Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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Paternal Family Tree: Wettin
Maternal Family Tree: Gersenda II Sabran Countess Provence 1180-1242
1840 Wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
1858 Appointment of Garter Knights
1858 Marriage of the future King Frederick III King Prussia and Victoria Saxe Coburg Gotha
1863 Marriage of the future King Edward VII and Alexandra
1874 Wedding of Prince Alfred and Grand Duchess Maria of Russia
On 10th February 1840 [his father] Prince Albert Saxe Coburg Gotha [aged 20] and [his mother] Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom [aged 20] were married by Archbishop Charles Longley [aged 45] at Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Edward Augustus Hanover 1st Duke Kent and Strathearn and [his grandmother] Marie Luise Victoria Saxe Coburg Gotha Duchess Kent and Strathearn [aged 53]. He the son of Ernest Saxe Coburg Gotha I Duke Saxe Coburg Gotha [aged 56] and Duchess Louise Dorothea of Saxe Coburg Altenburg. They were first cousins. She a granddaughter of King George III of Great Britain and Ireland.
On 9th November 1841 King Edward VII of the United Kingdom was born to [his father] Prince Albert Saxe Coburg Gotha [aged 22] and [his mother] Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom [aged 22]. Coefficient of inbreeding 7.25%.
Around 1846. Franz Xaver Winterhalter [aged 40]. Portrait of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales [aged 4].
On 8th October 1847 Robert Gordon [aged 56] died by choking on a fish bone. [his father] Prince Albert Saxe Coburg Gotha [aged 28] bought Balmoral estate from his trustees a year later as a gift for his wife [his mother] Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom [aged 28].
In 1858 [his mother] Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom [aged 38] appointed five Knights of the Garter:
720th [his future brother-in-law] Frederick III King Prussia [aged 26].
721st Arthur Wellesley 2nd Duke Wellington [aged 50].
722nd William Cavendish 7th Duke Devonshire [aged 49].
723rd King Pedro V of Portugal [aged 20].
724th The Prince of Wales [aged 16].
In 1858 George Phipps 2nd Marquess Normanby [aged 38] was appointed Governor of Nova Scotia. During his term he hosted King Edward VII of the United Kingdom [aged 16] and [his brother] Prince Alfred Windsor [aged 13] at Government House.
On 25th January 1858 [his brother-in-law] Frederick III King Prussia [aged 26] and [his sister] Victoria Empress Germany Queen Consort Prussia [aged 17] were married in the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. She the daughter of [his father] Prince Albert Saxe Coburg Gotha [aged 38] and [his mother] Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom [aged 38]. He the son of William I King Prussia [aged 60]. They were third cousins.
The Diary of George Price Boyce 1858. 8th February 1858. February 8. On the road stopped to see the [his sister] Princess Royal [aged 17] accompanied by her husband, the [his brother-in-law] Prince Frederick of Prussia [aged 26], [his father] Prince Albert [aged 38] and the Prince of Wales [aged 16] go by on her departure from England. She was flushed, and her eyes swollen and red and she had evidently been crying. The snow, the first this year, was falling and driving into her face. Yet she kept her veil up and bowed to the throng who lined the roads.
On 28th September 1858 James Brudenell 7th Earl Cardigan [aged 60] and Adeline Horsey Countess Cardigan [aged 33] were married; she had been his mistress since 1857. She by marriage Countess Cardigan. The marriage something of a scandal since James Brudenell 7th Earl Cardigan had left his first wife; [his mother] Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom [aged 39] refused to have Adeline at court. See My Recollections by Adeline Horsey. The difference in their ages was 27 years. He the son of Robert Brudenell 6th Earl Cardigan and Penelope Cooke Countess Cardigan.
On 14th December 1861 [his father] Prince Albert Saxe Coburg Gotha [aged 42] died at Windsor Castle [Map]. His wife, [his mother] Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom [aged 42] never recovered from his death spending, more or less, the remainder of her life in mourning.
The Times. 24th December 1861. Yesterday, with little of the pomp and pageantry of a State ceremonial, but with every outward mark of respect, and with all the solemnity which befitted his high station and his public virties, the [his father] mortal remains of the husband [deceased] of our [his mother] Queen [aged 42] were interred in the last resting-place of England's Sovereigns-the Chapel Royal of St. George's, Windsor [Map]. By the express desire of his Royal Highness the funeral was of the plainest and most private character; but in the Chapel, to do honour to his obsequies, were assembled all the chiefest men of the State, and throughout England, by every sign of sorrow and imourning, the nation manifested its sense of the loss wlhich it has sustaiined. Windsor itself wore an aspect of the most profound gloom. Every shop was closed and every blind drawn down. The streets were silent and almost deserted, and all wvho appeared abroad were dressed in the deepest mourning. The great bell of Windsor Castle [Map] clanged out: its doleful sound at intervals from an early hour, and minute bells were tolled also at St. John's Church. At the parish church of Cleover and at St. John's there were services in the morning and: aternoon, and the day was observed throughout the Royal borough in the strictest manner. The weather was in character with the occasion, a chill, damp air, with a dull leaden sky above, increased the gloom which hung over all. There were but few visitors in the town, for the procession did not pass beyond the immediate precincts of the Chapel and Castle, and none were admitted except those connected with the Castle andi their friends. At 11 o'clock a strong force of the A division took possession of the avenues leading to the Chapel Royal, and from that time only the guests specially invited and those who were to take part in the ceremonial were allowed to pass. Shortly afterwards a of honour of the Grenadier Guards, of which regiment his Royal Highness was Colonel, with the colonrs of the regiment shrouded in crape, marched in and took up its position before the principal entrance to the Chapel Royal. Another guard of honour from the same regiment was also on duty in the Quadrangle at the entrance to the State apartments. They were speedily followed by a squadron of the 2nd Life Guards dismounted, and by two companies of the Fusileer Guards, who were drawn uip in single file along each side of the road by which the procession was to pass, from the Norman gateway to the Chapel door. The officers wore the deepest military mourning-scarves, sword-knots, and rosettes of crape. In the Rome Park was stationed a troop of Horse Artillery, which commenced firing minute guns at the end of the Long Walk, advancing slowly until it reached the Castle gates just at the close of the ceremony. The Ministers, the officers of the Queen's Household, and other distinguished personages who had been honoured with an invitation to attend the ceremonial, reached Windsor a special train from Paddington. They were met by carriages provided for them at the station, and began to arrive at the Chapel Royal soon after 11 o'clock. The Earl of Derby [aged 62], the Archbishop of Canterbury [aged 81], Earl Russell [aged 69], and the Duke of Buccleuch were among the first to make their appearance, and as they alighted at the door of the Chapel they were received by the proper officials and conducted to the seats appointed for them in the Choir. In the Great Quadrangle were drawn up the hearse and the mourning coaches, and, all the preparations having been completed within the Castle, the procession began to be formed shortly before 12 o'clock. It had been originally intended that it should leave the Castle by the St. George's gate, and, proceeding down Castle-hill, approach the Chapel through Henry VII.'s gateway, but at a late hour this arrangement was changed, and the shorter route by the Norman gatewvay was chosen.
