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Alfred - Queen Victoria's Second Son (Paperback)
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Alfred - Queen Victoria's Second Son (Paperback)
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List price R471
Loot Price R385
Discovery Miles 3 850
You Save R86 (18%)
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Prince Alfred, who was created Duke of Edinburgh in 1866 and became
Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha in 1893, was the second son of Queen
Victoria and Prince Albert. A patron of the arts, pioneer
philatelist and amateur violinist, he joined the Royal Navy as a
boy and rose to become Admiral of the Fleet. At the age of 18 he
was elected King of Greece by overwhelming popular vote in a
plebiscite, although political agreements between the Great Powers
of Europe prevented him from accepting the vacant crown. The most
widely travelled member of his family, he had visited all five
continents by the age of 27, and while on a tour of Australia in
1868 he narrowly escaped assassination at the hands of a Fenian
sympathiser. Married to Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, the only
surviving daughter of Tsar Alexander II, at one stage he had to
face the possibility that he might be required to fight on behalf
of the British empire against that of his father-in-law. His last
years were overshadowed by marital difficulties, alcoholism and
ill-health, and the suicide of his only son and heir.
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