Lord Albert, Duke of Kent (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was Duke of Kent from 23 January 1901 until his death in 1910 and a high profile Whig politician.
The eldest son of Princess Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Albert was related to royalty throughout Europe. He was largely excluded from political power, becoming Prime Minister his main dream, and came to personify the fashionable, leisured elite. He travelled throughout America performing ceremonial public duties, and represented America on visits abroad as foreign secretary. His tours of France in 1860 and the Kingdom of Prussia in 1875 were popular successes, but despite public approval, his reputation as a playboy noble soured his relationship with his mother.
As a Duke, Albert played a role in the modernisation of the Anglo-American Home Fleet, as Secretary of Defence, and the reorganisation of the British Army after the 1902. He reinstituted traditional ceremonies as public displays and broadened the range of people with whom nobility socialised. He fostered good relations between the UKA and other European countries, especially France, for which he was popularly called "Peacemaker", and his relationship with his nephew, the Prussian King Wilhelm II, was Great. He died in 1910 in the midst of a constitutional crisis that he caused. His son, George succeeded him as Duke.