The crowd which had gradually collected at the foot of Castle-hill, owing to this change, saw nothing of the procession but the empty carriages as they returned to the Castle after setting down at the Chapel. The few spectators who were fortunate enough to gain admission to the Lower Ward stood in a narrow fringe along the edge of the flags in front of the houses of the Poor Knights, and their presence was the only exception to the strict privacy of the ceremonial. The Prince of Wales [aged 20] and the other Royal mourners assembled in the Oak Room, but did not form part of the procession. They were conveyed to the Chapel in private carriages before the coffin was placed in the hearse, passing through St. George's gatewayinto the Lower Ward. In the first carriage were the Prince of Wales, [his brother] Prince Arthur [aged 11], and the Duke of Saxe Coburg [aged 8]. The Crown Prince of Prussia [aged 30], the Duke of Brabant [aged 26], and the Count of Flanders [aged 24] followed in the next; and in the others were the Duke de Nemours [aged 47], Prince Louis of Hesse [aged 24], Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar [aged 38], and the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, with the gentlemen of their respective suites. Scarcely had they alighted at the door of Wolsey's Chapel, from which they were conducted through the Chapter Room to the door of the Chapel Royal to be in readiness to meet the coffin, when the first minute gun fired in tlhe distance, and the rattle of the troops reversing arms announced that the procession had started, and exactly at 12 o'clock the first mourning coach moved from under the Norman gateway. First came nine mourning coaches, each drawn by four horses, conveying the Physicians, Equerries, and other members of the household of the late Prince. In the last were the Lord Steward [aged 63] (Earl St. Germans), the Lord Chamberlain [aged 56] (Viscount Sidney), and the Master of the Horse [aged 57] (the Marquis of Ailesbury). The carriages and trappings were of the plainest description; the horses had black velvet housings and feathers, but on the carriages there, were no feathers or ornaments of any kind. The mourning coaches were followed by one of the Queen's carriages, drawn by six horses, and attended by servants in State liveries, in which was the Groom of the Stole [aged 26], Earl Spencer, carrying the crown, and a Lord of the Bedchamber, Lord George Lennox, carrying the baton, sword, and hat of his late Royal Highness. Next escorted by a troop of the 2nd Life Guards, came the hearse, drawn by six black horses, which, like the carriages, was quite plain and unornamented. On the housings of the horses and on the sides of the hearse were emblazoned the scutcheons of Her Majesty and of the Prince, each surmounted by a, crown, the Prince's arms being in black and Her Majesty's in white. The procession was closed by four State carriages.
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On 10th March 1863 King Edward VII of the United Kingdom [aged 21] and Alexandra of Denmark Queen Consort England [aged 18] were married at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle [Map]. She the daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark [aged 44] and Queen Louise Hesse-Kassel of Denmark [aged 45]. He the son of Prince Albert Saxe Coburg Gotha and Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom [aged 43]. They were third cousin once removed. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland.
10th March 1863. William Powell Frith [aged 44]. Marriage of the future King Edward VII and Alexandra. The artist has depicted the moment when the Prince [aged 21] is about to place the ring on the [his wife] Princess' [aged 18] finger. The two little boys dressed in tartan are [his brother] Prince Leopold [aged 9] and Prince Arthur [aged 12], Queen Victoria's youngest sons. At the top right of the painting the Queen [aged 43] herself looks down on the ceremony.
On 30th March 1863 [his brother-in-law] George I King Greece [aged 17] succeeded I King Greece.
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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On 8th January 1864 [his son] Prince Albert Victor "Eddy" Windsor was born to King Edward VII of the United Kingdom [aged 22] and [his wife] Alexandra of Denmark Queen Consort England [aged 19] at Frogmore House, Windsor.
After 11th June 1864 Susan Charlotte Catherine Pelham-Clinton [aged 25] became the mistress of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom [aged 22]. She is believed by some to have had a child with the Prince although evidence is scant.
On 3rd June 1865 [his son] King George V of the United Kingdom was born to King Edward VII of the United Kingdom [aged 23] and [his wife] Alexandra of Denmark Queen Consort England [aged 20] at Marlborough House. He married 6th July 1893 his second cousin once removed Victoria Mary Teck Queen Consort England and had issue.
On 24th May 1866 [his brother] Prince Alfred Windsor [aged 21] was created 1st Duke Edinburgh.
