 | Edmund Burke - History - 1902 - 706 pages
...TALBOT. OBITUAKY OF EMINENT PERSONS DECEASED IN 1901. JANUARY. Queen Victoria. — Alexandrina Victoria, only child of Edward, Duke of Kent, fourth son of George III., by his marriage with Victoria, daughter of Francis, Duke of Coburg, the widow of Carl Ludwig, Prince... | |
 | S. Blewett - Great Britain - 1849 - 228 pages
...the Commons of the land. Now Peel 's appointed to the helm, And guides the councils of the realm : 1 Daughter and only child of Edward Duke of Kent, fourth son of George III., and brother to the two last kings. 3 Son of the then reigning Duke of Saxc Cobourg Gotha, and cousin... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1859 - 430 pages
...suflerings. 'William died universally lamented. ALEXANDEINA VICTOEIA. 1837. THIS princess, who was tLe only child of Edward Duke of Kent, fourth son of George III., succeeded her uncle William IV. She was proclaimed on the day following her accession, and was crowned... | |
 | Thomas Simpson Birkby - 1870 - 242 pages
...I. 1837 to 1850After King William's death, the crown descended to the Princess Alexandrina Victoria, only child of Edward, duke of Kent, fourth son of George III. The duke died, January 23, 1820, when the princess was only a few months old, so that the responsibility... | |
 | William Stewart Ross - Great Britain - 1872 - 138 pages
...the first time it had appeared in England (1831-2). QUEEN VICTORIA, niece of the late king, and issj; only child of Edward, Duke of Kent, fourth son of George III., now ascended the throne. In virtue of the Salic law a female could not heir Hanover, so the young Queen's... | |
 | David Mitchell Aird - Law - 1873 - 366 pages
...having previously died without lawful issue. On the death of William IV., the Crown descended to the only child of Edward Duke of Kent, fourth son of George III., our present gracious Sovereign, Queen Victoria. CHAPTER IX. THE dUEEN AND THE EOYAL FAMILY. Let us... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1874 - 808 pages
...VICTORIA ALEXANDRIA, queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and empress of India, &c., was the daughter and only child of Edward, duke of Kent, fourth son of George III., by his wife, Maria Louisa Victoria, of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. At the death of her father, in 1820, the... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1876 - 894 pages
...at Kensington palace, May 24, 1810. She is the sixth sovereign of the house of Hanover, and is tho only child of Edward, duke of Kent, fourth son of George III., and tho princess Victoria Mary Louisa of SaxeCoburg-Saalfeld, relict of the hereditary prince of Leiningen.... | |
 | Edward Henslowe Bedford - Law - 1879 - 308 pages
...having previously died without lawful issue; on the death of William IV. the crown descended to the only child of Edward, Duke of Kent, fourth son of George III., our present sovereign Queen Victoria. What may be collected from the last answer ? (1.) That the crown... | |
 | 1881 - 300 pages
...has travelled with the sun-light from 'meridian to meridian round the globe. 4. Queen Victoria is the only child of Edward, Duke of Kent, fourth son of George III. Her mother was Victoria, Princess of Saxe-Coburg, sister of 'Leopold, late King of the Belgians; and also sister... | |
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She was the daughter and only child of Edward, Duke of Kent, fourth son of George III. 
