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Victoria was born in Coburg on 17 August 1786 in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and was named Marie Louise Victoire. [2] She was the fourth daughter and seventh child of Franz Frederick Anton, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf.
Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld: 4. Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld: 9. Duchess Sophie Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel: 2. Ferdinand, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry: 10. Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf: 5. Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf: 11. Countess Karoline Ernestine of Erbach-Schönberg: 1.
Victoria, Princess Royal (Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa; [1] 21 November 1840 – 5 August 1901) was German Empress and Queen of Prussia as the wife of Frederick III, German Emperor. She was the eldest child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and was created Princess Royal in 1841.
Emich Carl, Prince of Leiningen (27 September 1763 – 4 July 1814) was the reigning Fürst of the Principality of Leiningen.After his death, his widow, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, married a son of George III of the United Kingdom and her only child from that marriage was Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom.
As a son of Queen Victoria's deceased husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Victoria Melita's father was in the line of succession to Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the sovereign German duchy ruled by Albert's elder brother, Ernest II, until his death in 1893.
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 ...
Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: 4. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: 9. Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg: 2. Edward VII of the United Kingdom: 10. Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn: 5. Victoria of the United Kingdom: 11. Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld: 1. Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom: 12.
In 1818, the Duke of Kent married Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, a widowed German princess with two children—Carl (1804–1856) and Feodora (1807–1872)—by her first marriage to Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen. Her brother Leopold was Princess Charlotte's widower and later the first king of Belgium.