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Alfred (Alfred Ernest Albert; 6 August 1844 – 30 July 1900) was sovereign Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 22 August 1893 until his death in 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 reigning Duke of ...
Naval officer; second son of Queen Victoria 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 political conventions made it impossible for the British government to accede to their wishes. Meanwhile, Alfred pursued his naval career. In 1863 he was promoted to ...
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.
A veritable “Alfred movement” swept the country, equating the “Sailor Prince” with the liberal protection of British super power and – dreaming allowed – also with the generous gift of further (Ionian) territory to an expansion-minded youngster kingdom.
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.
Alfred was born at Wantage in Oxfordshire in 849, fourth or fifth son of Aethelwulf, king of the West Saxons. Following the wishes of their father, the sons succeeded to the kingship in turn.
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Osburh. Alfred the Great (Old English: Ælfrǣd [ˈæɫvˌræːd]; c. 849 – 26 October 899) was King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886, and King of the Anglo-Saxons from 886 until his death in 899. He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf and his first wife Osburh, who both died when Alfred was young.
