Carte-de-visite head and shoulders photograph of Duke Bernhard III of Saxe-Meiningen, in a vignette format. The subject is shown in three quarter view, facing towards the left of the image, with his head turned towards the viewer. He has short fair, wavy hair and a small moustache. He is wearing military uniform with a mandarin collar, epaulettes and decorated with a double row of gilt buttons up the front.  

Bernhard was the eldest son of Duke Georg II of Saxe-Meiningen and his first wife Princess Charlotte Frederica of Prussia. In 1878 he married Princess Charlotte of Prussia and the couple had one daughter, Princess Feodora.
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