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Alfred Duke of Edinburgh

1844 – 1900 · Generation XXXIV · House of Windsor

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Alfred Duke of Edinburgh (1844–1900). The second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, known as “Affie,” he entered the Royal Navy at fourteen; chosen in 1862 to succeed King Otto of Greece, he was kept from that throne largely by his mother’s opposition. Created Duke of Edinburgh in 1866, he took the frigate Galatea round the world and became the first royal to visit Australia, where in 1868 a gunman shot him in the back at Clontarf; Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital was built in thanks for his recovery. In 1874 he married Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna, daughter of Alexander II of Russia, in an unhappy match. He rose to Admiral of the Fleet and helped establish the Royal College of Music. In 1893 he succeeded his uncle Ernest II as Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. His only son died in 1899, and throat cancer killed him near Coburg the next year.

Place in the family

  • Alfred Duke of Edinburgh was a son of Queen Victoria.
  • Alfred Duke of Edinburgh was the fourth of 9 children of Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Queen Victoria recorded in this archive.

One of 53 people of House of Windsor (from 1917) in this archive. The present house — it renamed itself Windsor in 1917, setting aside the German title Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

Line of descent: Owen Tudor → Edmund Tudor → King Henry VII → Margaret Tudor → King James V of Scotland → Mary Queen of Scots → King James I → Elizabeth Stuart → Sophia of Hanover → King George I → King George II → Frederick Prince of Wales → King George III → Edward Duke of Kent → Queen Victoria → Alfred Duke of Edinburgh.

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