August 5, 1926
Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden and his wife, Crown Princess Louise, sailed today from San Francisco to Honolulu. Before leaving, the Crown Prince issued a statement on his impressions of the United States. He and the Crown Princess toured the United States for a month.
According to the New York Times' report, Gustav warmly praised the intellectual life of this country as "something which should be more generally realized by the outside world in order to understand what is going on within the nation."
He sincerely appreciated the "spirit of friendship manifested by everyone."
"we have been struck by the phenomenal, rapid and continued growth of the cities, which certainly reflects the intense building-up still going on in all directions, and we have noticed the way you are attempting to cope with the ensuing traffic and building problems and to combine utility with the growing want to preserve beauty and to beautify.
"We have admired the remarkable organization of some of your world industries, where labor saving and efficiency combined with good quality seem to have attained their utmost practical impression. This strong organization seems to be achieved by the best cooperation of all forces involved. Then the wonderful development of your railroads and other means of communication, which I have pointed out several times.
"The turn to another side of the life of your nation. The high standing of your seats of learning, your valuable contributions to scientific research, much of which is nowadays pioneer work, your museums and other collections, so well provided for and so perfectly organized; your libraries and the the great interest the public takes in them all -- all this and many other things prove not only a high educational standard and a high level of science and the arts, but also a strong trend to still higher and better achievements."
Crown Prince Gustav and Crown Princess Louise will spend two weeks in the Hawaiian islands. They have requested that they be treated as tourists and not as "royal guests." They do not want any official welcome and do not want any formal functions.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
King Alexander weds his Draga
August 5, 1900
King Alexander of Serbia was married today to Draga Maschin. The ceremony was "performed with great pomp," according to the New York Times.
In honor of the wedding, King Alexander granted amnesty, and also granted political pardons.
Belgrade was decorated with flags and flowers, and the bridal procession made its way through the streets. Carpets were hung from window and the "balconies were crowded with people."
More than 30,000 people came from outside the capital and from abroad to see the wedding celebrations.
The bridal couple were proceeded by a Squadron of the Serbian Life Guards. King Alexander and his bride rode in an open carriage, "amid loud cheers" from the crowd. At the door of the cathedral, they were met at the door by the Metropolitan.
After receiving a blessing, the couple were married according to the rites of the Greek Orthodox church.
Following the service, the King and Queen "received the congratulations of the Diplomatic Corps. Afterwards, the royal couple got back into the carriage, and were driven back to the palace, where a wedding breakfast was served.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Former Queen Giovanna asks for DP aid
August 4, 1950
Former Queen Giovanna of Bulgaria, 43, who has been living in exile in Egypt since Bulgaria voted her son, King Simeon, off the throne in 1946, has asked IRO, the international relief organization, "whether she is eligible for aid as a displaced person," according to a Reuters report.
Giovanna, the widow of King Boris of Bulgaria, is the daughter of the late King Victor Emmanuel of Italy. She is the sister of ex-king Umberto of Italy.
The former queen is one of the heirs to a fortune of at least $104,000,000 in cash and property left by Victor Emmanuel. She is expected to come to Geneva this month as there is no IRO office in Egypt to discuss her situation with officials and make a formal application for assistance. It is understood that the queen will not request financial assistance.
In May, the Egyptian press reported "the foiling of an attempt to assassinate Simeon." Queen Giovanna wants "legal and political protection" for her family, and perhaps "help in resettlement in another country.
Egyptian police seized two men from Bulgaria "in the assassination attempt."
Former Queen Giovanna of Bulgaria, 43, who has been living in exile in Egypt since Bulgaria voted her son, King Simeon, off the throne in 1946, has asked IRO, the international relief organization, "whether she is eligible for aid as a displaced person," according to a Reuters report.
Giovanna, the widow of King Boris of Bulgaria, is the daughter of the late King Victor Emmanuel of Italy. She is the sister of ex-king Umberto of Italy.
The former queen is one of the heirs to a fortune of at least $104,000,000 in cash and property left by Victor Emmanuel. She is expected to come to Geneva this month as there is no IRO office in Egypt to discuss her situation with officials and make a formal application for assistance. It is understood that the queen will not request financial assistance.