On 20th February 1867 [his daughter] Louise Windsor Duchess Fife was born to King Edward VII of the United Kingdom [aged 25] and [his wife] Alexandra of Denmark Queen Consort England [aged 22] at Marlborough House. She married 27th July 1889 her half third cousin Alexander Duff 1st Duke Fife, son of James Duff 5th Earl Fife and Agnes Georgiana Elizabeth Hay Countess Fife, and had issue.
On 15th October 1867 [his brother-in-law] George I King Greece [aged 21] and Olga Constantinovna Holstein Gottorp Romanov Queen Consort Greece [aged 16] were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Greece. He the son of [his father-in-law] King Christian IX of Denmark [aged 49] and [his mother-in-law] Queen Louise Hesse-Kassel of Denmark [aged 50]. They were fifth cousin once removed. He a great x 3 grandson of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland.
On 6th July 1868 [his daughter] Princess Victoria Windsor was born to King Edward VII of the United Kingdom [aged 26] and [his wife] Alexandra of Denmark Queen Consort England [aged 23] at Marlborough House.
Adeline Horsey Recollections. As I was always fond of yachting I went for long cruises, usually accompanied by dear Maria Hill. We visited Trouville and Deauville, and in 1871, when I was at Trouville, the King, then Prince of Wales [aged 27], came to tea with me on board the Sea Horse.
His Majesty honoured me with constant visits to my houses in town, Newmarket, and Cowes for many years, and I cannot write too enthusiastically about the pleasure I experienced from his agreeable visits and his kind friendship.
The King was a delightful companion, and he was most appreciative of my efforts to entertain him. We often discussed Art together, and those who say that a taste for High Art can only be acquired are quite wrong, for the King is a born artist.
On 28th February 1869 Violet Caroline Mordaunt Marchioness Bath was born illegitimately to Lowry Cole 4th Earl Enniskillen [aged 23] and Harriet Moncreiffe Lady Mordaunt [aged 21]. Her paternity is speculative since she, Harriet, was married to Charles Mordaunt 10th Baronet [aged 32] at the time of the birth. At the time of conception he had been away on an extended trip to Norway. The following year he sued for divorce threatening to bring the Prince of Wales [aged 27] as a co-respondent being, allegedly, one of her many lovers. The divorce was denied as Lady Mordaunt was judged to be insane, but was finally granted in 1875 when Cole did not contest the claim that he was the father.
On 28th July 1869 [his brother-in-law] Frederick VIII King of Denmark [aged 26] and Louise of Sweden Queen Consort Denmark [aged 17] were married. He the son of [his father-in-law] King Christian IX of Denmark [aged 51] and [his mother-in-law] Queen Louise Hesse-Kassel of Denmark [aged 51].
On 26th November 1869 [his daughter] Maud Windsor Queen Consort Norway was born to King Edward VII of the United Kingdom [aged 28] and [his wife] Alexandra of Denmark Queen Consort England [aged 24] at Marlborough House. She married 1896 her first cousin Haakon VII King Norway, son of Frederick VIII King of Denmark and Louise of Sweden Queen Consort Denmark, and had issue.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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1871. Bassano Ltd. Photograph of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom [aged 29].
On 6th April 1871 [his daughter] Alexander John Windsor was born to King Edward VII of the United Kingdom [aged 29] and [his wife] Alexandra of Denmark Queen Consort England [aged 26] at Sandringham House, Norfolk. She died aged less than one years old.
On 7th April 1871 [his daughter] Alexander John Windsor died at Sandringham House, Norfolk.
On 21st May 1871 [his brother-in-law] John Campbell 9th Duke Argyll [aged 25] and [his sister] Princess Louise Caroline Alberta Windsor Duchess Argyll [aged 23] were married. She the daughter of [his father] Prince Albert Saxe Coburg Gotha and [his mother] Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom [aged 51]. He the son of George Douglas Campbell 8th Duke Argyll [aged 48] and Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower Duchess Argyll.
On 8th August 1871 Olga de Meyer was born at 14 William Street Lowndes Square. Possibly a daughter of the Prince of Wales [aged 29].
On 1st December 1871 George Philip Cecil Arthur Stanhope 7th Earl Chesterfield [aged 40] died of typhoid unmarried. His third cousin George [aged 49] succeeded 8th Earl Chesterfield, 8th Baron Stanhope of Shelford in Nottinghamshire. He had been staying at Londesborough Lodge Scarborough with the Prince of Wales [aged 30] who also contracted typhoid but survived.
Around 1872 Olivia Taylour [aged 47] unsuccessfully attempted, allegedly, to become the mistress of [his father] Prince Albert Saxe Coburg Gotha. Around the same time her daughter Mary "Patsy" Fitzpatrick [aged 16], aged sixteen, became the mistress of his son King Edward VII of the United Kingdom [aged 30]. She, Patsy, was married off to William Cornwallis-West [aged 36].
Adeline Horsey Recollections. My hunting recollections would not be complete without including among them the occasion in '73 when I went to a meet at Belvoir [Map], and met his Majesty King Edward VII [aged 31], then Prince of Wales, who was staying at the Castle. I was riding my famous horse "Dandy", who won the Billesdon Coplow Stakes at Croxton Park, and that morning I was much exercised in my mind about a proposal of marriage I had just received from Disraeli [aged 68]. My uncle Admiral Rous [aged 77], had said to me, "My dear, you can't marry that d---d old Jew", but I had known Disraeli all my life, and I liked him very well. He had, however, one drawback so far as I was concerned, and that was his breath - the ill odour of politics perhaps! In ancient Rome a wife could divorce her husband if his breath were unpleasant, and had Dizzy lived in those days his wife would have been able to divorce him without any difficulty. I was wondering whether I could possibly put up with this unfortunate attribute in a great man, when I met the King, who was graciously pleased to ride with me. In the course of our conversation I told him about Disraeli's proposal and asked him whether he would advise me to accept it, but the King said he did not think the marriage would be a very happy one.
