Vanity Fair Musicians - HRH the Duke of Edinburgh

First Violin' . Vanity Fair portrait of Alfred (1844-1900), the second son. 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. In 1867 as Captain of HMS Galatea he visited Australia where an assasination attempt was made on his life by Henry James O'Farrell. In 1873 Ward (1851 - 1922) was recruited by the editor of Vanity Fair to replace Carlo Pellegrini (Ape).