In May, the Egyptian press reported "the foiling of an attempt to assassinate Simeon." Queen Giovanna wants "legal and political protection" for her family, and perhaps "help in resettlement in another country.
Egyptian police seized two men from Bulgaria "in the assassination attempt."
The IRO could provide Giovanna with legal assistance in "obtaining residence permits and travel documents," which she would not be able to obtain from the communist government in Bulgaria.
In June, a Rome court decreed that Giovanna, as one of Victor Emmanuel's three surviving daughters, "should share in four-fifths of his confiscated property."
The full extent of the property was not disclosed, but was believed to include "large estates, palaces, villas, and priceless art treasures, apart from bank accounts abroad."
Carol's coronation delayed
August 4, 1930
The New York Times is reporting that the "complete failure of all efforts to reduce Princess Helen to take back King Carol as her husband" is the reason for the postponement of Carol's coronation, set for October.
The preparations for the ceremony will continue "along with the reconiliation efforts," but if the reconiliation efforts remain unsuccessful, the coronation probably will be postponed until next spring.
Carol's brother-in-law, King Alexander of Yugoslavia, has promised to attend the ceremony.
The New York Times is reporting that the "complete failure of all efforts to reduce Princess Helen to take back King Carol as her husband" is the reason for the postponement of Carol's coronation, set for October.
The preparations for the ceremony will continue "along with the reconiliation efforts," but if the reconiliation efforts remain unsuccessful, the coronation probably will be postponed until next spring.
Carol's brother-in-law, King Alexander of Yugoslavia, has promised to attend the ceremony.
Empress Friedrich has cancer
August 4, 1900
The death of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha "has caused much solemn talk at Court, about the maladies of other members of the royal house," according to the New York Times. Despite denials from Berlin, it is "quite certain" that Empress Friedrich, Queen Victoria's "eldest and most beloved daughter," has cancer. Doctors believe that she has only a few months left to live.
The Empress is too ill to leave her castle, Schloss Friedrichshof, for her annual summer visit to England. Although Queen Victoria gave her White Lodge at Richmond last year to use as an English residence, it is unlikely that the Empress will "probably never be able to occupy it."
The death of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha "has caused much solemn talk at Court, about the maladies of other members of the royal house," according to the New York Times. Despite denials from Berlin, it is "quite certain" that Empress Friedrich, Queen Victoria's "eldest and most beloved daughter," has cancer. Doctors believe that she has only a few months left to live.
The Empress is too ill to leave her castle, Schloss Friedrichshof, for her annual summer visit to England. Although Queen Victoria gave her White Lodge at Richmond last year to use as an English residence, it is unlikely that the Empress will "probably never be able to occupy it."
The Duke of Coburg's Funeral
August 4, 1900
The Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha's imposing funeral was held today at St. Moritz Church in Coburg. The late duke's nephew, Kaiser Wilhelm II arrived at 11:30 in the morning and, according to the New York Times report, "was given an ovation by dense crowds awaiting him at all points along the route." Wilhelm's arrival at the train station was "quite private," where he was received by the young Duke Carl Eduard, the Hereditary Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, the Grand Duke of Hesse and By Rhine, and the Duke of York. There were "affectionate greetings" between the Kaiser and the new Duke of Saxe-Coburg and the other princes.
After Wilhelm's arrival, the funeral cortege was formed. The German walked in the "first rank" between the new Duke, Carl Eduard, and the Prince Regent, the Hereditary Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, who is married to the late Duke's third daughter, Alexandra. They were followed by the Prince of Wales, who walked between the Grand Duke of Hesse and By Rhine and King Ferdinand of Roumania The Duke of Connaught and the Duke of York followed, and behind them were an "endless procession of Princes and Dukes, representatives of German and foreign sovereigns and Courts, naval and military deputations, and officers of the Ducal Court."
The other princes and dukes included Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, Princes Philipp and Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke Ernst Gunther of Schleswig-Holstein, the Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, the Crown Prince of the Hellenes, the Prince of Wied, the Hereditary Prince Reuss, Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, the Hereditary Prince of Leiningen, the Prince of Hohenzollern, Prince Johann Georg of Saxony, Prince Hohenlohe, Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein, the Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and Duke Ulrich of Württemberg.
The chancel inside St. Moritz's, was "converted into a veritable grove of palm trees." The church "was draped in black, with hangings of embroidered ermine." There were green pine sprays and silver frieze, which relieved some of the gloom. A black velarium "was suspended with the arms and initials of the dead Duke embroidered upon it in silver."
Queen Victoria's wreath, made from scarlet geraniums, white stocks, and heliotrope "in the scheme of the national colors," was placed at the head of the coffin. The inscription was pathetic and simple: "From his sorrowing mother." A large wreath of oak leaves was placed at the foot of the coffin with the inscription: "From his three sisters," Helena, Louise, and Beatrice. Empress Friedrich sent a wreath of pine and fir sprays. The Prince and Princess of Wales' wreath was made from lilies with white ribbons.
Duke Alfred's orders and decorations were displayed among the wreaths.
During the service, the Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Meiningen was taken ill. He was "carried to the chaplain's house," near to the church, where he "soon recovered." At the end of the simple funeral service, troops fired a salute from the castle square. The cortege returned to the castle.
The Times (of London) reported that Duke Carl Eduard held a reception in the Throne room at the castle after the funeral. Lunch followed in the Riesensall. Wilhelm II sat between the Duke and the Prince Regent, with the Prince of Wales, Grand Duke Alexis, and the Duke of Connaught on the Duke's other hand. The Crown Prince of Hellenes sat next to the Prince Regent, with "the Duke of York on his right."
Kaiser Wilhelm visited the late Duke's widow, Grand Duchess Marie, in the afternoon before leaving for Wilhelmshohe.
At 10 p.m., the remains of the late Duke were "carried by torchlight, with an escort of Princes," to the family mausoleum in the churchyard.
At the same time as the funeral in Coburg, Queen Victoria, Princesses Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, Princess Henry of Battenberg, Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Princes Alexander, Leopold, and Maurice of Battenberg, and members of the Household attended a special service at Osborne in memory of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Edinburgh.
At the Queen's Command, another Memorial Service for the late Duke was held at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, and was attended by the Princess of Wales, Princess Victoria of Wales, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, the Duchess of York, the Crown Prince of Siam, Princess Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Countess Helena Gleichen and Prince Louis of Battenberg.
Prince and Princess Christian sent a representative to this service as did Princess Henry of Battenberg, the Duchess of Albany, the Duke of Cambridge, who sent his son Rear Admiral Adolphus Fitzgeorge, and Prince and Princess Carl of Denmark.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Kaiser Wilhelm in mourning
August 3, 1916
Kaiser Wilhelm II is in mourning for his brother-in-law, Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, "who has not fallen on the field of battle, but who has succumbed to aneurysm of the heart," at Bonn. The Marquise de Fontenoy reports that Adolf was an "amiable, good looking, but insignificant man, who after having been placed by the kaiser in false position, became the subject of a quarrel extending over several years, that had the effect of irritating the rulers and the people of every non-Prussian state of Germany against the kaiser."
Rather than blame himself for the matter, Wilhelm II "bore a grudge against the unlucky Prince Adolf," who was made to feel it "in many different ways. The kaiser's "underlings" took their cue from him, and Prince Adolf, whose life has not been rosy, has been treated in a contemptuous manner.
Adolf is married to the Kaiser's younger sister, Princess Victoria. This was not a marriage of love, but of convenience, perhaps, as Victoria was engaged to marry the late Prince Alexander of Battenberg. Prince Alexander was in "the blackest books" of Alexander III, when the prince was the ruler of Bulgaria. Prince Bismarck and the future Wilhelm II opposed the match "for fear of giving offense" to the Russian Czar.
After Alexander lost the Bulgarian throne, the marriage became more objectionable to Bismarck. Princess Victoria, "who was of a romantic turn of mind," was determined to marry her prince, who was "one of the handsomest men of his day," and she appealed to her grandmother, Queen Victoria, for help.
The marriage was arranged to take place privately at Windsor, instead of at Berlin, as Wilhelm II, who had recently succeeded his father, remained "unwilling to countenance the union."
A few days before the wedding was to have taken place, the "courts of London and Berlin, and in fact of every monarchical nation in Europe" was started by the news that Prince Alexander "had deliberately jilted" Princess Victoria and had run off with Johanna Loisinger, a Hessian opera singer and actress. Her parents were domestic servants, but she was a "woman of remarkable beauty."
Alexander realized that of the two women, Johanna was the more fascinating, and Victoria was "the least attractive of the kaiser's sisters." He also would have found himself in a more "awkward position" if he had married Victoria.
Prince Bismarck was delighted with the news, but Wilhelm II was "deeply affronted" at the news of one of his sister's being jilted "on the eve of the wedding." He took partial blame for the "slight to which she had been subjected."
To efface the situation, he chose to marry her off as soon as possible, and he chose Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, one of his childhood friends, to marry Victoria.
The wedding took place in the following year. The marriage has remained childless.
Prince Adolf and Princess Victoria were not well off financially, so Kaiser Wilhelm II decided to look after their interests.
When the Kaiser realized that the elderly Prince Waldemar of Lippe was dying, and the next in line was his "hopelessly demented brother," Alexander, he "induced the moribund prince to sign a decree naming Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe as the regent.
After Waldemar's death, Prince Adolf was established by Wilhelm, with the assistance of three Prussian regiments, as the regent of Lippe. This was done despite the protestations of Lippe's legislature and by Prince Ernst of Lippe, next in line after Prince Alexander. Ernst believed he was entitled to be the regent.
With the Kaiser's assistance, Prince and Princess Adolf "secured possession through the kaiser's military forces not only the de facto sovereignty of Lippe, but also of the vast estates and immense wealth of the reigning house of Lippe."
The Kaiser declared that Ernst was disqualified as heir because his grandmother was a member of the lower German nobility, and not of a sovereign house.
Count Ernst died in 1904, and his fight was taken up by his son, Count Leopold, who was seen to be even more objectionable by the Kaiser, because his grandmother was an American girl, a native of Philadelphia. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs.Halbach-Bohlen, who became citizens of the United States, several years after emigrating from Germany. They were members of the fame family as Hans Halbach Bohlen who married the heiress Bertha Krupp.
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| Count Leopold and his wife, Princess Bertha. Leopold became Leopold IV, Prince zur Lippe |
Count Leopold was subjected to the same public affronts from the Kaiser, who forbid the officers of the Prussian regiments stationed in Lippe to bow or salute to the Countesses of Lippe.
Eventually, Leopold's right as regent was brought before a court of arbitration presided by the late King Albert of Saxony. This court ruled in favor of Count Leopold, as Prince Alexander had died in an insane asylum. Leopold, with the assent of the Supreme Court of the empire, was finally able to assume the throne as Prince Leopold IV of Lippe.
Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe was relieved of his position as regent. He was also required to return "all of the immense entailed property of the reigning house of Lippe."
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Kaiser in Sweden
August 3, 1908
Kaiser Wilhelm II and his party arrived today in Stockholm aboard the royal yacht Hohenzollern, according to a Los Angeles Times dispatch. He will pay a short visit to King Gustav V. A "fleet of Swedish warships met the imperial yacht at sea," and this afternoon, the Swedish sovereigns welcomed the imperial party aboard the Swedish royal yacht.
The German Emperor will be the guest of honor at a state dinner tonight.
Kaiser Wilhelm II and his party arrived today in Stockholm aboard the royal yacht Hohenzollern, according to a Los Angeles Times dispatch. He will pay a short visit to King Gustav V. A "fleet of Swedish warships met the imperial yacht at sea," and this afternoon, the Swedish sovereigns welcomed the imperial party aboard the Swedish royal yacht.
The German Emperor will be the guest of honor at a state dinner tonight.
Monday, August 2, 2010
The honeymoon is over ...
for Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel of Sweden. They arrived in Sweden on Sunday night after a six week honeymoon, which included stops in the South Pacific (Bora Bora and Tahiti) and the United States (Colorado, New York and Boston.)
http://www.thelocal.se/28130/20100802/
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Albert and Charlene change wedding date
From the official press release:
The Palace of Monaco announces a change in the date of the wedding of HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco with Ms Charlene Wittstock.
