Prince Alberto | |||||
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![]() Portrait of Prince Alberto by an unidentified artist | |||||
Born | Royal Palace, Naples | 2 May 1792||||
Died | 25 December 1798 On board HMS Vanguard | (aged 6)||||
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House | Bourbon-Two Sicilies | ||||
Father | Ferdinand IV of Naples | ||||
Mother | Maria Carolina of Austria |
Prince Alberto of Naples and Sicily (Alberto Lodovico Maria Filipo Gaetano; 2 May 1792 – 25 December 1798) was a Prince of Naples and Sicily as the youngest son of King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and his wife Maria Carolina of Austria. He died aged six near Palermo, Sicily, during a storm on board HMS Vanguard, a British Royal Navy warship, whilst his family was fleeing, under the care of Admiral Lord Nelson, from Napoleonic troops approaching Naples.