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The Strand Magazine.

THE DUKE OF CLARENCE AND AVONDALE.

Born 1864.

Age 5.
From a Photo. by Messrs. W. & D. Downey.
Age 7.
From a Photo. by Messrs. W. & D. Downey.
Age 14.
From a Photo. by Messrs. W. & D. Downey.
Age 19.
From a Photo. by Messrs. W. & D. Downey.


A T the age of seven Prince Albert Victor was receiving his education at home.
Age 26.
From a Photo. by Messrs. W. & D. Downey.
At fourteen—at which age he is here depicted in a Highland costume—he was, like his brother George, a cadet on board H.M.S. Britannia at Dartmouth. At nineteen, he became an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge; after which he was transferred to Aldershot to study military science.

These portraits are published by special arrangement with Messrs. W. and D. Downey, whose permission thus to reproduce photographs of celebrities from their enormous and unique assortment we are the first to obtain.