I lunched with the Royal party at Belvoir Castle [Map], and as I rode home afterwards I felt well pleased that I had decided not to become the wife of a politician!
On 23rd January 1874 [his brother] Prince Alfred Windsor [aged 29] and [his sister-in-law] Maria Holstein Gottorp Romanov [aged 20] were married. He the son of [his father] Prince Albert Saxe Coburg Gotha and [his mother] Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom [aged 54]. They were third cousin once removed.
The Times. 2nd February 1874. THE MARRIAGE FESTIVITIES IN RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURIG. Jan 31 Yesterday the [his brother] Duke [aged 29] and [his sister-in-law] Duchess of Edinburgh [aged 20], the Prince [aged 32] and [his wife] Princess of Wales [aged 29], and Prince Arthur [aged 23] were present with all the Imperial family at the ball given by the Cesarewvitch. The Prince of Wales wore the uniform of the Norfolk Militia and Prince Arthur that of the Rifle Brigade. This evening a grand dinner, to which 400 guests are invited, will be given by the British Ambassador to the Crown Prince and Princess of Germany and Prince Arthur. Later on in the evening all the English Princes will go to the ball given at the Hall of the Nobles at 9:30.
On 24th May 1874 [his brother] Prince Arthur Windsor 1st Duke Connaught and Strathearn [aged 24] was created 1st Duke Connaught and Strathearn. [his future sister-in-law] Luise Margarete Hohenzollern Duchess Connaught [aged 13] by marriage Duchess Connaught and Strathearn.
Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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On 12th December 1874 the jewels of Georgina Moncrieffe Countess Dudley [aged 28] were stolen at Paddington Station. The earl offered a £1,000 reward and anonymity to the thief if the jewels should be returned but they were never seen again. The Times reported:
The robbery of Lady Dudley's jewel-case outside the Great Western Railway Station, at Paddington, on Saturday evening, just previous to the starting of the Worcester express leaving London at 6.30pm, was effected under circumstances which leave little doubt that the thief was a practised hand, and had laid his plans with an ingenuity worthy of a better purpose. Lord [aged 57] and Lady Dudley arrived at the railway station in his lordship's brougham at 6.20pm, and were immediately followed by a four-wheeled cab conveying two of the Countess' waiting women, each in charge of a ponderous jewel box and other articles of a lady's toilette. Scott, one of the women, was the first who alighted, and having deposited upon the pavement the box under her care, while turning round to assist her companion, for better security and with commendable caution placed one foot upon the jewel-case. In an unlucky instant her attention was diverted by the other maid, and she removed her foot from the box. Her companion having alighted, Scott stooped to recover the box, when, to her great consternation, she found it had been removed. An instant search was made by the Earl's servants and by the railway officials in attendance, but no tidings could be gained of it. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales [aged 33] arrived at this moment to travel by the same train in a 'slip carriage' as far as Slough on his way to Windsor, and a desire on the part of the railway authorities to despatch the train punctually led to some little confusion, amid which the express left the station without any intelligence of the missing box having been obtained. The Worcester express made its first stoppage at Reading. On arriving there Lord Dudley alighted, and explaining to the station agent the circumstances, requited that every compartment in the train should be searched, in the hope that the missing box might have been separated from his other luggage. The search proving fruitless, his Lordship decided upon returning to London at once, which he did, accompanied by the lady's maid, in a special train as soon as the express had left Reading. On reaching Paddington, he drove direct to his jewellers, Messrs Hunt and Roskell, of New Bond Street, whither the police from Scotland Yard were immediately summoned. Under their advice a detailed list of the lost jewels was prepared and circulated among the leading metropolitan and local pawnbrokers. Among the principal articles lost may be mentioned a pearl and diamond bracelet, presented by the inhabitants of Dudley on the occasion of the marriage of the Earl and Countess; a diamond collette necklace, a diamond cross, a sapphire and diamond bracelet, a diamond necklace with pearl and diamond drops, a pair of very fine pearl earrings, two pairs of diamond earrings, five diamond stars, three diamond butterflies, a cat's-eye pendant and earrings, a diamond padlock, a ruby and diamond pendant, an emerald and diamond watch with enamelled chain, a turquoise and ruby watch, an enamelled and diamond watch, and a crystal watch. We are informed on undoubted authority that the amount of loss of Lady Dudley's jewellery is not half what it was first stated to be.
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Henry Chaplin A Memoir: 2 Family and Social Life Part II. The Prince of Wales [aged 34] was admitted to the secret a very few days after his departure from Goodwood, and on August 2 [1876] we find him writing to Mr. Chaplin [aged 35]:
Let me offer you my most sincere congratulations on your engagement to one of the most charming young ladies whom I know and whom I have had the advantage of knowing ever since her childhood. I certainly did think you rather reticent at Goodwood when I hinted at the subject, as I had the Duke of Sutherland's permission to do so, but I now quite understand the reason, and you were, of course, undoubtedly right to follow the wishes of the young lady. Hoping that we may meet at Dunrobin in September, from Yours most sincerely,
ALBERT EDWARD.
On 18th February 1878 a double Royal Wedding took place at Berlin. The brides were second-cousins.
Bernhard Saxe Meiningen III Duke Saxe Meiningen [aged 26] and [his niece] Charlotte Hohenzollern [aged 17] were married. She the daughter of Frederick III King Prussia [aged 46] and Victoria Empress Germany Queen Consort Prussia [aged 37]. He the son of Georg II Duke of Saxe Meiningen [aged 51]. They were third cousin twice removed. She a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
Frederick Augustus II Grand Duke of Oldenburg [aged 25] and Elisabeth Anna Hohenzollern [aged 21] were married. They were fifth cousins.
