He was promoted to captain on 23 February 1866 and was appointed to the command of the frigate HMS Galatea in January 1867. Prince Alfred remained in the navy, and was promoted to lieutenant on 24 February 1863, serving under Count Gleichen on the corvette HMS Racoon. She and her late husband had made plans for him to succeed to the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg. On the abdication of King Otto of Greece, in 1862, Prince Alfred was chosen to succeed him, but the British government blocked plans for him to ascend the Greek throne, largely because of the Queen's opposition to the idea. He took part in a hunt at Hartebeeste-Hoek, resulting in the slaughter of large numbers of game animals. In July 1860, while on this ship, he paid an official visit to the Cape Colony, and made a very favourable impression both on the colonials and on the native chiefs. ![]() He passed the examination in August 1858, and was appointed as midshipman in HMS Euryalus at the age of 14. A separate establishment was accordingly assigned to him, with Lieutenant J.C. In 1856, at the age of 12, it was decided that Prince Alfred, in accordance with his own wishes, should enter the Royal Navy. Alfred became third in line to the throne and as Edward and Alexandra continued to have children, Alfred was further demoted in the order of succession. Īlfred remained second in line to the British throne from his birth until 8 January 1864, when his older brother Edward and his wife Alexandra of Denmark had their first son, Prince Albert Victor. Īlfred studied violin at Holyrood, Edinburgh, where his accompanist was Hungarian expatriate George Lichtenstein. His godparents were his mother's first cousin, Prince George of Cambridge (represented by his father, the Duke of Cambridge) his paternal aunt, the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (represented by his maternal grandmother, the Duchess of Kent) and Queen Victoria's half-brother, the Prince of Leiningen (represented by the Duke of Wellington, Conservative Leader in the Lords). Nicknamed Affie, he was second in the line of succession to the British throne behind his elder brother, the Prince of Wales.Īlfred was baptised by the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Howley, at the Private Chapel in Windsor Castle on 6 September 1844. 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.
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