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On This Day In Royal History . 26 March 1819 . Prince George, 2nd Duke of Cambridge was born . . ◼ Prince George was born at Cambridge House in Hanover, Germany. . ◼ His father was Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, the 10th child & seventh son of King George III & Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. His mother was the Duchess of Cambridge (née Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel). . ◼ Prince George was Queen Victoria’s cousin & almost exactly the same age as she. He spent his childhood in Hanover, where his father was the governor-general, but in 1830 he was sent to live with William IV & Queen Adelaide in England. . ◼ In August 1835, he was made a knight of the Order of the Garter & re-joined his parents in Hanover in 1836. . ◼ On the accession of Queen Victoria, in June 1837, the Duke of Cambridge returned with his family to England. . ◼ On the Queen’s wedding day, 10 February 1840, George met the beautiful actress & dancer Miss Sarah – usually known as Louisa – Fairbrother (1816–1890), daughter of Robert Fairbrother, a London theatrical printer. They began an affair & had two children before marrying on 8 January 1847. Known as Mrs FitzGeorge, Louisa bore the Prince another son on 12 June 1847. . ◼ Prince George had a distinguished military career & was extremely popular within the army. He commanded the 1st Division during the Crimean War, including at the Battles of Alma, Balaklava & Inkerman. He later served as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army from 1856 until 1895. . ◼ He was also a keen sportsman, an excellent after-dinner speaker, & acknowledged by contemporaries to be a kind & considerate man. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #d26mar #theyear1819 #PrinceGeorge #DukeofCambridge #History #houseofsaxecoburgandgotha #BritishMonarchy #otd #royals #royalty #duke #Cambridge #OnThisDay #RoyalHistory #RoyalFamily #RoyalFacts #historyfacts #RoyalCollection #Britishroyalty #hanover (at Hanover, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-NyTdhjbb2/?igshid=1omqncevtlu92

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On This Day In History . 26 August 1819 . Prince Albert was born . . Albert was born at Schloss Rosenau, near Coburg, Germany, the second son of Ernest III, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, & his first wife, Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. . ◼ Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Full name: Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel; later The Prince Consort; was the husband of Queen Victoria. . ◼ He was born in the Saxon duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld to a family connected to many of Europe's ruling monarchs. . ◼ At the age of 20 he married his first cousin, Queen Victoria, with whom he would ultimately have nine children. . ◼ At first, Albert felt constrained by his position as consort, which did not confer any power or duties upon him. Over time he adopted many public causes, such as educational reform & a worldwide abolition of slavery, & took on the responsibilities of running the Queen's household, estates & office. . ◼ He was heavily involved with the organisation of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Albert aided in the development of Britain's constitutional monarchy by persuading his wife to show less partisanship in her dealings with Parliament. . ◼ He died at the early age of 42 on 14 December 1861, plunging the Queen into a deep mourning that lasted for the rest of her life. Upon Queen Victoria's death in 1901, their eldest son, Edward VII, succeeded as the first British monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, named after the ducal house to which Albert belonged. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1819 #PrinceAlbert #PrinceConsort #RoyalFamily #Royals #Royal #HouseofSaxeCoburgandGotha #Royalty #Monarchy #History #RoyaltyinArt #BritishMonarchy #D26Aug #QueenVictoria #RoyalHistory #Instahistory #Coburg #Germany #deutschland #OnThisDay #historyfacts #buckinghampalace (at Coburg, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1oXzo9AOmK/?igshid=zmariro1gks5

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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY . 24 MAY 1819 . Queen Victoria was born . . 👑. Victoria, was born at 4.15 a.m. on 24 May 1819 at Kensington Palace in London. . ⏹️ Victoria's father was Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of the reigning King of the United Kingdom, George III. Until 1817, Edward's niece, Princess Charlotte of Wales, was the only legitimate grandchild of George III. Her death in 1817 precipitated a succession crisis that brought pressure on the Duke of Kent & his unmarried brothers to marry & have children. In 1818, he married Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, a widowed German princess who already had two children Carl (1804–1856) & Feodora (1807–1872) by her first marriage to the Prince of Leiningen. Her brother Leopold was the widower of Princess Charlotte. . . ⏹️ Victoria was christened privately by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Charles Manners-Sutton, on 24 June 1819 in the Cupola Room at Kensington Palace. She was baptised Alexandrina, after one of her godparents, Emperor Alexander I of Russia, & Victoria after her mother. Additional names proposed by her parents Georgina (or Georgiana), Charlotte & Augusta were dropped on the instructions of the Duke's elder brother, the Prince Regent (later George IV). . ⏹️ At birth, Victoria was fifth in the line of succession after her father & his three older brothers: the Prince Regent, the Duke of York, & the Duke of Clarence (later William IV). . . . #Onthisdayinhistory #Thisdayinhistory #d24may #theyear1819 #QueenVictoria #HouseofHanover #HerMajesty #Royalty #Monarchy #History #BritishMonarchy #RoyalHistory #TheQueen #RoyalFamily #Royalbaby #OnThisDay #heritage #GreatBritain #Empress #Majestic #Majesty #London #Victorian #victorianage #OsborneHouse #Balmoral #buckinghampalace #kensingtonpalace #GodSaveTheQueen (at Kensington Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx1_dwqFx_n/?igshid=1kwqjt13dtuhd

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Queen Victoria was born on This Day 200 years ago 👑 . . 👑 On 20 June 1837, William IV died at the age of 71, & Victoria became Queen of the United Kingdom. . 👑 In her diary she wrote, "I was awoke at 6 o'clock by Mamma, who told me the Archbishop of Canterbury & Lord Conyngham were here & wished to see me. I got out of bed & went into my sitting-room (only in my dressing gown) & alone, & saw them. Lord Conyngham then acquainted me that my poor Uncle, the King, was no more, & had expired at 12 minutes past 2 this morning, & consequently that I am Queen." . 👑 Official documents prepared on the first day of her reign described her as Alexandrina Victoria, but the first name was withdrawn at her own wish & not used again. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1819 #D24may #EmpressofIndia #QueenVictoria  #HerMajesty #HouseofHanover #Royalfamily #BritishMonarchy #GodSaveTheQueen #Victorian #Art #RoyalArt #Majesty #majestic #TheQueen #VictorianEra #historyfacts #Historic #throne #Crown #Monarch #Royalhistory #GreatBritain Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019 (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx219j6AmZq/?igshid=qz4soltxabm2