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Albert, Prince Consort: Heir presumptive Younger brother 29 July 1844 Elder brother acceded to throne 14 December 1861 Died Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, son Albert Edward, Prince of Wales: Nephew 14 December 1861 Father died 19 April 1863 Renounced succession rights Prince Alfred, brother Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh: 19 April 1863
Ernest I (German: Ernst Anton Karl Ludwig; 2 January 1784 – 29 January 1844) served as the last sovereign duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (as Ernest III) from 1806 to 1826 and the first sovereign duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1826 to 1844. He was the father of Prince Albert, who was the husband of Queen Victoria.
2nd son of Albert: Born a Prince of the United Kingdom. Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 1893–1900 Arthur The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn 1850 1942 3rd son of Albert: Born a Prince of the United Kingdom. Leopold The Duke of Albany 1853 1884 4th son of Albert: Born a Prince of the United Kingdom. Peter The Prince Royal later, King Pedro V ...
Ernest I's second son, Prince Albert (1819–1861), married his first cousin Queen Victoria in 1840 (Victoria's mother was a sister of Ernest I). Prince Albert thus is the progenitor of the United Kingdom's current royal family, called the House of Windsor since 1917. [4]
Stillborn son 1782 1782 – Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: 2 January 1784, in Coburg 29 January 1844, in Gotha 60 years Married on 31 July 1817 to Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1800–1831) the father of Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria (Ernest and Louise divorced in 1826). Ferdinand: 28 March 1785, in Coburg
Prince Alfred was born on 6 August 1844 at Windsor Castle to the reigning British monarch, Queen Victoria, and her husband, Prince Albert, the second son of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Nicknamed Affie, he was second in the line of succession to the British throne behind his elder brother, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales.
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] His first cousin and future wife, Victoria , had been born earlier in the same year with the assistance of the same midwife, Charlotte von Siebold ...
In 1893, his granduncle, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the elder brother of his paternal grandfather, died without legitimate heirs.Being ineligible under Saxe-Coburg-Gotha house law to succeed to the duchy due to his status as the heir apparent to an existing throne, [1] the Prince of Wales had previously renounced his claim to the ducal throne.