Grandson Gallery

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family

Duke Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, with the Duchess (Victoria Adelaide) and their family, from left: Prince John Leopold; Prince Hubert; Princess Caroline; Princess Sybil. The grandson of Queen Victoria, and son of the Duke of Albany, Charles Edward faced a conflict of national loyalty as war broke out months after this photograph was taken. Holding a commission in the German army, he chose to support Germany rather than the country of his birth. Date: 1914

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Summer holidays Seaton, Devon, England

A boy shows his grandmother something he has found in a rock pool on the beach at Seaton, Devon, England. She sits in a folding chair with her feet in the water and holds an umbrella to shade her from the sun Date: 1989

© Philip Dunn / Mary Evans Picture Library

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Charles, 2nd Duke of Saxe-Coburg

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.
1900

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans