Earlier today, British Royal biographer Robert Hardman was interviewed on BBC News. The topic was of course, Buckingham Palace’s announcement that King Charles’s brother, Andrew, would officially lose his titles.
Hardman pointed out that in 1917, one prince lost his titles for supporting Germany: HH The Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale.
Robert, the Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, was one of three British princes who lost their titles with the Titles Deprivation Act.
HRH Prince Charles Edward, Duke of Albany (UK title)
HRH The Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (German title)
HH Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale
HRH Prince Ernst August of Hanover. He was the de jure King of Hanover.
HRH Prince Ernest Augustus of Cumberland
HRH Prince Ernst August of Hanover and HRH The Duke of Brunswick und Lüneburg
All three of these British princes lived in Germany. The Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and the Duke of Brunswick u Lüneburg were sovereigns.
The three men were close relations of King George V. The Duke of Cumberland was his uncle, as Prince Ernst August was married to Princess Thyra of Denmark, Queen Alexandra’s youngest sister.
The Dukes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Brunswick-Lüneburg were the King’s first cousins.
Carl Eduard (Charles Edward) was the posthumous son of HRH The Duke of Albany, the youngest son of Queen Victoria. His older sister was HRH Princess Alice of Albany, later HRH Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone. The Duke of Brunswick was the eldest son of the Duke of Cumberland. In 1913, he married Kaiser Wilhelm II’s only daughter, Princess Viktoria Luise.
The Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale was the only son of King Georg V of Hanover (born as HRH Prince George of Cumberland, who was Queen Victoria’s first cousin. The Duke of Cumberland was King Edward VII’s brother-in-law and his second cousin.
When William IV, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and King of Hanover, died in June 1837, he was succeeded in Britain by his niece, HRH Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent, and the Hanoverian throne went to the next in line, William’s brother, HRH Prince Ernest August, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, who succeeded as King Ernst August. His son Prince George became HRH Crown Prince Georg of Hanover,
The Hanovers retained their British titles as they were descendants of King George III in the male line.
The Titles Deprivation Act removed Charles Edward and Ernest August (Jr)’s HRH and the Duke of Cumberland’s HH. The two British peerages, the Duke of Albany and the Duke of Cumberland & Teviotdale, were also removed.
Several years ago, I wrote a detailed article about the Titles Deprivation Act.
https://royalmusingsblogspotcom.blogspot.com/2012/04/titles-deprivation-act-of-1917.html
https://royalmusingsblogspotcom.blogspot.com/2014/03/carl-eduard-duke-of-saxe-coburg-dead-at.html
https://royalmusingsblogspotcom.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-house-of-hanover-and-its.html
https://royalmusingsblogspotcom.blogspot.com/2015/12/hanover-brides-and-bridal-crown.html
This article includes the Letters Patent that gave the younger Ernst August the HRH in the UK, when he was entitled to the HH.
https://royalmusingsblogspotcom.blogspot.com/2019/01/what-was-george-v-thinking.html
