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  21ST GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Prince Alfred Duke of EDINBURGH Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was born in 1844 in England - son of Queen Victoria.
Alfred of EDINBURGH was born in 1874 in England - son of Alfred Duke of Edinburg.
Alexandra of EDINBURGH was born in England - dtr of Alfred Prince of Edinburgh.
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 QUOTABLE EDINBURGH
It is the peculiar boast of Edinburgh, the circumstances on which its marvellous beauty so essentially depends, that its architecture is its landscape; that nature has done everything, has laid every foundation, and disposed of every line of its rocks and its hills, as if she had designed it for the display of architecture.
We entered Edinburgh in the dark, through mean, narrow streets, the aspect of which, by the faint light of dim lamps ill accorded with the magnificent promises of the splendour of the proud metropolis of the whole earth - of the capital of social elegance, and of perfect refinement.
Edinburgh, capital of Scotland since the 15th century, presents the dual face of an old city dominated by a medieval fortress and a new neoclassical city whose development from the 18th century onward exerted a far-reaching influence on European urban planning.
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 Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh & Saxe-Coburg Gotha (1844-1900)
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh & Saxe-Coburg Gotha (1844-1900)
Prince Alfred Alexander William Ernest Albert of Edinburgh, (H.R.H. The Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha)
Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Ulster and Kent, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh)
www.regiments.org /biography/royals/1844alfr.htm   (578 words)

  
 Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HRH Prince Alfred of Edinburgh was born on October 15, 1874 at Buckingham Palace, London.
His father was Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, second eldest son of Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Prince Alfred had lived in Clarence House in the early years of his life with his parents and sisters - after his father's accession to the ducal throne of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, he moved to Schloss Rosenau at Coburg.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prince_Alfred_of_Edinburgh   (441 words)

  
 Queen Marie of Rumania in Plymouth :: Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Marie's father, Prince Alfred (1844-1900), was the fourth child and second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Prince Alfred had made his career in the Royal Navy and on 4th August 1890 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of Devonport in succession to Admiral Sir William Dowell.
Alfred planned that his daughter Marie should marry Prince George (later King George V) who was in direct line of succession to the throne.
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 Prince Alfred's disastrous visit Jondaryan WoolShed
His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh, was on a two-year visit to Australia.
The special train carrying the Prince and his retinue of dignitaries ran hours late, arriving at Jondaryan after dark, throwing all the arrangements out for the official welcome and opening celebrations.
Prince Alfred was not impressed with his visit to Jondaryan, for on his return to England, he is reported as having told his mother Queen Victoria,
www.jondaryanwoolshed.com /03_the_woolshed/prince.htm   (669 words)

  
 Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Alfred soon recovered from his injury and was able to resume command of his ship and return home in early April 1868.
Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, the main settlement of Tristan da Cunha was named after Alfred after he visited the remote Islands in 1867 while Duke of Edinburgh.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Duke_Alfred_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha   (1852 words)

  
 Alfred Rowing Club
The Alfred Rowing Club was established in 1864 and was housed under the pier at Table Bay.
When the Prince visited Cape Town again in 1867, a six-oared boat from the Alfred Rowing Club put out to meet his ship and escorted his ship into the harbour.
By the time of Alfred of Wessex and his successors a kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons existed in England, which lasted until the Norman conquest.
www.alfred.wcrowing.org   (497 words)

  
 Prince Alfred visit to Australia in 1868
Prince Alfred who had ‘grown in favour with all classes of people daily’ during his visit to Sydney was shot by Irishman Henry James O’Farrell.
Prince Alfred on departing Sydney was with high emotions of his ‘conviction of the loyalty of the colonists at large’, noting that Australia was consider a Colony of England and not a country in our own right under the umbrella of the Empire.
The shooting of Prince Alfred made national headlines and gave a general feeling of indignation and hurt of national pride.
www.shoalhaven.net.au /~cathyd/history/prince.html   (1725 words)

  
 Prince Alfred of Saxe Coburg & Gotha 1897, by Lafayette
Sitter: Alfred (Alexander William Ernest Albert), Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874-1899).
Alfred’s mother, the unsympathetic Grand Duchess Marie, now Duchess of Coburg — with her horror of impropriety and deeply galled at her son’s waywardness — refused to have him in the palace during the celebrations.
Prince Alfred’s swagger pose mirrors exactly the pose in which he is seen in the very few published images of him.
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 Alfred Archives at the Alfred Hospital   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Alfred Archives was established in 1995 as a centre for the protection of the Hospital’s heritage collection and for historical research.
The Alfred Hospital was founded in 1869 as a result of the work of a number of Melbourne doctors who fought a long and internecine battle for an additional general hospital in the swelling colonial metropolis.
Since its inception, The Alfred set itself apart from the Melbourne Hospital and the Alfred was at the vanguard of health care provision.
www.alfred.org.au /departments/alfred_archives.html   (965 words)

