Charles Edward, 2nd Duke of Albany, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1884-1954) and his wife Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein. Charlie became Duke of Saxe-Coburg in 1899. Prince Alfred's only son had died and although the succession naturally passed to Prince Arthur and then his son, they declined and so Charlie was was uprooted from Eton and England at the age of thirteen and sent to Germany, despite hardly knowing the language. At the Kaiser's suggestion he was sent to Lichterfield military academy at Potsdam and he went on from there to Bonn. He inherited the Coburg title a week after his sixteenth birthday. Unavoidably, during World War I, he became an enemy of the country of his birth and had all his British titles and peerages removed. In 1935, he became a member of the Nazi party and was sent to Britain as an envoy to promote Anglo-German relations. He played host to the Duke of Windsor during his tour of Germany in 1937. Pictured here with his wife (far right) in the grounds of the royal residence of Saxe-Coburg.