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This is because a meeting of the International Olympic Committee is scheduled in Durban from 5 to 9 July and the couple wished for the presence of the Olympic family by their sides. The Prince also wanted the Princess's first trip abroad to be to her homeland, South Africa.
This is why it was decided to hold the ceremonies in Monaco on 2 and 3 July 2011.
The Palace of Monaco announces a change in the date of the wedding of HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco with Ms Charlene Wittstock.
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This is because a meeting of the International Olympic Committee is scheduled in Durban from 5 to 9 July and the couple wished for the presence of the Olympic family by their sides. The Prince also wanted the Princess's first trip abroad to be to her homeland, South Africa.
This is why it was decided to hold the ceremonies in Monaco on 2 and 3 July 2011.
Duke of Schleswig-Holstein marries against family's wish
August 2, 1898
Ernst Gunther, the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, was married today at the Court Church in Coburg to Princess Dorothea of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The Wedding breakfast took place "in the throne room of the palace," according to the New York Times.
The Duke is the brother of Empress Augusta Viktoria of Germany, and, thus, the Kaiser's brother-in-law.
Ernst Gunther's family has been "actively engaged" in trying to prevent this marriage from taking place.
This is largely due to the "scandal that has been connected with the bride's mother, Princess Louise," who is the eldest daughter of King Leopold II of the Belgians. Louise married Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1875.
The couple's religious differences have also proved difficult. The Duke is a Major in the Prussian Army. He is a Lutheran and his wife is Roman Catholic. According to the Roman Catholic church's canon law, the children of mixed marriages must be brought up in the Catholic church. Due to a Prussian Order in Council, Prussian officers "pledge themselves to bring up their children in any faith save the Evangelical on penalty of being dismissed from the service."
In Germany, the Lutheran Church is known as the Evangelische Kirche.
King Edward expected in Dalmatia
August 2, 1936
King Edward VIII is expected to arrive in Cattaro in Dalmatia next Saturday, according to a special wireless to the New York Times. He will visit King Peter and Peter's mother, Dowager Queen Marie of Yugoslavia. The king is also expected to pay "a short visit" to Prince Regent Paul and his wife, Princess Olga.
King Edward "expects to board his charted yacht at Dubrovnik," and will leave Dalmatia around August 15.
King Edward VIII is expected to arrive in Cattaro in Dalmatia next Saturday, according to a special wireless to the New York Times. He will visit King Peter and Peter's mother, Dowager Queen Marie of Yugoslavia. The king is also expected to pay "a short visit" to Prince Regent Paul and his wife, Princess Olga.
King Edward "expects to board his charted yacht at Dubrovnik," and will leave Dalmatia around August 15.
80th birthday for Princess Anna of Hesse
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August 2, 1916
Princess Anna, the Landgravine of Hesse, recently celebrated her 80th birthday at Frankfurt-on-Main. According to the Marquise de Fontenoy, she is the only member of the Prussian royal family who is a Roman Catholic, and "as such an object of great dislike to the Kaiser.
The Landgravine is an "extremely clever and enormously wealthy princess." Her recent birthday was the object of "all sorts of laudatory articles in the German press. She has been described as a "marvelous intellectual" with a superb "physical victor." These platitudes are in contrast to pre-war press coverage of the war, where the Princess was described as suffering from "senile dementia," and was irresponsible and crazy.
When the Kaiser learned that the princess had converted to the Roman Catholic faith in 1901, he wrote her a "perfectly abominable letter" in which he reproached her for abandoning the Lutheran church. The Kaiser denounced the Catholic faith as "idiotic superstition." "I hate from the bottom of my heart this religion which thou hast embraced and which I shall always persecute."
The Landgravine refused to deny the existence of the latter, and the Kaiser himself "never attempted to disavow these views, knowing full well that if he attempted to do so," the landgravine, who has always "heartily disliked him, would not hesitate to publish, both in Germany and to foreign countries," his indiscreet correspondence.
