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Alfred … PrinceAge: 251874–1899

Name
Alfred … Prince
Given names
Alfred
Name suffix
Prince
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Birth 1874 29 20
 

Marriage of parentsView family
23 January 1874
 Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia

father - Alfred Ernest Albert … Prince
mother - Marie Alexandrovna … Grand Duchess
Birth of a sister 29 October 1875 (Age 21 months)
 Eastwell Park, Kent, England

younger sister - Queen Of Romania Marie … Of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha
Australian History 1875 (Age 12 months)
 

Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives.
Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed.
Birth of a sister 1876 (Age 2)
 Malta

younger sister - Victoria Melita Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Birth of a sister 1878 (Age 4)
 

younger sister - Princess Alexandra …
Australian History 1878 (Age 4)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 5)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Death of a maternal grandmother 1880 (Age 6)
 

maternal grandmother - Marie … Of Hesse - Darmstadt
Australian History 1880 (Age 6)
 

Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged.
Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work.
Death of a maternal grandfather 13 March 1881 (Age 7)
 

maternal grandfather - Alexander II Nicholoevich Romanov Tsar Of Russia
Australian History 1882 (Age 8)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (Age 9)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Birth of a sister 1884 (Age 10)
 

younger sister - Beatrice … Princess
Australian History 1887 (Age 13)
 

Note: An Australian cricket team is established, defeating England in the first Ashes series. First direct Inter-colonial passenger trains begin running between Adelaide and Melbourne.
Australian History 1889 (Age 15)
 

Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.
Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration.
Australian History 1890 (Age 16)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Australian History 1891 (Age 17)
 

Note: A National Australasian Convention meets, agrees on adopting the name 'the Commonwealth of Australia' and drafting a constitution.
Note: The first attempt at a federal constitution is drafted.
Note: The Convention adopts the constitution, although it has no legal status
Note: A severe depression hits Australia
Australian History 1892 (Age 18)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Marriage of a sisterQueen Of Romania Marie … Of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha - View family
10 January 1893 (Age 19)
 Sigmaringen, Germany

brother-in-law - King Of Romania Ferdinand I Hohenzollern Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
younger sister - Queen Of Romania Marie … Of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha
Australian History 1893 (Age 19)
 

Note: The Corowa Conference (the 'people's convention') calls on the colonial parliaments to pass enabling acts, allowing the election of delegates to a new constitutional convention aimed at drafting a proposal and putting it to a referendum in each colony.
Marriage of a sisterVictoria Melita Saxe-Coburg and Gotha - View family
1894 (Age 20)
 

brother-in-law - Grand Duke Ernest Louis … Of Hesse
younger sister - Victoria Melita Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Australian History 1894 (Age 20)
 

Note: South Australia becomes the first Australian colony, and the second place in the world, to grant women the right to vote, as well the first Parliament in the world to allow women to stand for office.
Australian History 1895 (Age 21)
 

Note: The premiers, except for those of Queensland and Western Australia, agree to implement the Corowa proposals.
Note: Waltzing Matilda is first sung in public, in Winton, Queensland
Note: Banjo Paterson publishes The Man from Snowy River
Australian History 1896 (Age 22)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History 1897 (Age 23)
 

Note: In two sessions, the Second National Australasian Convention meets (with representatives from all colonies except Queensland present). They agree to adopt a constitution based on the 1891 draft, and then revise and amend it later that year.
Note: Catherine Helen Spence became the first female political candidate for political office, standing for election as a representative for South Australia.
Australian History 1898 (Age 24)
 

Note: The Convention agrees on a final draft to be put to the people.
Note: After much public debate, the Victorian, South Australian and Tasmanian referendums are successful; the New South Wales referendum narrowly fails. Later New South Wales votes 'yes' in a second referendum, and Queensland and Western Australia also vote to join.
Australian History 1899 (on the date of death)
 

Note: The decision is made to site the national capital in New South Wales, but not within 100 miles of Sydney.
Note: The Australian Labor Party holds office for a few days in Queensland, becoming the first trade union party to do so anywhere in the world.
Note: The first contingents from various Australian colonies are sent to South Africa to participate in the Second Boer War.
Death 1899 (Age 25)
 

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father
Alfred Ernest Albert … Prince

Birth 6 August 1844 24 25  Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England

Death 30 July 1900 (Age 55)  Schloss Rosenau, Coburg, Bavaria, Germany

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9 years
mother
Marie Alexandrovna … Grand Duchess

Birth 17 October 1853 35 29  St. Petersburg, Russia

Death 25 October 1920 (Age 67)  Zurich, Switzerland

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Marriage: 23 January 1874 — Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia
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#1 himself
Alfred … Prince

