Which son of Queen Victoria served as Governor General of Canada?

Which son of Queen Victoria served as Governor General of Canada? Prince Arthur. Arthur William Patrick Albert was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s third son and the seventh of their nine children. He became Duke of Connaught and Strathearn in 1874 after a long military career.

Arthur served as Canada’s governor general from 1911 to 1916, during the early years of the First World War. He was the first governor general who was a member of the British royal family, and he represented King George V in Canada. His duties included opening Parliament, travelling across the country, and supporting wartime patriotic efforts.

He is sometimes confused with his older brothers Edward, later King Edward VII, and Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. Arthur was not a Canadian monarch; the governor general is the monarch’s representative. His daughter, Princess Patricia, became a popular Canadian public figure, and the Canadian infantry regiment Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry was named in her honour.