The Landgravine is a niece of the late Kaiser Wilhelm I, as she is the only daughter of his younger brother, Prince Carl of Prussia. Anna is the sister of the late Prince Friedrich Carl of Prussia, known as the "Red Prince," and an active soldier in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870.
Her eldest surviving son "was up-to-the-war a popular figure in London society." He is blind, "yet celebrated as a musician, as a pianist, and as a composer."
Anne's eldest son, Friedrich Wilhelm, while on a round-the-world trip, "vanished in a mysterious fashion from on board ship," en route from Singapore to Batavia. He left his companions on the deck and was headed to his cabin for a nap, when he "was observed descending the companionway, and was never seen again."
Princess Anne married Landgrave Friedrich in 1853, nearly nine years after the death in childbirth of Friedrich's first wife, Grand Duchess Alexandra of Russia.
Friedrich died in 1884. Prince Alexander Friedrich, the eldest surviving son, is the present head of the House of Hesse. His heir is his brother, Prince Friedrich Karl, who is married to Wilhelm II's youngest sister, Princess Margarete of Prussia.
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New Italian king at his father's bier
August 2, 1900
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy arrived in Monza today. He was met by his mother, Queen Margherita, who fell into his arms weeping," reports the New York Times.
The King knelt before the body of his slain father, and "repeatedly kissed and embraced it." For nearly an hour, the king, his mother, and his wife, Queen Elena, "prayed in the death chamber."
Subsequently, he received members of the Italian cabinet, with the audience lasting for more than an hour.
King Umberto was assassinated by an Italian anarchist, Gaetano Bresci, on July 29. He was killed instantly after being short three times in his chest.
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy arrived in Monza today. He was met by his mother, Queen Margherita, who fell into his arms weeping," reports the New York Times.
The King knelt before the body of his slain father, and "repeatedly kissed and embraced it." For nearly an hour, the king, his mother, and his wife, Queen Elena, "prayed in the death chamber."
Subsequently, he received members of the Italian cabinet, with the audience lasting for more than an hour.
King Umberto was assassinated by an Italian anarchist, Gaetano Bresci, on July 29. He was killed instantly after being short three times in his chest.
Prince of Wales heads to Coburg for funeral
August 2, 1900
The Prince of Wales, the Duke of York and the Duke of Connaught are en route to Coburg to attend the funeral of the late Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
The First Lord of the Treasury, A.J. Balfour, today offered an address of sympathy in the House of Commoners, paying tribute to the "late Duke's ability in naval affairs." Lord Salibury, the Premier, "moved an identical address in the House of Lords, and also eulogized the Duke's work for the English Navy," according to the New York Times.
The late Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria. He died at Schloss Rosenau on July 30. He is survived by his wife, Grand Duchess Marie, and their four daughters, Crown Princess Marie of Roumania, Victoria Melita, Grand Duchess of Hesse and By Rhine, Alexandra, Hereditary Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, and Princess Beatrice. Alfred's only son, Hereditary Prince Alfred, died in unmarried and without issue in February 1899.
The Ducal title has passed to Alfred's nephew, Prince Charles Edward, Duke of Albany, the son of his late brother, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany.
The Prince of Wales, the Duke of York and the Duke of Connaught are en route to Coburg to attend the funeral of the late Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
The First Lord of the Treasury, A.J. Balfour, today offered an address of sympathy in the House of Commoners, paying tribute to the "late Duke's ability in naval affairs." Lord Salibury, the Premier, "moved an identical address in the House of Lords, and also eulogized the Duke's work for the English Navy," according to the New York Times.
The late Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria. He died at Schloss Rosenau on July 30. He is survived by his wife, Grand Duchess Marie, and their four daughters, Crown Princess Marie of Roumania, Victoria Melita, Grand Duchess of Hesse and By Rhine, Alexandra, Hereditary Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, and Princess Beatrice. Alfred's only son, Hereditary Prince Alfred, died in unmarried and without issue in February 1899.
The Ducal title has passed to Alfred's nephew, Prince Charles Edward, Duke of Albany, the son of his late brother, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany.
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