#Prince Alfred of Edinburgh

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September is National Suic1de Prevention and Awareness Month. Never forget the brave souls who did all they could to fight. Always reach out for help and never stop fighting.

~ Princess Alfred of Edinburgh, Hereditary Prince of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, 1874-1899

~ Princess Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, 1858-1899

~ Princess Feodora of Saxe Meiningen, 1879-1945

~ Princess Joachim of Prussia, 1890-1920

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Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, with his sister, Princess Helena of Schleswig-Holstein, then both Prince/Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, posing for a portrait, 1850s

Source: Royal Collection Trust

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He looks like a spitting image of his sisters!

And some royal drags? : Alfred , hereditary prince of Saxe coburg and gotha (middle) with some mates, all in ladies costumes. Early 1890s

I wonder if his grandma (Queen Victoria) , saw this image…

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Two group photographs of Prince Louis and Princess Alice of Hesse with their two daughters, Victoria and Elisabeth, alongside Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, and Prince Alfred, 1865.

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Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh.

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FOUR DAUGHTERS OF PRINCE ALFRED OF EDINBURGH AND GRAND DUCHESS MARIA ALEXANDROVNA OF RUSSIA💗🥺✨️

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Aww🥺❤

Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia with her adorable baby grandson, Prince Alfred of Edinburgh, 1875.

I would like to find a photo of the Empress with her other grandchildren.

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BORN ON THIS DAY:

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 reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in the German Empire.

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Matching Daguerreotype sets of the four eldest children of Queen Victoria

Victoria, Edward, Alice, Alfred

Circa: 1850s

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King George V with his cousins Grand Duke Ernst Louis of Hesse and Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, late 1880s

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On December 18th 1780 the Society of Antiquaries was founded.

The purpose of the Society is set out in the Royal Charter: “…to investigate both antiquities and natural and civil history in general, with the intention that the talents of mankind should be cultivated and that the study of natural and useful sciences should be promoted.

The original members began to donate material to the Society from its inception, and in 1781 it bought a property so that the donations it received could be properly deposited. The Antiquarian Society Hall appears on the Alexander Kincaid A Plan of the City and Suburbs of Edinburgh in 1784, located off the Cowgate and behind Parliament Close off the Royal Mile (then Lawnmarket). After several moves, the Society rented accommodation in the Institution for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts (later the Royal Institution) at the foot of The Mound in 1826 (now the Royal Scottish Academy). A detailed account of the history of the Museum was written by RBK Stevenson, former Keeper of the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland and President of the Society, in The Scottish Antiquarian Tradition, edited by A S Bell and published to mark the bicentenary of the Society and its Museum in 1981

In 1841 there were over 4,000 visitors, including the Queen and Prince Albert, to the Society Museum to view the thousands of objects collected over the previous 60 years. By 1850 free admission to this collection was attracting 17,000 visitors per year, which led in turn to the accelerated expansion of the collection as donations flowed in, and to the publication of a 150 page catalogue.

In November 1851 the signing of a Deed of Conveyance with the Board of Manufactures on behalf of Parliament made the Society collections National Property in return for fit and proper accommodation at all times, for the preservation and exhibition of the collection, and also for the Society’s meetings, free of all expense to them. By this time the collections were housed in 24 George Street, they then moved back to the mound before sharing The National Portrait Gallery for a time.

In 1861 construction of the Industrial Museum of Scotland began, with Prince Albert laying the foundation stone. In 1866, renamed the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, the eastern end and the Grand Gallery were opened by Prince Alfred. In 1888 the building was finished and in 1904 the institution was renamed the Royal Scottish Museum.

There have been many extensions to the building over the years to accommodate the growing collections, the latest was finished in 2011, giving us the splendid new building adjoined to the old one, they also opened up the basement as a shop and cafeteria, the Society still functions today. the museum is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Scotland and in 2019 approximately 2.2 million visitors passed through it’s doors, the way things are going it will be a while before we see anything like these numbers again.

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Queen Victoria with Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; Maria Alexandrovna, Duchess of Edinburgh; and Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha at Coburg for the wedding of Grand Duke Ernest Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh, 1894.

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BABY BEA! 🥹💗

Princess Louise, Princess Helena, Princess Beatrice, Prince Alfred, Princess Alice and Queen Victoria, Buckingham Palace, 1860.

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Who is the finest son of QV in ur opinion? :)

i'd definitely say younger Alfred! 😍😍😍

Thanks for the ask anon!