Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

About Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Who is it?: Princess
Birth Day: August 17, 1786
Birth Place: Coburg, Germany, German
Burial: 25 March 1861 St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle 1 August 1861 Duchess of Kent's Mausoleum, Frogmore, Berkshire
Spouse: Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen (m. 1803; died 1814) Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (m. 1818; died 1820)
Issue: Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen Feodora, Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg Victoria of the United Kingdom
Full name: Full name Marie Luise Viktoria Marie Luise Viktoria
House: Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Father: Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Mother: Countess Augusta of Reuss-Ebersdorf

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was born on August 17, 1786 in Coburg, Germany, German, is Princess. Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg Saalfed was a German Princess and later Duchess of Kent and Strathearn. She was the mother of the famous Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. Born in Coburg, in the Holy Empire of the German Nation, to Franz Frederick Anton, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Countess Augusta of Reuss-Ebersdorf, she was married to Prince Emich Carl at the early age of seventeen. Carl, however, passed away after eleven years of their marriage, after which she served as regent of the Principality of Leiningen. A few years after Carl’s death, she got married to Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn. A year later, she gave birth to their daughter, Princess Victoria, who later became the famous British monarch Queen Victoria. Prince Edward passed away shortly. After the death of her father-in-law King George III, her daughter Victoria was the third in line to become the successor to the throne, after her uncles Frederick, Duke of York, and William, Duke of Clarence. Victoria therefore decided to stay in England, instead of going back to her homeland, Germany, in order to help Victoria ascend to the throne. Eventually, her daughter ascended the throne at the age of 18. Princess Victoria has been portrayed in a few TV series such as ‘Edward the Seventh’, a British drama series that aired during the 1970s. She has also been portrayed in the British-American drama film ‘The Young Victoria’.
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As per our current Database, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld has been died on 16 March 1861(1861-03-16) (aged 74)\nFrogmore House, Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom.

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When Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld die, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was 74 years old.

Popular As Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Occupation Historical Personalities
Age 74 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born August 17, 1786 (Coburg, Germany, German)
Birthday August 17
Town/City Coburg, Germany, German
Nationality German

🌙 Zodiac

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld’s zodiac sign is Virgo. According to astrologers, Virgos are always paying attention to the smallest details and their deep sense of humanity makes them one of the most careful signs of the zodiac. Their methodical approach to life ensures that nothing is left to chance, and although they are often tender, their heart might be closed for the outer world. This is a sign often misunderstood, not because they lack the ability to express, but because they won’t accept their feelings as valid, true, or even relevant when opposed to reason. The symbolism behind the name speaks well of their nature, born with a feeling they are experiencing everything for the first time.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was born in the Year of the Horse. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Horse love to roam free. They’re energetic, self-reliant, money-wise, and they enjoy traveling, love and intimacy. They’re great at seducing, sharp-witted, impatient and sometimes seen as a drifter. Compatible with Dog or Tiger.

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Biography/Timeline

1786

Victoria was born in Coburg on 17 August 1786 in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. She was the fourth daughter and seventh child of Franz Frederick Anton, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Countess Augusta of Reuss-Ebersdorf. One of her brothers was Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and another brother, Leopold, married, in 1816, Princess Charlotte of Wales, the only legitimate daughter of the Future King George IV, and heiress presumptive to the British throne.

1803

On 21 December 1803 at Coburg, a young Victoria married (as his second wife) Charles, Prince of Leiningen (1763–1814), whose first wife, Henrietta of Reuss-Ebersdorf, had been her aunt. The couple had two children, Prince Carl, born on 12 September 1804, and Princess Feodora of Leiningen, born on 7 December 1807.

1818

The death in 1817 of Princess Charlotte of Wales, the wife of Victoria's brother Leopold, prompted a succession crisis. With Parliament offering them a financial incentive, three of Charlotte's uncles, sons of George III, were prepared to marry. One of them, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767–1820) proposed to Victoria and she accepted. The couple were married on 29 May 1818 at Amorbach and on 11 July 1818 at Kew, a joint ceremony at which Edward's brother, the Duke of Clarence, later King william IV, married Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen. Shortly after the marriages, the Kents moved to Germany, where the cost of living would be cheaper. Soon after, Victoria became pregnant, and the Duke and Duchess, determined to have their child born in England, raced back, arriving at Dover on 23 April 1819, and moved into Kensington Palace, where she soon gave birth to a daughter, Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent.

