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GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. tcignIn obcrcign. VI C T 0 Ft I A, fly TIlE GRACE OF GOD, OF THE UNITED KINGDOH OF GREAT BRItAIM AND IRELAND, AND OF THE COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES THEREOF IN EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, AMERICA, AND AUSTRALASIA, QUEEN, DEFNNDER oF TE FAITH. Her Majesty was born at Kensington Palace, the 24th of May, 1819; ascended the throne at the decease of her uncle, King WILLIAM IV., 20th June, 1837; and was crowned in the Abbey of Westminster, 28th June, 1838. The Queen as. at St. James’s Palace, 10th February, 1540, His Regal Highaess, FRANCII-ALBERT-AU0USTUS-CNAELES-EMANUEL, PEINCE CONSORT (such title and dignity being conferred upon him, by letters-patent, under the Great Seal, 25th June, 1857), Duke of SaEony, and Prince of Saxe Coburg-Gotha, KG., NT., NP., G.C.T’LG., Knight of the Golden Fleece of Spain, Knight of the Semphim of Sweden, Great Master of the Order of the Path, LL.D., DCL, PhD., Field-Marshal in the Army, Colonel of the Grenadier Gnards, Colonel-in-Chief of the Rifle Brigade, Captain-General and Colonel of the Hon. Artillery Company, Lord Warden of the Stanoaries, and Chief Steward of the Duchy of Cornwall, Governor and Constable of Windsor Castle, Ranger of Windsor Great Park, High Steward of New Windsor, and High Steward of Plymouth, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, and Master of the Trinity House, 2nd son of Ernest- Frederick-Anthony-Charles-Louis, late Reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, and by him (who, 5. at Ehrenberg, 26 Aug. 1819. died at Windsor Castle, 14 Dec. 1861) has issue,