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Up for sale a RARE! "Duke of Cambridge" Prince George Hand Written Note.
ES-2067
Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, (George William
Frederick Charles; 26 March 1819 – 17 March 1904) was a member of the British Royal Family, a
male-line grandson of King George III,
cousin of Queen Victoria, and
maternal uncle of Queen Mary, consort
of King George V. The Duke was an army officer by profession and
served as Commander-in-Chief of the
Forces (military head of the British Army) from 1856 to 1895. He became Duke of Cambridge in 1850 and field marshal in
1862. Deeply devoted to the old Army, he worked with Queen Victoria to defeat or minimize every reform
proposal, such as setting up a general staff. His Army became a moribund and
stagnant institution, lagging far behind the French Army and the German Army. Its
weaknesses were dramatically revealed by the poor organization at the start of
the Second Boer War.