the courtesy title of "Earl of Eltham". His younger children became "Lord/Lady (Christian name) Cambridge", as children of a marquess. Adolphus's younger brother, Alexander, who had married Princess Alice of