Marie of Württemberg (17 September 1799 – 24 September 1860) was a daughter of Duke Alexander of Württemberg and Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

Marriage

In Coburg on 23 December 1832, Marie became the second wife of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who was also her uncle (as her mother Antoinette was Ernest's sibling). They had no children.

She was therefore the stepmother of Prince Albert

Prince Albert

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, husband of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom

Victoria of the United Kingdom

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. She was a godmother of Albert and Victoria's eldest son Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom

Edward VII of the United Kingdom

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), although she was not physically present at his baptism.

Ancestry