Prince Alfred (1780–1782) was the fourteenth child and the ninth and youngest son of King George III of Great Britain and Ireland and his queen, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Alfred was baptised by Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the Great Council Chamber at St James's Palace on 21 October 1780. His godparents were his elder siblings George, Prince of Wales; Prince Frederick; and Charlotte, Princess Royal. Alfred was a delicate child. He suffered from "eruptions" on his face and, throughout his life, a cough. In 1782, Alfred became unwell and died after his inoculation against the smallpox virus. Although the household did not go into mourning (it was not prescribed for royal children under seven), his parents took the loss harshly. Alfred's early death, along with that of his brother Prince Octavius six months later, deeply distressed the royal family. In his later bouts of madness, King George imagined conversations with both of his youngest sons.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1886:
The wedding of Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom took place in the White House, the only time a U.S. president used that building for the ceremony. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Cleveland
1953:
Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_of_Elizabeth_II
1967:
Benno Ohnesorg, a German university student, was killed in West Berlin while protesting the visit of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran; the anarchist militant 2 June Movement was later named after the incident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_June_Movement
1983:
After an emergency landing due to an in-flight fire, 23 passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 were killed when a flashover occurred as the aircraft's doors opened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_797
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
spaghetti: 1. (countable, uncountable) A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings. 2. (by extension, countable, uncountable) A dish that has spaghetti (sense 1) as a main part of it, such as spaghetti bolognese. 3. (by extension, countable) Denoting Italianness. 4. (derogatory, informal) An Italian person. 5. (film) Short for spaghetti western (“a motion picture depicting a story of cowboys and desperadoes set in the American Old West, but produced by an Italian-based company and filmed in Europe, notably in Italy”). 6. (by extension, uncountable, informal, often attributively) Something physically resembling spaghetti (sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled. 7. (electrical engineering) Electrical insulating tubing or electrical wiring. 8. (road transport) Roads forming a complex junction, especially one with multiple levels on a motorway. 9. (uncountable, figuratively, informal) Something confusing or intricate. 10. (programming, derogatory, informal) Short for spaghetti code (“unstructured or poorly structured program source code, especially code with many GOTO statements or their equivalent”). 11. (transitive) 12. (humorous) To serve (someone) spaghetti (noun sense 1). 13. To cause (someone or something) to become, or appear to become, longer and thinner; to stretch. 14. To cause (something) to become tangled. 15. (intransitive) 16. (humorous) To eat spaghetti (noun sense 1). 17. To become, or appear to become, longer and thinner. 18. To become tangled. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spaghetti
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Is your heart far away, Or with mine beating? When false things are brought low, And swift things have grown slow, Feigning like froth shall go, Faith be for aye. --Thomas Hardy https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardy