Albany Gallery

St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex - Caple ne Ferne

London Transport Central Road Services (CRS) Employees Friendly Society Convalescent Home - "Caple-ne-Ferne" viewed from the Pevensey Road. Caple ne Ferne is a Grade II listed building situated at 2 Albany Road in St Leonards-on-Sea. It was built in 1879 for Major Robert Tubbs (a retired army officer) and his French born wife Fanny. The large detached house with servant quarters was built by local architects Jeffery & Skiller in an eclectic style that is also reminiscent of the architecture of northern France. The name Caple ne Ferne was thought to have come from old Norman French meaning 'Chapel in the Woods'. Date: 1923

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Charles, Duke of Saxe-Coburg

Charles Edward, 2nd Duke of Albany, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1884-1954). 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. Date: 1903

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Caricature of Prince Leopold and Princess Helena

Caricature of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853-1884), youngest son of Queen Victoria, and Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Duchess of Albany (1861-1922). They married on 27 April 1882.
1882

© Terry Parker / Mary Evans Picture Library

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