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H.R.H. Prince (Francis) Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha), of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom

H.R.H. Prince (Francis) Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha), of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom

Male 1819 - 1861  (42 years)

 

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Shield of Arms of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Quarterly, 1st and 4th, the Royal Arms, with overall a label of three points Argent charged on the centre with cross Gules; 2nd and 3rd, Barry of ten Or and Sable, a crown of rue in bend Vert.

On his marriage to Queen Victoria in 1840, Prince Albert was granted his own personal coat of arms, which was the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom differenced with a three-point label bearing a red cross in the centre, quartered with the arms of Saxony. The Prince's peculiar arms was a "singular example of quartering differenced arms, [which] is not in accordance with the rules of Heraldry, and is in itself an heraldic contradiction." Prior to his marriage he used the arms of his father, undifferenced, following German practice.


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Date4 April 2018
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Linked toH.R.H. Prince (Francis) Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha), of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom
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