  
 Victoria's Descendants quiz -- free game
Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip, are both descendants of Victoria, and are related to her in the same way.
The children of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
Prince Albert, Victoria's beloved husband died on the December 14, 1861, exactly 17 years later to the day their daughter Alice also died.
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 Victoria of the United Kingdom information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
At the age of fifty the Duke of Kent and Strathearn married Princess Viktoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, the sister of Princess Charlotte's widower Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and widow of Karl, Prince of Leiningen.
Many scholars have suggested that Prince Albert was not in love with young Victoria, and that he entered into a relationship with her in order to gain social status (he was a minor German prince) and out of a sense of duty (his family desired the match).
The Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duke of Edinburgh (Alfred Ernest Albert)
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 Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-Duke of Edinburgh in command of HMS Galatea, visits Australia for the first Royal Tour, ...
Prince Alfred was not impressed with his visit to Jondaryan, for on his return to England, he is reported as having told his mother Queen Victoria, "In New South Wales they shot at me, in Victoria they mobbed me, but in Queensland they sent me to Jondaryan and inflicted me with over zealous officials."
Alfred remained an active Naval Officer, he was promoted to Rear Admiral on the 30th.
The hereditary Prince Alfred was involved in a scandal about his mistress and shot himself in January of 1889, during his parents 25th.
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 NPG 6203; Queen Victoria's First Visit to her Wounded Soldiers (includes Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha; George ...
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1819-1861), Prince Consort of Queen Victoria.
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (1844-1900), Second son of Queen Victoria.
Seated on the bed talking to the princes is Sergeant Leny, who had fought at the battles of the Alma, Balaclava, and Inkerman, while the figure lying in bed behind him is the badly injured James Higgins, whose ‘appearance caused much painful emotion to her Majesty’.
www.npg.org.uk /live/search/portrait.asp?mkey=mw08509   (287 words)

  
 About the Alfred Hospital   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The hospital was built in honour of His Royal Highness, Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, who survived an assassination attempt in 1868 while visiting Australia.
So thankful were the people of Melbourne for the safety of their Prince that they established a fund to build a hospital in his name.
The Alfred’s Mission is to provide high quality, cost effective care founded on excellent practice, teaching and research "which improves the quality of life of Australians".
www.alfred.org.au /about_us.html   (282 words)

  
 City of Sydney - History - Links in the Chain - Laying Stones
Size: 30 KB On the 4 April 1868 Prince Alfred, The Duke of Edinburgh attended his first public outing following the attempted assassination at Clontarf two months earlier.
Prince Alfred sat for an hour at Government House while Scott made sketches for his intended portrait.
The illustration shows the imposing stone gate piers and wrought iron railing fence which were removed in 1934 along with the porte-cochere to create a new entrance.
www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au /history/linksinthechain/LayingStones.html   (512 words)

  
 NPG x95985; Grand Duchess Kirril of Russia (née Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh); Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg ...
Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874-1899), Only son of Prince Alfred of Edinburgh.
Princess Ernest of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (née Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh) (1878-1942), Daughter of Prince Alfred of Edinburgh; wife of Ferdinand I, King of Roumania.
Grand Duchess Kirril of Russia (née Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh) (1876-1936), Daughter of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh; wife of Grand-Duke Kirill of Russia.
www.npg.org.uk /live/search/portrait.asp?search=ss&sText=Saxe-Coburg&LinkID=mp55433&rNo=2&role=sit   (150 words)

