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They toured the colonies of the British Empire in the Caribbean, South Africa and Australia, and visited Norfolk, Virginia, as well as South America, the Mediterranean, Egypt, and East Asia.
Between Melbourne and Sydney, Dalton recorded a sighting of the Flying Dutchman, a mythical ghost ship.
When they returned to Britain, Queen Victoria complained that her grandsons could not speak French or German, and so they spent six months in Lausanne in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to learn another language.
After Lausanne, the brothers were separated ; Albert Victor attended Trinity College, Cambridge, while George continued in the Royal Navy.
He travelled the world, visited many areas of the British Empire, and served actively until his last command in 1891 – 1892.
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