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Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, 1900. The second son of Queen Victoria, Alfred (1844-1900) succeeded his uncle Ernst as Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in 1893. He married the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna, daughter of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, in 1874. A print from The Life and Times of Queen Victoria, by Robert Wilson, Volume IV, Cassell and Company, London, Paris, New York, Melbourne, 1900. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, 1900. The second son of Queen Victoria, Alfred (1844-1900) succeeded his uncle Ernst as Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in 1893. He married the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna, daughter of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, in 1874. A print from The Life and Times of Queen Victoria, by Robert Wilson, Volume IV, Cassell and Company, London, Paris, New York, Melbourne, 1900. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)