Edinburgh Gallery

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and their Children

Queen Victoria (1819-1901) and Prince Consort Albert (1819-1961) and their Family (from top left, going across and then down): Victoria, Princess Royal (Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa), German Empress and Queen of Prussia by marriage to German Emperor Frederick III (1840-1901), King Edward VII (1841-1910), Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (formerly The Duke of Edinburgh) (1840-1900), The Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853-1884), The Duke of Connaught (1850-1942), Helena, Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (1846-1923), Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine (1843-1878), Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (later Princess Henry of Battenberg) (1857-1944) and Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939). Date: circa 1910

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Battenberg children

The four children of Prince Louis of Battenberg, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven and Princess Victoria of Hesse. Clockwise from left: Princess Louise, later Lady Louise Mountbatten (1889-1965), later Queen of Sweden, Prince George, later George Mountbatten (1892-1938), 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, Princess Alice, later Princess Andrew of Greece (1885-1969), mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Louis, later Lord Louis Mountbatten (1900-1979). Date: c.1907

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Modern Athenians plate 1 - Edinburgh

Alexander Youngson on the left hand plate, approaching John Sheriff, alias Dr. Syntax, on the right hand plate. Youngson was apparently not happy about being depicted with Dr. Syntax, whose name was "doubtless bestowed from the remarkable likeness he showed to the figure so called in Rowlandson's coloured prints, published about the year 1815. Dressed with the most scrupulous care and cleanliness, in an antiquated costume of semi-military character with highly polished Hessian boots, he was to be seen every Sunday staling at a rapid pace through the streets with his cane poised on his shoulder. He rendered himself still more grotesque by wearing a pair of green spectacles and a remarkably low-crowned hat - probably a cast-off one of Dr. John Ritchie's, the well-known voluntary church controversialist."

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