The event was attended by King Leopold II of Belgium [aged 42] and his wife Marie Henriette of Austria, and the Prince of Wales [aged 36] and his brother Prince Arthur Windsor 1st Duke Connaught and Strathearn [aged 27].
On 22nd December 1878 Ernest Augustus Hanover 3rd Duke Cumberland and Teviotdale [aged 33] and [his sister-in-law] Thyra Glücksburg Duchess Cumberland and Teviotdale [aged 25] were married. She by marriage Duchess Cumberland and Teviotdale. She the daughter of [his father-in-law] King Christian IX of Denmark [aged 60] and [his mother-in-law] Queen Louise Hesse-Kassel of Denmark [aged 61]. He the son of George V King Hanover and Marie Saxe Altenburg Queen Consort Hanover. They were fourth cousins. He a great grandson of King George III of Great Britain and Ireland. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland.
On 13th March 1879 [his brother] Prince Arthur Windsor 1st Duke Connaught and Strathearn [aged 28] and [his sister-in-law] Luise Margarete Hohenzollern Duchess Connaught [aged 18] were married at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle [Map]. He the son of [his father] Prince Albert Saxe Coburg Gotha and [his mother] Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom [aged 59]. They were third cousin once removed.
Life's Ebb And Flow Chapter IV. [30th April 1881]. And so the tale unfolds. Our [Francis Greville 5th Earl Warwick 5th Earl Brooke [aged 28] and Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Maynard Countess Warwick [aged 19]] marriage took place in the Henry VII Chapel in Westminster Abbey, and the newspapers of the day made much of the "most brilliant wedding of a dozen seasons." I remember my surprise as I drove from our house in Carlton Gardens to the Abbey to find the way lined with interested crowds.
Among the guests were the Prince [aged 39] and [his wife] Princess of Wales [aged 36], Prince and Princess Christian, the [his brother] Duke [aged 30] and [his sister-in-law] Duchess of Connaught [aged 20], Princess Louise [aged 33] (Marchioness of Lorne), Princess Mary Adelaide [aged 47] (Duchess of Teck) and the Duke of Teck (parents of Queen Mary), with Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany [aged 28], as my husband's best man. The crush filled the Abbey from the choir to the door.
My twelve bridesmaids were all girl friends and relatives. They were: Blanche Maynard [aged 17], my sister (now Lady Algernon Gordon-Lennox [aged 33]), Lady Eva Greville [aged 21], my husband's only sister, my stepsisters, Millicent [aged 13], Sybil [aged 9], and Angela St. Clair Erskine [aged 4] (later Duchess of Sutherland, Countess of Westmorland, and Lady A. Forbes), Countess Feodore Gleichen [aged 19] (later a renowned sculptor), Lady Florence Bridgman [aged 22] (the present Countess of Harewood and mother of Viscount Lascelles [aged 34]), Miss Wombwell [aged 19] (Countess of Dartrey), Miss Mills, the first Lord Hillingdon's daughter, Miss Violet Lindsay [aged 25] (now Violet, Duchess of Rutland), and Miss Ethel Milner [aged 30] (later Countess of Durham).
On 24th May 1881 [his brother] Leopold Saxe Coburg Gotha 1st Duke Albany [aged 28] was created 1st Duke Albany.
On 27th April 1882 [his brother] Leopold Saxe Coburg Gotha 1st Duke Albany [aged 29] and [his sister-in-law] Helena Waldeck Duchess Albany were married at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle [Map]. She by marriage Duchess Albany. He the son of [his father] Prince Albert Saxe Coburg Gotha and [his mother] Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom [aged 62].
On 28th March 1884 [his brother] Leopold Saxe Coburg Gotha 1st Duke Albany [aged 30] died at the Villa Nevada, Cannes.
The current Putney Bridge [Map] was designed by Joseph Bazalgette [aged 67]. It was opened by the King Edward VII of the United Kingdom [aged 44] and [his wife] Princess Alexandra [aged 41] on 29th May 1886.
On 9th March 1888 William I King Prussia [aged 90] died. His son [his brother-in-law] Frederick [aged 56] succeeded III Emperor aka Kaiser, III King Prussia. [his sister] Victoria Empress Germany Queen Consort Prussia [aged 47] by marriage Empress aka Kaiser, Queen Prussia.
On 27th July 1889 [his son-in-law] Alexander Duff 1st Duke Fife [aged 39] and Louise Windsor Duchess Fife [aged 22] were married. She the daughter of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom [aged 47] and Alexandra of Denmark Queen Consort England [aged 44]. He the son of James Duff 5th Earl Fife and Agnes Georgiana Elizabeth Hay Countess Fife. They were half third cousins. He a great grandson of King William IV of the United Kingdom.
On 29th April 1890 Hermit [aged 26] died at Blankney Hall. His skeleton was given to the Royal College of Vetinary Surgeons. A hoof was presented to the Prince of Wales who had it fashioned into an ink-stand, writing:
Marlborough House,
July 27/90.
My Dear Harry [aged 49] — How kind of you to have sent me the hoof of dear old! so prettily mounted, which I shall always greatly value and constantly use as an inkstand.
I am also very much touched by the kind expressions in your letter wishing me good luck with my racehorses. Though I can never expect to have the good fortune which attended the Dukes of Portland and Westminster, still I hope with patience to win one or more of the classic races with a horse bred by myself. I sincerely hope you may yet be able to come to Goodwood for a part of the time, at any rate.
Thanking you again for your kind remembrance of me and giving me so interesting a souvenir of your "best friend"
From yours very sincerely,
Albert Edward [aged 48].
P.S.—I shall always take the shoe about with me.