1820

The Duke of Kent died suddenly of pneumonia in January 1820, six days before his father, King George III. His widow the Duchess had little cause to remain in the United Kingdom, since she did not speak the language and had a palace at home in Coburg where she could live cheaply on the revenues of her first husband. However, the British succession at this time was far from assured – of the three brothers older than Edward, the new king, George IV, and the Duke of York were both estranged from their wives, who were in any case past childbearing age. The third brother, the Duke of Clarence, had yet to produce any surviving children with his wife. The Duchess of Kent decided that she would do better by gambling on her daughter's accession than by living quietly in Coburg and, having inherited her second husband's debts, sought support from the British government. After the death of Edward and his father, the young Princess Victoria was still only third in line for the throne, and Parliament was not inclined to support yet more impoverished royalty.

1830

Conroy had high hopes for his patroness and himself: he envisaged Victoria succeeding the throne at a young age, thus needing a regency government, which, following the Regency Act 1830, would be headed by the princess's mother (who had already served in that capacity in Germany following the death of her first husband). As the personal secretary of the Duchess, Conroy would be the veritable "power behind the throne". He had not counted on william IV surviving long enough for Victoria to succeed to the throne as an adult and consequently, while cultivating her mother, had shown little consideration for Victoria. When the latter succeeded, Conroy risked having no influence over her. He tried to force Victoria to agree to make him her personal secretary once she succeeded, but this plan, too, backfired. Victoria resented her mother's support for Conroy's schemes and being pressured by her to sign a paper declaring Conroy her personal secretary. The result was that when Victoria became queen, she relegated the Duchess to separate accommodation, away from her own.

1831

In 1831, with George IV dead and the new king, william IV, over 60 and still without legitimate issue, the young princess's status as heir presumptive and the Duchess's prospective place as regent led to major increases in British state income for the Kents. A contributing factor was Leopold's designation as King of the Belgians, upon which he surrendered his British income. In any case, the idea of having the British heir presumptive supported by a foreign sovereign would clearly have been unacceptable.

1836

The Duchess relied heavily on Sir John Conroy, whom she engaged as her private secretary. Perhaps because of Conroy's influence, the relationship between the Duchess's household and King william IV soon soured, with the Duchess regarding the king as an oversexed oaf. As far as she dared, the Duchess denied the King access to his niece. She further offended the King by taking rooms in Kensington Palace that the King had reserved for himself. Both before and during William's reign, she snubbed his illegitimate children, the FitzClarences. All of this led to a scene at a dinner in 1836 when the King, again feeling offended by the Duchess and Conroy, expressed the hope that he would live long enough to render a regency for Victoria unnecessary, and regretted the influence exercised on the heir presumptive by those who surrounded her.

1861

The Duchess died at 09:30 on 16 March 1861, aged 74 years. She is buried in the Duchess of Kent's Mausoleum at Frogmore, Windsor Home Park, near to the royal residence Windsor Castle.

1995

There has been some speculation, not only that the Duchess and Conroy were lovers, but that the Duchess had earlier been unfaithful to the Duke of Kent and that Victoria was not his daughter. This has been promoted most prominently by william and Malcolm Potts' 1995 book Queen Victoria's Gene. Those who promote this position point to the absence of porphyria in the British Royal Family among the descendants of Queen Victoria - it had been widespread before her; and haemophilia, unknown in either the Duke's or Duchess's family, had arisen among the best documented families in history. Victoria herself was puzzled by the emergence of the disease, given its absence in either family.

2001

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was portrayed by Alison Leggatt in the ATV drama Edward the Seventh, by Penelope Wilton in the 2001 television serial Victoria and Albert, by Miranda Richardson in the 2009 film The Young Victoria, and by Catherine Flemming in the 2016 ITV series Victoria.

2013

In practice, this would have required the Duchess's lover to be haemophiliac – an extremely unlikely survival, given the poor state of Medicine at the time, or the Duchess herself to be a carrier of haemophilia, since haemophilia is X-linked, meaning that her mother would have been a carrier, if haemophilia was not otherwise previously expressed in the Duchess's parents. Actual evidence to support this theory has not arisen, and haemophilia occurs spontaneously through mutation in at least 30% of cases. Queen Victoria has also been said by some to have a strong resemblance to her Hanoverian relatives, particularly George IV.

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