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liv DUKE OF EDINBURGH.

RINCE ALFRED ERNEST ALBERT,, Earl of Ulster and Kent, Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Saxony and Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, K.G., K.T., G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., P.C., Master of the Trinity House, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, and a Colonel in the German army, also Captain in the Russian Black Sea Fleet, and Naval A.D.C. to the Queen; b. 6 Aug. 1844; baptized at Windsor Castle; m. 23 Jan. 1874, at St. Petersburg, H.I.H. the Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna (V.A., C.I.), only dau. of His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias, and has a son and 3 daus.

[1] Prince Alfred Alexander William Ernest Albert, b. 15 Oct. 1874; baptized at Buckingham Palace.

[2] Princess Marie Alexandra Victoria, b. 28 Oct. 1875.

[3] Princess Victoria Melita, b. 25 Nov. 1876.

[4] Princess Alexandra Louise Olga Victoria, b. 1 Sept. 1878.

—By letters patent under the Great Seal, 24 May, 1866.

—The royal arms, differenced by a label of three points arg. charged with St. George's cross, between two anchors az.; on an inescutcheon the arms of Saxony.

—On a coronet a lion guardant or, crowned with a coronet, differenced as the arms.

—The royal supporters crowned and differencd as in the crest.

—Eastwell Park, Ashford, Kent.

—Clarence House, St. James's, S.W.