The Sailor Suit

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Queen Victoria of Great Britain decided to have her four-year-old son, Albert Edward, The Prince of Wales wear a scaled down version of the sailor suit of the British Navy.
Prince Edward wore his sailor suit on the Royal Family's visit to the Channel Islands in 1846. His portrait was painted at the same time.
British boys began wearing sailor suits in the 1860s.
Prince Albert Edward began dressing his own sons, Albert Victor and George, in sailor suits in the 1870s.

Prince Albert Edward painted by Franz Xaver Winterhalter in 1846
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Prince Albert Victor and Prince George
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"Smartly dressed in a sailor suit, dark stockings and ankle boots, her obedient, princely boy would be subjected to sit upon a boudoir chair in the secluded smoke-filled bed chamber beside her untouched dinner tray and read a column or two from the tedious pages of a recent periodical." From the novel Governey by Constance Eve

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Tsarevich Alexis of Russia
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Prince Wilhelm, Prince Louis Ferdinand. Prince Hubertus, and Prince Friedrich of Germany
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Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
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Prince Harald of Norway
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Prince Olav of Norway
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Sailors of the Norwegian navy in 1930s
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Prince Franz, Prince Ernst, and Prince Rudolf of Austria
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Prince Nicholas and Prince Felix of Russia
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Prince Arthur Frederick of the United Kingdom
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A seated sailor
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Prince Jaime of Spain
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Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark with his brother Prince Knud.
This Frederik became King Frederik IX of Denmark.
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Prince Waldemar of Prussia
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Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia
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