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| | Melita |
 | | Victoria Melita was born on Saturday, November 25, 1876 in the San Antonio Palace in the Island of Malta, where her father, Alfred, Duke of Edimburgh, an officer of the British Royal Navy, had been temporarily stationed. |
 | | The Duke was Queen Victoria's second son and fourth child; his wife was Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia, the only daughter of Alexander II, so the newborn, who was her parent's third child and second daughter a granddaughter of bothe, Queen Victoria and Tsar Alexander. |
 | | Queen Victoria, who was their common grandmother, observed that the pair of cousins made a fine couple. |
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