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I don't have a lot of information on this one other than it was provided by a friend in Queensland, Australia, and it is of her father from Leith, Scotland.

If I get anymore info I'll add it here:

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King Edward VII with four of his grandchildren

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From the cares of Empire to the joys of Home - King Edward VII and his grandchildren (the princes of York), Balmoral, Scotland.
Reverse is blank.

1902 by Underwood and Underwood.

Published by Underwood and Underwood.

An informal photograph of King Edward VII with four of the children of his son, the future George V. The boy on the left is 'David', the future Edward VIII, the boy on the right is 'Bertie', the future George VI, the girl is Princess Mary, the Princess Royal, and the third boy is probably Prince Henry, the future Duke of Gloucester. The children had a very formal relationship with their own parents, their father exercising a strictness with the two older boys that bordered on cruelty.



The Forth Bridge and the Highland Kilt

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Scotland's pride - the great Forth Bridge and the Highland Kilt.
Published by Underwood and Underwood.

1900 by Underwood and Underwood.

An extensive printed description verso gives every detail of the bridge's history and construction, finishing with a paragraph which reads:

The 'braw, bonnie laddies' in kilts wear the uniform of one of the British Highland regiments, hardy in the field and capable of standing as firm as the rocks of their native land.

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Prince Alfred (1844-1900) Duke of Edinburgh,
second son of Queen Victoria.

Prince Alfred (‘Affie’), Duke of Edinburgh, was born in 1844 at Buckingham Palace, the 4th child of Queen Victoria, and the only one not born at Windsor. The Queen wrote when he was only a year old that Alfred was the possessor of a ‘very good manly temper’ which he reportedly retained for the rest of his life. In 1867-68 he made an extended tour of Australia where he was the victim of an unsuccessful assassination attempt by a Fenian, an Irishman named Henry James O’Farrell, at Clondarf in New South Wales on 12 March 1868. O’Farrell was hanged the following month. In 1874 Prince Alfred married Maria Alexandrovna, Grand Duchess of Russia. In 1893 he succeeded his uncle Ernest II as reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha. Prince Alfred died 30 July 1900 at Schloss Rosenau, near Coburg.

Prince Alfred was the first serious stamp collector in the royal family and was Honorary President of what is now the Royal Philatelic Society from 1890 until his death. Before he died, he sold his collection to his elder brother the Prince of Wales.

Photographed by T. Roger of St Andrew in Scotland.

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A carte-de-visite portrait of Prince Leopold, known as ‘Leo’ within the family.

Born on 7 April 1853 at Buckingham Palace, Prince Leopold was the youngest and cleverest of Victoria’s sons. He managed to overcome his mother’s initial objections to the proposal and studied at Christchurch, Oxford from 1872 to 1876, leaving with an honorary DCL (Doctor of Civil Law). In 1881 he was created Duke of Albany, and the following year he married Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont. The couple had two children, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (1883-1981) and Charles Edward, 2nd Duke of Albany (1884-1954). The latter was born after his father’s death. Prince Leopold was a haemophiliac. He died on 28 March 1884 at Cannes, after falling on the tiled floor of a clubhouse.

Photographed by William and Daniel Downey of Newcastle and London.

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A carte-de-visite portrait of a Scotsman in a kilt, his dirk prominently displayed at his waist and a feather in his Glengarry cap.

Photographed by A. Crowe of Sterling.

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A carte-de-visite portrait of a Scotsman in a kilt, one hand resting on his dirk, the other holding his Glengarry cap.

Photographed by J. Collier of Inverness.

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A carte-de-visite portrait of a Scotsman in a kilt, wearing a dress sporran with a badge, possible a thistle, on its cantle, and two long horsehair tassels.

Photographed by Porter’s Photographic Gallery of County Place, Perth.

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A carte-de-visite portrait of a Scotsman with a gun. An inscription on the page of the album that this came from identified the sitter as ‘Col. Walter Campbell [of] Skipness’. The portrait comes from album compiled by the Campbells of Islay. Colonel Walter Campbell was the ‘foster-brother’ of John Campbell of Islay, according to the latter’s obituary in the Times (19 February 1885), and at his death, replaced him as Deputy Ranger of Windsor Park.

Photographed by White of 98, West George Street, Glasgow.

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A carte-de-visite portrait of a kilted Scotsman with a bald head and thick white beard, wearing a mourning band around the arm of his jacket.

Photographed by A.F. Mackenzie of Birnam in Perthshire.