Before Kate became the Duchess of Cambridge when she married Prince William in 2011, one other unlikely royal was also in the running for the prestigious title.

Edward will hold the Duke of Edinburgh title for the rest of his ... King George III's brother (1764), Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria's son (1866), and Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband ...

The Duke of Edinburgh title was created in 1726 and ... Queen Victoria re-introduced the title in 1866 for her second son, Prince Alfred. The title then became dormant when he died in 1899 ...

Before being re-created by King George VI, the last Duke of Edinburgh was Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the son of Prince Alfred and grandson of Queen Victoria. The title ...

instead of Duke of York, the traditional title of the second son of the monarch. When his only son Alfred committed suicide in 1899, the Dukedom of Edinburgh became extinct again upon the elder ...

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Prince William, the brother of King George III, was given the joint title of Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh in 1764. Prince Alfred, the second son of Queen Victoria, in 1866 became the third ...

Prince Alfred was 26 years of age at the time ... and among these was John Capper’s book devoted exclusively to the prince’s tour of Ceylon, titled: The Duke of Edinburgh in Ceylon- a book of elephant ...

The first Duke of Edinburgh was created in 1726 ... Queen Victoria recreated the title in 1866 for her second son, Prince Alfred, and it was created again in 1947 for Prince Philip.

Prince Alfred. When Prince Philip married then-Princess Elizabeth in 1947, King George VI gave Philip the title. If Prince Edward becomes Duke of Edinburgh, as was previously suggested ...

The new Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, Britain’s Prince Edward ... in 1764; and Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria’s second son, in 1866. Edward previously received a new title in 2019, when ...