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On 12th December 1890 Joseph Boehm [aged 56] died suddenly at his home 76 Fulham Road. [his sister] Princess Louise Caroline Alberta Windsor Duchess Argyll [aged 42], his pupil, was either present, leading to speculation in the press about their relationship, or found his body shortly after his death. His son Edgar [aged 21] succeeded 2nd Baronet Boehm of Wetherby Gardens in Kensington.
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Before 9th August 1891 Lieutenant Harry Tyrwhitt aka Tyrwhitt-Wilson [aged 37] was appointed Equerry to the Prince of Wales [aged 49].
Life's Ebb And Flow Chapter IV. [Around September 1891]. In the autumn of 1891 the Duke and Duchess of Teck, with Princess May, were our guests at Easton. I remember that among the party were Lord Sandwich, Lord Richard Nevill, Count Albert Mensdorff, the Hon. Sidney Greville [aged 24] (my husband's brother, who was then equerry to the Prince of Wales [aged 49]), my sister-in-law, Lady Eva Greville [aged 31], the lifelong friend and companion of Queen Mary, Lord Chesterfield, Lord and Lady Alington, Lord Chelsea, Lord and Lady Bradford, Colonel Brabazon, Lady Dorothy Nevill, Colonel Stanley Clarke, and Lady Sophia Macnamara, who was in waiting on the Duchess of Teck.
At that house party the Prince of Wales gave his consent to the engagement of his son, Prince Eddy [aged 27], Duke of Clarence and Avondale, to Princess May. The prophecy of the Duchess of Teck that such an alliance would be popular was more than justified, but, to the great sorrow of all, the young prince died shortly after.
In her bereavement Princess May showed those gifts of character which have always distinguished her attitude to life and its responsibilities, and when some two years later sorrow was merged in the happiness of union with Prince George [aged 26], now our King, all the world rejoiced with her.
On 14th January 1892 [his son] Prince Albert Victor "Eddy" Windsor [aged 28] died of pneumonia at Sandringham House, Norfolk.
On 6th July 1893 King George V of the United Kingdom [aged 28] and Victoria Mary Teck Queen Consort England [aged 26] were married at Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. She by marriage Duchess York. He the son of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom [aged 51] and Alexandra of Denmark Queen Consort England [aged 48]. They were second cousin once removed. She a great granddaughter of King George III of Great Britain and Ireland.
The photograph by from left to right:
Alexandra Windsor Princess [aged 14]
Princess Alice of Battenburg [aged 8]
Victoria Eugénie Mountbatten Queen Consort Spain [aged 5]
Beatrice Windsor Duchess Galliera [aged 9]
King George V of the United Kingdom
Margaret "Daisy" Windsor [aged 11]
Victoria Mary Teck Queen Consort England
Maud Windsor Queen Consort Norway [aged 23]
Victoria Patricia "Patsy" Windsor [aged 7]
Princess Victoria Windsor [aged 25]
Helena Victoria Oldenburg [aged 23]
Victoria Melita Windsor [aged 16]
In 1896 [his son-in-law] Haakon VII King Norway [aged 23] and Maud Windsor Queen Consort Norway [aged 26] were married. She the daughter of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom [aged 54] and Alexandra of Denmark Queen Consort England [aged 51]. He the son of Frederick VIII King of Denmark [aged 52] and Louise of Sweden Queen Consort Denmark [aged 44]. They were first cousins. He a great x 4 grandson of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland.
Around 1898 Alice Frederica Edmonstone aka Keppel [aged 29] became the mistress of King Edward VII [aged 56]. She remained his mistress for the remainder of his life.
On 24th April 1900 George Douglas Campbell 8th Duke Argyll [aged 76] died. His son [his brother-in-law] John [aged 54] succeeded 9th Duke Argyll, 6th Baron Hamilton of Hameldon in Leicestershire. [his sister] Princess Louise Caroline Alberta Windsor Duchess Argyll [aged 52] by marriage Duchess Argyll.
On 24th May 1900 Sonia Rosemary Keppel was born to George Keppel [aged 34] and Alice Frederica Edmonstone aka Keppel [aged 32]. Given that she was at the time the mistress of King Edward VII [aged 58] there is some uncertainty as to whether George Keppel was her father. She married (1) 16th November 1920 Roland Cubitt 3rd Baron Ashcombe, son of Henry Cubitt 2nd Baron Ashcombe and Maud Marianne Calvert, and had issue.
On 30th July 1900 [his brother] Prince Alfred Windsor [aged 55] died. Duke Edinburgh extinct.
1901. Luke Fildes [aged 57]. Coronation Portrait of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom [aged 59].
On 22nd January 1901 [his mother] Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom [aged 81] died at Osborne House, Isle of Wight. Her son Edward [aged 59] succeeded VII King of the United Kingdom.
Around 4th February 1901 Wilfred William Ashley 1st Baron Mount Temple [aged 33] and Amalia Mary Maud Cassel [aged 21] were married. The Prince of Wales [aged 59] attended some eighteen days before he acceeded the throne.
In July 1901 Bishop Charles Gore [aged 48] was appointed Chaplain in Ordinary to King Edward VII of the United Kingdom [aged 59].
On 5th August 1901 [his sister] Victoria Empress Germany Queen Consort Prussia [aged 60] died.
On 9th August 1902 King Edward VII of the United Kingdom [aged 60] was crowned VII King of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey [Map]. [his wife] Alexandra of Denmark Queen Consort England [aged 57] was crowned Queen Consort by Archbishop William Dalrymple Maclagan [aged 76].
Winifred, Duchess of Portland [aged 38], wearing the Portland Diamond Tiara, commissioned esppecially for the event, served as a canopy bearer to Queen Alexandra.
The current Kew Bridge [Map] was opened on 20th May 1903 by King Edward VII [aged 61] and [his wife] Queen Alexandra [aged 58].
1904. Emil Fuchs [aged 37]. Portrait of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom [aged 62].
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The Times. 2nd February 1905.
