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- Prince Alfred (1844-1900) was the second and favourite son of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha. He was spared the draconian private education established by Prince Albert that traumatised his elder brother Bertie (the future King Edward VII) and entered the Royal Navy aged twelve in 1856.
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Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Alfred (Alfred Ernest Albert; 6 August 1844 – 30 July 1900) was sovereign Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1893 to 1900. He was the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He was known as the Duke of Edinburgh from 1866 until he succeeded his paternal uncle Ernest II as the ...
Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Alfred Alexander William Ernest Albert; 15 October 1874 – 6 February 1899), was the son and heir apparent of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He died aged 24 under circumstances still not entirely clear.
6 August 1844 - 30 July 1900. Prince Alfred, the fourth child and second son of Queen Victoria and Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the Prince Consort, was born at Windsor Castle and was second in the line of succession behind his elder brother, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales.
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. (1844-1900), Naval officer; second son of Queen Victoria. Sitter associated with 79 portraits. Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, joined the Navy in 1858, at the age of fourteen. On the abdication of King Otto of Greece in 1862, Alfred was chosen by the Greeks to succeed him, but ...
HRH Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (1844-1900) The fourth child and second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Prince Alfred was born in Windsor Castle in 1844. He entered the navy and made a good impression, and was offered the position of King of Greece when Otto abdicated in 1862; the British Government declined on his behalf.
With the eighteenth birthday of his heir looming large, he wanted Queen Victoria to deliver on her promise that Prince Alfred would end his “maritime project” and fully commit to his Coburg destiny once he had come of age.
Prince Alfred (1844-1900) was the second and favourite son of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha. He was spared the draconian private education established by Prince Albert that traumatised his elder brother Bertie (the future King Edward VII) and entered the Royal Navy aged twelve in 1856.