  
 Flags of the Royal Family, United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Albert, Duke of Saxony, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 1857(?) - 1861
The inescutcheon of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha is on the standard of the Prince of Wales in the 1905 Flaggenbuch.
It is unusual (in Royal Standard terms) in that the Duke of Edinburgh’s arms are at the hoist, and the Royal Arms, differenced with Princess Elizabeth’s label, are in the fly.
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 National Portrait Gallery A-Z of Portrait Sitters (A)
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853-1884), Fourth and youngest son of Queen Victoria.
Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein (1869-1931), 2nd eldest child of Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein.
Prince Andrew Alexandrovitch of Russia (1897-1981), Grandson of Tsar Nicholas I. 4 portraits.
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 Prince Alfred of Edinburgh (1874-1899)
Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Saxony, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, with the style of His Royal Highness (H.R.H. The Prince Alfred of Edinburgh).
H.R.H. The Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Captain, 2nd (Prince of Wales's) Volunteer Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment
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 Edinburgh History - Dates
This was one of the buildings photographed by Talbot on his visit to Edinburgh in the early 1840s.
Edinburgh Races: The Caledonian Hunt and Edinburgh Races were held for the first time, in 1816, at Musselburgh.
Edinburgh Improvement Act: Following several years of health problems and the collapse of a High Street tenement in 1861, debate took place in Edinburgh, resulting in the passing of the Edinburgh Improvement Act in 1867.
www.edinphoto.org.uk /1_edin/1_edinburgh_history_-_dates.htm   (2542 words)

  
 Yvonne's Royalty Home Page: Royal Christenings
The christening of Queen Victoria's fourth child, Prince Alfred, in 1844 was on a less grand scale than the one held for his elder brother, but it was nevertheless a chance for Her Majesty to celebrate lavishly.
Prince Leopold's cake was on display "in the centre of the table opposite to Her Majesty's seat" during the State Banquet in the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace.
• the Prince of Hesse (as is in Gent.
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 British Royal Family
Prince Albert Victor was firstly engaged to Princess Helene of Orleans (daughter of Count of Paris), this engagement was broken off due to difficulties in Princess Helene not being able to renounce her Roman Catholic religion.
Following the marriage of Camilla to Prince Charles she is known as HRH The Duchess of Cornwall.
Prince Charles who was born posthumously was a fervent Nazi supporter and after the second World War he was placed in an internment camp followed by a life of seclusion.
www.btinternet.com /~allan_raymond/British_Royal_Family.htm   (2055 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Exhibit
Prince Arthur was educated at Farnborough School, Hampshire, at Eton, and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Prince Arthur undertook state missions on behalf of King Edward VII and King George V to two successive Emperors of Japan in 1906, 1912, and 1918, and represented the King on state occasions in Portugal (1908) and in Russia, Bavaria, and Italy (1911).
Prince Arthur was appointed G.C.V.O. (1913), and G.C.M.G. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1910.
www.thepeerage.com /e173.htm   (670 words)

  
 Royal Engineers Museum - Corps amalgamation and Coastal Defence (1855-1905) - Part 8
On the Prince's coming of age Elphinstone was appointed 'Comptroller to His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught' and accompanied the Duke when he was serving in Canada with the Rifle Brigade.
Lieutenant Arthur B Haigh, RE was appointed Equerry to HRH Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (1844-1900), in 1864, a post he held until 1880.
Major Stanier Waller, RE was appointed Equerry to HRH Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853-1884), in 1879, a post he held until the Prince's death in 1884 after which he was appointed Extra Equerry to Queen Victoria.
www.remuseum.org.uk /corpshistory/rem_corps_part8.htm   (3231 words)

  
 Britannia: History of Windsor (Berkshire)
Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, d.1817, wife of Prince Leopold George Frederick of Saxe-Saalfeld-Coburg (later King Léopold I of the Belgians) & daughter of King George IV Unnamed Prince, b & d.1817, son of Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales & Prince Leopold George Frederick of Saxe-Saalfeld-Coburg (later King Léopold I of the Belgians)
Prince George, Duke of Bedford, d.1477, aged 2, third son of King Edward IV Princess Mary, d.1687, aged 1, second daughter of Queen Anne & Prince George of Denmark
Prince George, Duke of Bedford, b.1477, third son of King Edward IV Princess Mary, b.1466, second daughter of King Edward IV Princess Anne Sophia, b.1686, third daughter of Queen Anne & Prince George of Denmark
www.britannia.com /history/berks/winbur.html   (787 words)

  
 The Monarchy Today > Queen and Commonwealth > New Zealand > Royal visits
The first Royal visitor was Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria.
The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) visited New Zealand in 1920 during a tour of the Empire.
The Earl of Wessex, as Prince Edward, spent two terms in 1982 as a house tutor and junior master at the Collegiate School, Wanganui, New Zealand.
www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page4916.asp   (543 words)

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