Her Royal Highness. [his daughter] Princess Louise (Duchess of Fife) [aged 37] and the [his son-in-law] Duke of Fife [aged 55], were invited to luncheon vith Their Majesties The King [aged 63] and [his wife] Queen [aged 60] to-day.
His Royal Highness Prince Charles of Denmark [aged 32] left the Palace to-day to rejoin tho Danish Cruiser "Heindal," at Southampton, on his return to Denmark.
Mr. Victor Cavendish, M.P, Financial Scretary to the Treasury, Mr. F. P. Horner, Cormnissionor of Woods and Forests, and Lieut. Colonel R. F. Maunsell, R.A., Military Attache at Constantinople, had the honour-of being received by The King.
On 29th January 1906 [his father-in-law] King Christian IX of Denmark [aged 87] died. His son [his brother-in-law] Frederick [aged 62] succeeded VIII King of Denmark. Louise of Sweden Queen Consort Denmark [aged 54] by marriage Queen Consort Denmark.
The Times. 2nd February 1907.
Their Majesties the King [aged 65] and [his wife] Queen [aged 62], attended by the Countess of Gosford [aged 51], the Hon. Charlotte Knollys [aged 72], Captain the Hon. Seymour Fortescue, R.N [aged 50], and Major F. Ponsonby, left the Palace this morning for the British Embassy, Paris.
[his daughter] Her Royal Highness the Princess Victoria [aged 38] accompanied Their Majesties to Calais [Map], and proceeded to Christiania on a visit to Their Majesties the [his son-in-law] King [aged 34] and Queen of Norway [aged 37].
Lady Eva Dugdale and Colonel Sir Henry Knollys [aged 66] (Comptroller and Private Secretary to Her Majesty the Queen of Norway were in attendance upon Her Royal Highness. The King and Queen are travelling u the Duke and Duchess of Lancaster. The Countess of Gosford has succeeded Lady Alice Stanley as Lady in Waiting to Her Majesty.
The Prince of Wales [aged 41], accompanied by Prince Edward of Wales [aged 12], was present at Victoria Station, and took leave of the King and Queen on Their Majesties' departure for Paris. The Hon. Derek Keppel [aged 43] was in attendance.
On 6th May 1910 King Edward VII of the United Kingdom [aged 68] died. His son George [aged 44] succeeded V King of the United Kingdom. Victoria Mary Teck Queen Consort England [aged 42] by marriage Queen Consort England.
On 20th May 1910 King Edward VII of the United Kingdom [deceased] was buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle [Map].
1911. Luke Fildes [aged 67]. Drawing of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom on his deathbed.
On 8th February 1911 Frederick Archibald Vaughan Campbell 3rd Earl Cawdor [aged 63] died. His son Hugh [aged 41] succeeded 4th Earl Cawdor of Castlemartin in Pembrokeshire, 5th Baron Cawdor of Castlemartin in Pembrokeshire. Joan Emily Thynne Countess Cawdor [aged 38] by marriage Countess Cawdor of Castlemartin in Pembrokeshire.
9th February 1911. Times Newspaper Obituaries. DEATH OF LORD CAWDOR. We record with much regret that Lord Cawdor died peacefully in his sleep at 5:45 yesterday morning, a few days before his 64th birthday. Baroness Cadogan [aged 67] and the members of their family were present. He had keen ill for some time. We announced on November 30 that he was suffering from an attack of tonsilitis. Just before Christmns be caught a chill while recoveing from this attack, and had to enter a nursing home. Early in January his illness began to take a serious turn and since then, though he rallied wonderfully from time to time, he steadily lost strength. Royal Sympathy. The King and [his former wife] Queen Alexandra [aged 66] have sent telegms expressing deep sympathy with the family.
On 18th July 1922 Louis Mountbatten 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma [aged 22] and Edwina Ashley [aged 20] were married at St Margaret's Church, Westminster [Map]. He the son of Prince Louis of Battenburg 1st Marquess Milford Haven and Victoria Hesse Darmstadt Marchioness Milford Haven [aged 59].
The wedding, which attracted hugh crowds, was attending by [his daughter-in-law] Queen Mary [aged 55], [his former wife] Queen Alexandra [aged 77] and the Prince of Wales.
Left to right: Mary Ashley [aged 15], Princess Margarita Glücksburg [aged 17], Joan Esther Sybilla Pakenham [aged 18], Sophie Glücksburg [aged 8] (seated), Louis Mountbatten 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Edwina Ashley, [his grandson] Prince of Wales [aged 28], Mary Sibell Ashley-Cooper [aged 19] (seated), Princess Theodora [aged 16] and Princess Cecile [aged 11] (seated).
On 20th November 1925 [his former wife] Alexandra of Denmark Queen Consort England [aged 80] died at Sandringham House, Norfolk at 5.25pm following a heart attack.
Albert Edward Jacob Wilson was born to Jacob Wilson and Margaret Hedley. King Edward VII of the United Kingdom was his godfather.
Adeline Horsey Recollections. The White Hall is full of Balaclava relics, including my husband's uniforms, and the head of "Ronald", the horse he rode when he led the Charge of the Light Brigade. I gave one of "Ronald's" hoofs, mounted as an inkstand, to the King, who expressed a great wish to have it as a souvenir. The illuminated addresses received by Lord Cardigan are in the Great Hall, and some of them are really works of art.
