Fine letter , 4 pages, 8th May, 1876 Marlborough House, ALFRED - Duke of EDINBURGH to Sir HENRY PONSONBY regarding the voting of the ROYAL TITLE Acts, The Prince of Wales, views and others who said they will not vote and with reference to Stafford (Sir Stafford Northcote,) finding out through the newspapers of the Queens addition title of The EMPRESS OF INDIA.
"Malborough House/Pall Mall S.W. 8th May 1876.
My dear Ponsonby, I have seen kingscote, he tells me that he has no intention of voting not knowing the Prince of Wales wishes, he has never spoken of the matter to bill Carington, he saw Stafford this afternoon who said he was not going to vote, he further said that the Marlbro House party was a pure fiction, but that he himself had expressed himself strongly about The Prince of Wales never having been consulted by the Queen or the Government & having first heard of the addition to the Royal Title through the newspapers. I suppose therefore should take no further action & shall go to Portsmouth by the 11.35 train tomorrow/believe me/yours very truly/ Alfred- the reverse he has added "I have just seen Bill Carington who is not going to vote & never heard of any others voting together against the Government. respecting the P of W's views as he says he does not know these views " Prince Alfred (Alfred Ernest Albert; 6 August 1844 – 30 July 1900) was the sovereign duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1893 to 1900. He was the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He was known as the Duke of Edinburgh from 1866 until he succeeded his paternal uncle Ernest II as the reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in the German Empire. 1858 He joined the Royal Navy
HMS SULTAN She was commissioned at Chatham for the Channel Fleet, in which she served until 1876. She was refitted, being reduced to barque rig, and posted to the Mediterranean under the command of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. The Royal Titles Act 1876 (39 & 40 Vict., c. 10) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which officially recognized Queen Victoria (and subsequent monarchs) as “Empress of India”. This title had been assumed by her in 1876, under the encouragement of the prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.[3] The long title of the Act is "An Act to enable Her most Gracious majesty to make an addition to the Royal Style and Titles appertaining to the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom and its Dependencies." It was repealed by the Indian Independence Act 1947. Marlborough House set (act. 1870s–1901), also known as the smart set, was a social clique of fashionable men and women that revolved around the court of Albert Edward, prince of Wales [see Edward VII], and was centred in London on Marlborough House, Pall Mall. The prince had moved into Marlborough House following his marriage to Princess Alexandra of Denmark in 1863. Initially ‘Marlborough House’ served as a shorthand for the prince's household, including General Sir William Knollys, comptroller and treasurer (1863–78), his son Francis Knollys, the prince's private secretary (1870–1910), and the equerries and courtiers who worked there. Marlborough House was also a court and served as the base from which the prince exercised 'social sovereignty'. Queen Victoria's extended mourning for Prince Albert, coupled with her distaste for ‘society’, meant that she had effectively abdicated the monarch's social role in favour of the prince of Wales. He presided at levees and drawing rooms held at Buckingham Palace, and—with the princess—held balls and garden parties at Marlborough House, where they also entertained visiting royalty.
"Malborough House/Pall Mall S.W. 8th May 1876.
My dear Ponsonby, I have seen kingscote, he tells me that he has no intention of voting not knowing the Prince of Wales wishes, he has never spoken of the matter to bill Carington, he saw Stafford this afternoon who said he was not going to vote, he further said that the Marlbro House party was a pure fiction, but that he himself had expressed himself strongly about The Prince of Wales never having been consulted by the Queen or the Government & having first heard of the addition to the Royal Title through the newspapers. I suppose therefore should take no further action & shall go to Portsmouth by the 11.35 train tomorrow/believe me/yours very truly/ Alfred- the reverse he has added "I have just seen Bill Carington who is not going to vote & never heard of any others voting together against the Government. respecting the P of W's views as he says he does not know these views " Prince Alfred (Alfred Ernest Albert; 6 August 1844 – 30 July 1900) was the sovereign duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1893 to 1900. He was the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He was known as the Duke of Edinburgh from 1866 until he succeeded his paternal uncle Ernest II as the reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in the German Empire. 1858 He joined the Royal Navy
HMS SULTAN She was commissioned at Chatham for the Channel Fleet, in which she served until 1876. She was refitted, being reduced to barque rig, and posted to the Mediterranean under the command of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. The Royal Titles Act 1876 (39 & 40 Vict., c. 10) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which officially recognized Queen Victoria (and subsequent monarchs) as “Empress of India”. This title had been assumed by her in 1876, under the encouragement of the prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.[3] The long title of the Act is "An Act to enable Her most Gracious majesty to make an addition to the Royal Style and Titles appertaining to the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom and its Dependencies." It was repealed by the Indian Independence Act 1947. Marlborough House set (act. 1870s–1901), also known as the smart set, was a social clique of fashionable men and women that revolved around the court of Albert Edward, prince of Wales [see Edward VII], and was centred in London on Marlborough House, Pall Mall. The prince had moved into Marlborough House following his marriage to Princess Alexandra of Denmark in 1863. Initially ‘Marlborough House’ served as a shorthand for the prince's household, including General Sir William Knollys, comptroller and treasurer (1863–78), his son Francis Knollys, the prince's private secretary (1870–1910), and the equerries and courtiers who worked there. Marlborough House was also a court and served as the base from which the prince exercised 'social sovereignty'. Queen Victoria's extended mourning for Prince Albert, coupled with her distaste for ‘society’, meant that she had effectively abdicated the monarch's social role in favour of the prince of Wales. He presided at levees and drawing rooms held at Buckingham Palace, and—with the princess—held balls and garden parties at Marlborough House, where they also entertained visiting royalty.
Marlborough House also stood for a political position, especially on foreign policy and dynastic issues. In line with Alexandra's Danish family Marlborough House took a strongly anti-Prussian position during the Schleswig-Holstein crisis; in doing so it lined up against the queen who, sympathizing with her daughter, the crown princess of Prussia, took Prussia's side. Marlborough House was thus the ‘reversionary interest’, and tensions emerged between the queen and her son. The prince was personally sympathetic to William Gladstone, whom the queen detested, and wary of Benjamin Disraeli, the queen's favourite minister. Politically, however, the prince usually sympathized with Disraeli, for example supporting Turkey and opposing Russia in the eastern crisis of 1876–8.
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