Kelly's handbook to the titled, landed and official classes.

Date:
1880
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Kelly's handbook to the titled, landed and official classes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    THE ROYAL FAMILY HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA. Alexandrina Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of G-reat Britain and Ireland, and of the Colonies and Dependencies thereof in Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Australasia, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India, Sovereign of the orders of the Garter, the Thistle, St. Patrick, the Bath, the Star of India, St. Michael and St. George, the Victoria Cross, the Order of the Indian Empire, and the Imperial order of the Crown of India, only child of the late prince Edward, duke of Kent and Strathearn (fourth s. of George III.), k.g., k.t., k.p., g.c.b., by princess Victoria Mary Louisa, dau. of Francis Frederick, reigning duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, sister of late Leopold I., king of the Belgians, and widow of Charles, prince of Leiningen : b. at Kensington Palace, 24 May, 1819, baptised 24 June, succeeded to the throne on the death of her uncle, William IV., 20 June, 1837, crowned 28 June, 1838; m. 10 Feb., 1840, her cousin H.R.H. field-marshal prince’Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel (bro. of Ernest II., duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and cousin of prince Ferdinand, late king-regent of Portugal), duke of Saxony, prince of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha, k.g., k.t., k.p., g.c.b., g.c.m.g., ll.d., knight of the order of the Golden Fleece, constable of Windsor Castle, grand master of the order of the Bath, chancellor of Cambridge University (b. 26 Aug. 1819, d. 14 Dec. 1861). Buckingham Palace, S.W.; St. James's Palace, S.W.; Windsor Castle; Osborne House, Cowes, Isle of Wight; Balmoral, Aberdeenshire; [.Kensington Palace, W.; Hampton Court Palace S.W.; Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh; The Castle, Dublin]. Her Majesty has issue :— I.—H.R.H. Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa, Princess Royal, b. 21 November. 1840 ; m. 25 January, 1858, H.I.H. Frederick William, Crown Prince of Germany, k.g., and has issue :—1. Frederick William Victor Albert, k.g., b. 27 Jan., 1859 ; 2. Victoria Elizabeth Augusta Charlotte, b. 24 July, 1860 ; 3. Albert Wilhelm Heinrich, b. 14 Aug., 1862 ; 4. Francis Frederick Sigismund, b. 15 Sept., 1864, d. 18 June, 1866 ; 5. Frederica Wilhelmina Amelie Victoria, b. 12 April, 1866; 6. Joachim Frederick Ernest Waldemar, b. 10 Feb., 1868; 7. Sophia Dorothea Ulrica Alice, b. 14 June, 1870 ; 8. Margaret Beatrice Feodore, b. 22 April, 1872. LL—H.R.H. Albert Edward, prince of Wales, k.g., k.t., k.p., g.c.b., g.c.s.i. g.c.m.g., P.C., prince of Scotland (1469), prince of Saxe Coburg and Gotha (1841), duke of Cornwall (1337), duke of Rothesay (1393), duke of Saxony (1841), earl of Carrick (1469), earl of Chester (1841), earl of Dublin (1849), baron Renfrew (1469), lord of