List of titles and honours of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn

This is a list of the titles and honours held by Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, a senior officer of the British Army, Governor General of Canada, and member of the British Royal Family as third son of Queen Victoria.

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn

Name

On 22 June 1850 Prince Arthur was baptised in the Chapel at Buckingham Palace with the Christian names Arthur 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

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 of 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)

British

The Duke was Bailiff of Egle from 1894[27]

Campaign medals

Long service medals

Foreign

Variant of the arms of Prince Arthur as knight of the Spanish branch of the Golden Fleece and the Order of Charles III

Military

Ranks

The Duke of Connaught in Field Marshal's uniform, 1915

Personal Aide-de-Camp

Colonel of the Regiment

The Duke of Connaught as Colonel of the Scots Guards, 1890

Honorary Colonel

Colonel-in-Chief

Foreign military appointments

Civil

Privy Counsellor

Others

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