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 CORNWALL 451 St. James's Palace, his first cousin, Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, 2nd da. of Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick.- WolfenbCttel, by Augusta, eldest sister of George III. She, who was b. 17 May 1768, was living when her husband, on 29 Jan. 1820, ascended the throne as George IV, whereby all his honours merged in the Crown. XXI. 1841. H.R.H. Albert Edward, Prince of the United King- dom of Great Britain and Ireland, DUKE OF CORN- WALL, also DUKE OF ROTHSAY, EARL OF CARRICK, BARON OF RENFREW [S.], Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of Scotland, also Duke of Saxony, was, at his birth, entitled to the abovenamed dignities, being ist s. and h. ap. of Queen Victoria, by H.R.H. Albert, Prince Consort, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Duke of Saxony. He was b. at Buckingham Palace, Midx., 9 Nov. 1841, and was bap. (in state) 25 Jan. 1842, at St. George's Chapel, Windsor, the King of Prussia being in person one of the sponsors. He had previously (like his great-uncle, George IV), when less than a month old, been cr., 8 Dec. 1841, PRINCE OF W.ALES and EARL OF CHESTER, with rem. to his heirs. Kings of the United Kingdom, (^) by which creation he became K.G., though not installed till 9 Nov. 1858, on his 17th birthday.C") On 17 Jan. 1850 he was cr. EARL OF DUBLIN "to hold to him and his heirs Kings of the United Kingdom ot Great Britain and Ireland for ever.' {^) Knight of the Golden Fleece, May 1852; Col. in the Army 1858; Knight Grand Cross of the Tower and Sword of Portugal, Mar. 1859; Dorset, 1st da. of Walter Smythe, of Bambridge, Hants (yr. son of Sir John Smythe, 3rd Bart. [1661]), by Mary, da. of John Errington, of Red Rice, near Andover, Hants. She d. i.p., 29 Mar. 1837, in her 82nd year, and was our. in the Rom. Cath. Church of St. John the Baptist, Brighton. Her character is generally (and probably correctly) highly spoken of, but Lady Anne Hamilton, in her Secret History of the Court of England., states that having "been left a widow twice, she afterwards accepted the protection of the Marquis Bellois, which intimacy was of considerable duration." (^) A copy of this patent is in the Annual Reg. for 1841. (">) In the statute, 10 Jan. 1805, it was recited that "the Prince of Wales is a constituent part of the original institution " of the order. The effect of this was " to restore the Prince of Wales to his former position within that number " {i.e. the original number of 25 Knights) of which he had been deprived by the statute of 1786 whereby "all the sons of the Sovereign" were excepted from forming part of the original number of 25. See vol. ii, Appendix B. It is to be observed also that [long before 1786] George, Prince of Wales (1762), was not nominated K.G. till 1765, 1'uv the Duke of Devonshire, while Edward, Prince of Wales (147 1) appears not to have been nominated till I475' (<=) His grandfather, the Duke of Kent, had, in 1799, been cr. Earl of Dublin {extinct 1820), and a like title {extinct I 790) had previously been conferred in 1766 on the Duke of Cumberland, br. of George III, but both of these Peerages were of the kingdom of Ireland only, whereas this Earldom of Dublin is one of the United Kingdom.