Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Mother of Queen Victoria
Who was Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld?
Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (Marie Louise Victoire; 17 August 1786 – 16 March 1861), later Princess of Leiningen and subsequently Duchess of Kent and Strathearn, was a German princess and the mother of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. As the widow of Emich Karl, Prince of Leiningen, from 1814, she served as regent of the principality during the minority of her son from her first marriage, Karl, until her second wedding in 1818 to Prince Edward, fourth son of George III. Victoria was born in Coburg on in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and was named Marie Louise Victoire.
One of her brothers was Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and another brother, Leopold, future king of the Belgians, married, in 1816, Princess Charlotte of Wales, the only legitimate daughter of the future King George IV, and heiress presumptive to the British throne.
Historical significance
Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, later Princess of Leiningen and subsequently Duchess of Kent and Strathearn, was a German princess and the mother of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. She was the fourth daughter and seventh child of Franz Frederick Anton, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, by his second wife, Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf.
