Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany

Details

Instance of

human

Born

7 April 1853

Died

28 March 1884

Place of birth

Buckingham Palace

Place of death

Cannes

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Leopold, George, Duncan, Albert

Father

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Mother

Victoria

Spouse

Princess Helena, Duchess of Albany

Child

Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Sibling

Victoria, Princess Royal, Edward VII, Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom

Occupation

politician, aristocrat

Position held

Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, member of the House of Lords

Citizenship

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Awards

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George, Order of St. Andrew, Order of the Garter, Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of Saint John, Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Netherlands Lion

date of baptism

28 June 1853

depicted by

Prince Leopold, later Duke of Albany (1853-84), Prince Leopold (1853-84), Duke of Albany, Prince Leopold (1853-1884), Prince Leopold, later Duke of Albany (1853-1884)

described by source

Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886, New International Encyclopedia

educated at

Christ Church

family

House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

godparent

Georg V of Hanover, Wilhelm I of Württemberg, Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, Ernst I. zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

honorific prefix

Royal Highness

medical condition

hemophilia B, epilepsy

name in native language

Leopold George Duncan Albert

named after

Leopold I of Belgium

noble title

Prince of the United Kingdom, Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence, Baron Arklow, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

place of burial

St George's Chapel, Windsor

social classification

royalty

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