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| Picture No | 11786210 |
| Date | 1900 |
| Description | Charles, 2nd Duke of Saxe-Coburg |
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Charles Edward, 2nd Duke of Albany, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha from from 30 July 1900 to 14 November 1918, (1884-1954). in the uniform of Ninth, Charlie became Duke of Saxe-Coburg in 1899. Prince Alfred's only son had died and although the succession naturally passed to Prince Arthur and then his son, they declined and so Charlie was was uprooted from Eton and England at the age of thirteen and sent to Germany, despite hardly knowing the language. At the Kaiser's suggestion he was sent to Lichterfield military academy at Potsdam and he went on from there to Bonn. He inherited the Coburg title a week after his sixteenth birthday.
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| Source | Front cover photograph by Uhlenhuth, Coburg, in 'The Sphere', 11 August 1900 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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