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THE PRINCE OF WALES.

THE PRINCE OF WALES, DUKE OF CORNWALL

THE most high, puissant, and illustrious Prince Albert Edward, Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Prince of Wales, Duke of Saxony, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha,([1]) Great Steward of Scotland, Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay, Earl of Chester, Carrick, and Dublin, Baron of Renfrew, and Lord of the Isles, K.G, K.T., G.C.B., K.P., G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., P.C.; a Field Marshal in the Army, Col. 10th Hussars, Capt.-General of the Hon. Artillery Company, Col.-in-Chief Rifle Brigade, Honorary Colonel of the Oxford and of the Cambridge University Corps, of the Middlesex Civil Service Corps of Rifle Volunteers, of the Royal Aberdeenshire Highlanders, and of the Sutherland Highland Rifle Volunteers; Hon. Captain of the Naval Reserve; A.D.C. to Her Majesty; an Elder Brother of Trinity house; also Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of Freemasons of England, President of the Society of Arts, and of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. His Royal Highness was born at Buckingham Palace 9 Nov. 1841; created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, by patent under the Great Seal, 4 Dec. 1841; baptized at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, 25 Jan.


  1. H.R.H. resigned, Oct. 1863, on behalf of himself and his descendants, all right and title to the reigning Dukedom of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in favour of the Duke of Edinburgh and his descendants