Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Overview
Mary Louise Victoria, born 17 August 1786, was the fourth daughter and seventh child of Franz Frederick Anton, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Franz Frederick Anton, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Franz Frederick Anton, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld , was a duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. He is a patrilineal ancestor of Elizabeth II, Albert II of Belgium and Simeon B...
, and Countess Augusta of Reuss-Ebersdorf.
On 21 December 1803 at Coburg
Coburg
Coburg is a town located on the Itz River in Bavaria, Germany. Its 2005 population was 42,015. Long one of the Thuringian states of the Wettin line, it joined with Bavaria by popular vote in 1920...
, she married (as his second wife) Charles, Prince of Leiningen
Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen
Emich Carl, Prince of Leiningen was a German nobleman.He was born at Dürckheim, the fourth child and only son of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hartenburg by his wife Countess Christiane Wilhelmine Luise of Solms-Rödelheim and Assenheim...
(1763–1814), whose first wife, Henrietta of Reuss-Ebersdorf, was her aunt.
On 29 May 1818 at Amorbach
Amorbach
Amorbach is a town in the Miltenberg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany, with some 4,100 inhabitants .- Location :...
(and again on 11 July 1818 at Kew Palace
Kew Palace
Kew Palace is a British Royal Palace in Kew Gardens on the banks of the Thames up river from London. There have been at least four Palaces at Kew, and three have been known as Kew Palace; the first building may not have been known as Kew as no records survive other than the words of another...
) she married Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767–1820).
The Duke of Kent died suddenly of pneumonia in January 1820, a few days before his father, King George III.
