Up for auction 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.