Birth 1874 29 20  

Death 1899 (Age 25)  

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22 months
#2 younger sister
Queen Of Romania Marie … Of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha

Birth 29 October 1875 31 22  Eastwell Park, Kent, England

Death 10 July 1938 (Age 62)  Castle Pelesch, Sinaia, Romania

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2 months
#3 younger sister
Victoria Melita Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Birth 1876 31 22  Malta

Death 1936 (Age 60)  

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2 years
#4 younger sister
Princess Alexandra …

Birth 1878 33 24  

Death 1942 (Age 64)  

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6 years
#5 younger sister
Beatrice … Princess

Birth 1884 39 30  

Death 1966 (Age 82)  

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Alfred … Prince has 50 first cousins recorded

Father's family (35)

Parents Frederick III … German Emperor + Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
1 William II … German Emperor 1859–1941
2 Duchess Charlotte … Of Saxe-Meiningen 1860–1919
3 Prince Henry … Of Prussia 1862–1929
4 Sigismund … 1864–1866
5 Friederike Amalia Wilhelmine Viktoria Lippe 1866–1929
6 Waldemar … 1868–1879
7 Queen Of Greece Sophie … Of Prussia 1870–1932
8 Princess Margarete … Of Hesse 1872–1954
Parents Edward VII Wettin King Of England + Princess Alexandra … Of Denmark
1 Albert Victor Christian Edward Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 1864–1892
2 George Frederick Ernest Albert Windsor 1865–1936
3 Louise Victoria Alexandra Dagmar Windsor 1867–1931
4 Victoria Alexandra Olga … 1868–1935
5 Princess Maude Charlotte Mary … 1869–1938
6 John Alexander … 1871–1871
Parents Grand Duke Louis IV … Of Hesse + Princess Alice Maud Mary …
1 Princess Victoria, Australia Alberta … Of Hesse 1863–1950
2 Elizabeth "Ella" … Grand Duchess 1864–1918
3 Princess Irene … Of Hesse 1866–1953
4 Grand Duke Ernest Louis … Of Hesse 1868–1937
5 Frederick … 1870–1873
6 Alexandra Fedorovna "Alix" … Tsarina 1872–1918
7 Mary "May" … 1874–1878
Parents (Frederick) Christian Charles … Prince + Helena Augusta Victoria Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
1 Christian Victor … 1867–1900
2 Albert … Duke Of Schleswig-Holstein 1869–1931
3 Helena Victoria Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg 1870–1948
4 Princess Marie Louise … 1872–1956
5 Frederick Harold … 1876–1876
Parents Prince Arthur William Patrick … + Duchess Louise Margaret … Of Prussia
1 Crown Princess Margaret … Of Sweden 1882–1920
2 Duke Arthur … Of Connaught 1883–1938
3 Patricia … Lady Ramsay 1886–1974
Parents Prince Leopold George Duncan … + Princess Helena Frederica … Of Waldeck
1 Princess Alice … Of Athlone 1883–1981
2 Duke Charles Edward … 1884–1954
Parents Prince Henry Maurice … Of Battenberg + Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore Battenberg
1 Marquess Alexander … Of Carisbrooke 1886–1960
2 Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena Battenberg 1887–1969
3 Leopold … 1889–1922
4 Maurice … Prince 1891–1914

Mother's family (15)

Parents Alexander III Alexandrovich Romanov Tsar Of Russia + Tsarina Dagmar "Marie" … Of Denmark
1 Nicholas II Alexandrovich Romanov Tsar Of Russia 1868–1918
2 Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov 1869–1870
3 George Alexandrovich Romanov Grand Duke 1871–1899
4 Xenia Romanov Grand Duchess 1875–1960
5 Michael "Mischa" Alexandrovich Romanov Grand Duke 1878–1918
6 Olga Alexandrovna Romanov Grand Duchess 1882–1960
Parents Vladimir Romanov Grand Duke + Marie Pavlovna Grand Duchess
1 Cyril Vladimirovitch Romanov Grand Duke 1876–1938
2 Boris Romanov Grand Duke 1877–1943
3 Andrei (Andrew) Vladimirovich Romanov Grand Duke 1879–1956
4 Grand Duchess Helen Vladimirovna Romanov Of Russia 1882–1957
Parents Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich Romanov + Princess Alexandra … Of Greece
1 Maria Pavlovna Romanov 1890–1958
2 Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov Grand Duke 1891–1941
Parents Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich Romanov + Olga Karnovich Princess
1 Vladimir Romanov 1896–1918
2 Natalie Romanov 1905–?
3 Irina Romanov 1908–?

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