Carte-de-viste, circa 1860

Carte-de-viste, circa 1860

Museum ID: WNDRB : 1977.399

Portrait photograph, in its own marroon leather case, of a young Prince Alfred, Second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Duke of Edinburgh and later Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He is wearing naval uniform and also two large medals or brooches on his uniform on his left, A star shaped medal, similar to the (Order of the) Garter Star which might be The Ernestine Order of Saxe-Coberg-Gotha(?). Below that is a pentagon-shaped medal, which is the Portuguese Order of the Tower of the Sword, which he received in 1859.

Measurements: 90 x 75 x 12

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