Kings Wessex: Great x 23 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 21 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 27 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 22 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 22 Grand Son of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
Kings Scotland: Great x 22 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 29 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 14 Grand Son of Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 27 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Ernest Saxe Coburg Saalfeld IV Duke Saxe Coburg Saalfeld 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Francis Josias Saxe Coburg Saalfeld Duke Saxe Coburg Saalfeld 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Charlotte Johanna Waldeck Wildungen Duchess Saxe Coburg Saalfeld
Great x 2 Grandfather: Ernest Frederick Saxe Coburg Saalfeld Duke Saxe Coburg Saalfeld 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Prince Louis Frederick I of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Great x 3 Grandmother: Duchess Anna Sophie Of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anna Sophie Saxe Coburg Altenburg 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Francis Saxe Coburg Gotha I Duke Saxe Coburg Gotha 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ferdinand Albert I Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern 13 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ferdinand Albert II Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 14 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Sophia Antonia Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Duchess Saxe Coburg Saalfeld 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Louis Rudolph 14 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
GrandFather: Ernest Saxe Coburg Gotha I Duke Saxe Coburg Gotha 14 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Heinrich XXIV Count Reuss of Ebersdorf
Great x 1 Grandmother: Augusta Reuss Duchess Saxe Coburg Gotha 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Albert II Count of Erbach-Fürstenau
Great x 3 Grandfather: George August Count of Erbach Schonberg
Great x 2 Grandmother: Karoline Ernestine of Erbach Schonberg 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Louis Christian Count of Stolberg Gedern
Great x 3 Grandmother: Ferdinande Henriette Countess of Stolberg Gedern 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Christine of Mecklenburg Güstrow 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Father: Prince Albert Saxe Coburg Gotha 15 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Frederick Saxe Coburg Altenburg II Duke Saxe Gotha Altenburg 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Duke Frederick III of Saxe Coburg Altenburg III 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Magdalena Augusta Anhalt-Zerbst Duchess Saxe Gotha Altenburg
Great x 2 Grandfather: Duke Ernest of Saxe Coburg Altenburg 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ernst Ludwig I Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Great x 3 Grandmother: Luise Dorothea Saxe Meiningen Duchess Saxe Gotha Altenburg
Great x 1 Grandfather: Duke Augustus of Saxe Coburg Altenburg 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Bernhard I Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Great x 3 Grandfather: Anton Ulrich Duke of Saxe Meiningen
Great x 2 Grandmother: Charlotte Saxe Meiningen Duchess Saxe Gotha Altenburg
GrandMother: Duchess Louise Dorothea of Saxe Coburg Altenburg 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Christian Ludwig II Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 14 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Duke Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 15 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Grand Duke Frederick Francis I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Francis Josias Saxe Coburg Saalfeld Duke Saxe Coburg Saalfeld 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Charlotte Sophie Saxe Coburg Saalfeld 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Duchess Anna Sophie Of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Louise Charlotte Mecklenburg-Schwerin 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Frederick Saxe Coburg Altenburg II Duke Saxe Gotha Altenburg 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Johann August Saxe Coburg Altenburg 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Magdalena Augusta Anhalt-Zerbst Duchess Saxe Gotha Altenburg
Great x 2 Grandmother: Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
King Edward VII of the United Kingdom Son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
Great x 4 Grandfather: King George I Great Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandfather: King George II of Great Britain and Ireland 2 x Great Grand Son of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Sophia Dorothea of Celle 
14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Frederick Louis Hanover Prince of Wales Son of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Frederick Hohenzollern 14 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Caroline Hohenzollern Queen Consort England 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: King George III of Great Britain and Ireland Grand Son of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Frederick Saxe Coburg Altenburg I Duke Saxe Gotha Altenburg 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Frederick Saxe Coburg Altenburg II Duke Saxe Gotha Altenburg 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Duchess Magdalena Sibylle of Saxe Gotha Altenburg 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Augusta Saxe Coburg Altenburg 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Magdalena Augusta Anhalt-Zerbst Duchess Saxe Gotha Altenburg
GrandFather: Edward Augustus Hanover 1st Duke Kent and Strathearn Son of King George III of Great Britain and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Duke Adolphus Frederick I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Duke Adolphus Frederick II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 13 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maria Katharina 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Louis Frederick Duke of Mecklenburg 14 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Christian William I Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
Great x 3 Grandmother: Christiane Emilie of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
Great x 1 Grandmother: Charlotte Mecklenburg Strelitz Queen Consort England 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ernest Saxe Gotha 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ernest Frederick Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Louis I Count of Erbach-Erbach
Great x 3 Grandmother: Countess Sophia Albertine of Erbach-Erbach
Mother: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom Grand Daughter of King George III of Great Britain and Ireland
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Ernest Saxe Coburg Saalfeld IV Duke Saxe Coburg Saalfeld 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Francis Josias Saxe Coburg Saalfeld Duke Saxe Coburg Saalfeld 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Charlotte Johanna Waldeck Wildungen Duchess Saxe Coburg Saalfeld
Great x 2 Grandfather: Ernest Frederick Saxe Coburg Saalfeld Duke Saxe Coburg Saalfeld 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Prince Louis Frederick I of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Great x 3 Grandmother: Duchess Anna Sophie Of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anna Sophie Saxe Coburg Altenburg 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Francis Saxe Coburg Gotha I Duke Saxe Coburg Gotha 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ferdinand Albert I Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern 13 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ferdinand Albert II Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 14 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Sophia Antonia Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Duchess Saxe Coburg Saalfeld 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Louis Rudolph 14 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
GrandMother: Marie Luise Victoria Saxe Coburg Gotha Duchess Kent and Strathearn 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Heinrich XXIV Count Reuss of Ebersdorf
Great x 1 Grandmother: Augusta Reuss Duchess Saxe Coburg Gotha 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Albert II Count of Erbach-Fürstenau
Great x 3 Grandfather: George August Count of Erbach Schonberg
Great x 2 Grandmother: Karoline Ernestine of Erbach Schonberg 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Louis Christian Count of Stolberg Gedern
Great x 3 Grandmother: Ferdinande Henriette Countess of Stolberg Gedern 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Christine of Mecklenburg Güstrow 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England