On 22 June 1850 Prince Arthur was baptised in the Chapel at Buckingham Palace with the Christian namesArthur William Patrick Albert.[1] As a member of the Royal Family, he had no surname[2] until 17 July 1917, when a Royal Proclamation of King George V declared that all British descendants in the male line of Queen Victoria would bear the name of Windsor.[3]
Titles, styles and honours
Titles and styles
1 May 1850 – 24 May 1874: His Royal Highness The Prince Arthur
As a son of the sovereign, Arthur had the title of Prince and the style of Royal Highness from birth. The princely title had been used for sons of the sovereign since Tudor times[4] and was formalised by letters patent of 30 November 1917,[5] while the style of Royal Highness had been used since the Restoration[4] and was confirmed by letters patent of 3 February 1864.[6] Through his father, Prince Albert, he also bore the titles Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duke in Saxony until 17 July 1917, when King George V discontinued the use of German titles.[3]
On 24 May 1874, Prince Arthur was created Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and Earl of Sussex,[7] in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[8] As a duke of the Blood Royal, he had the formal style of Most High, Most Mighty, and Illustrious Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and Earl of Sussex.[9]
Orders, decorations and medals
(ribbon bar, as it would look today; British decorations only)
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^Staatshandbücher für das Herzogtums Sachsen-Altenburg (1869), "Herzogliche Sachsen-Ernestinischer Hausorden" p. 18
^M. Wattel; B. Wattel (2009). Les Grand'Croix de la Légion d'honneur de 1805 à nos jours. Titulaires français et étrangers. Paris: Archives & Culture. p. 461. ISBN978-2-35077-135-9.
^Großherzoglich Hessische Ordensliste (in German), Darmstadt: Staatsverlag, 1909, pp. 6, 29 – via hathitrust.org