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== Youth: 1953–1977 ==
Euphemia was born during the reign of her grandfather [[Ernest II]] on 15 April 1953 to [[Alexander II & IV|Alexander, Duke of Ross]] and [[Mary d'Abro]]. Delivered at the Royal Maternity Hospital, Greenwich, was the first major royal to be born in a medical institution accessible to the public. Her father, the Duke of Ross, was the second son of Ernest II. Upon her baptism in the Palace of Whitehall on 19 April, she was given the name Euphemia, after both the medieval Scottish countess Euphemia of Ross and the Christian saint Euphemia of Chalcedon.
Mary d'Abro, her mother, was a noblewoman of Armeno–[[Sicily|Sicilian]] descent, making Euphemia the first modern British royal to have traceable Near Eastern and Italian heritage (≈25%). Mary's grandfather Salomone d'Abro Pagratide, an Armenian nobleman from Constantinople who was raised to the status of prince by the King of Sicily in 1869, claimed descent from the ancient Bagrationi dynasty of the Caucasus.
== Marriage and education ==
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