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An Uncommon Woman: The Empress Frederick, Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of the Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm. New York: Simon and Schuster Inc. ISBN 0-684-84216-5. Weintraub, Stanley (1997). Uncrowned King: The Life of Prince Albert. London: John Murray Inc. ISBN 0-7195-5756-9. Zeepvat, Charlotte (July 2000).
Albert (left) with his elder brother, Ernest, and mother, Louise, shortly before her exile from court Prince Albert was born on 26 August 1819 at Schloss Rosenau, near Coburg, Germany, the second son of Ernest III, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and his first wife, Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. [2]
Queen Victoria's immediate family belonged to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; her deceased husband, Prince Albert, was the younger brother of the childless Duke Ernest II. [9] Ernest governed the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, one of the states in the federalised German Empire. [10]
Gull died before Albert Victor, and so could not have known about Albert Victor's death. [12] All three doctors who were attending Albert Victor at his death in 1892 concurred that he had died of pneumonia, and given the timescale of syphilitic disease progression, it is highly improbable that Albert Victor had syphilis. The first symptoms of ...
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The suggestion was widely dismissed, as Prince Albert Victor had strong alibis for the murders, and it is unlikely that he suffered from syphilis. [104] Stowell later denied implying that Prince Albert Victor was the Ripper [ 105 ] but efforts to investigate his claims further were hampered, as Stowell was elderly, and he died from natural ...
As a son of Prince Albert, he also held the titles of Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duke of Saxony. He was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester on 8 December 1841, Earl of Dublin on 17 January 1850, [4] [5] [b] a Knight of the Garter on 9 November 1858, and a Knight of the Thistle on 24 May 1867. [4]
Albert, who cofounded Christian Death and drummed in Bad Religion, is perhaps best known for his memoir, 'Wrecking Crew,' about baseball and addiction. John Albert, punk pioneer and chronicler of ...