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Baron Christian Louis and Baroness Cécilie Noghès de Massy, the groom's first cousin and his wife. Jonkvrouw Leticia and Jonkheer Thomas of Brouwer, the groom's first cousin, once removed, and her husband [37] Brice Noghès de Massy, the groom's first cousin, once removed; Antoine Noghès de Massy, the groom's first cousin, once removed
Prince Albert was born on 26 August 1819 at Schloss Rosenau, near Coburg, Germany, the second son of Ernest III, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and his first wife, Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. [2] His first cousin and future wife, Victoria, had been born earlier in the same year with the assistance of the same midwife, Charlotte von Siebold. [3]
Ernest I's second son, Prince Albert (1819–1861), married his first cousin Queen Victoria in 1840 (Victoria's mother was a sister of Ernest I). Prince Albert thus is the progenitor of the United Kingdom's current royal family, called the House of Windsor since 1917. [4]
Ernest (right) with his younger brother Albert and mother Louise, shortly before her exile from court. Ernest, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, was born at Ehrenburg Palace in Coburg on 21 June 1818. [1]
Victoria married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in 1840. Their nine children married into royal and noble families across the continent, earning Victoria the sobriquet "grandmother of Europe". After Albert's death in 1861, Victoria plunged into deep mourning and avoided public appearances.
Ernest I (German: Ernst Anton Karl Ludwig; 2 January 1784 – 29 January 1844) served as the last sovereign duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (as Ernest III) from 1806 to 1826 and the first sovereign duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1826 to 1844. He was the father of Prince Albert, who was the husband of Queen Victoria.
Elizabeth-Ann was married twice. She married firstly in Monaco on 19 January 1974 and divorced on 30 October 1980 [5] Baron Bernard Alexandre Taubert-Natta (Geneva, 2 July 1941 – Geneva, 13 April 1989), and had one son: Jean-Léonard Taubert de Massy, [2] Baron Taubert [2] (b. Geneva, 3 June 1974). He is the godson of Prince Albert II.
Prince Alfred was born on 6 August 1844 at Windsor Castle to the reigning British monarch, Queen Victoria, and her husband, Prince Albert, the second son of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Nicknamed Affie, he was second in the line of succession to the British throne behind his elder brother, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales.