#Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

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Victoria: I failed my safety training course today.

Edward: Why, what happened?

Victoria: Well, one of the questions was "In case of a fire, what steps would you take?"

Edward: And?

Victoria: Well, apparently "F***ING LARGE ONES" isn't an acceptable answer.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and her grandmother Victoria, Duchess of Kent, 1860.

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Princess Alice VA CI (Alice Maud Mary; 25 April 1843 – 14 December 1878) was Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine from 13 June 1877 until her death in 1878 as the wife of Grand Duke Louis IV.

She was the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

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.

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Historical Royal/Noble Women of Medieval England (1/?)

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchess of Kent and Strathearn (17 August 1786 – 16 March 1861)

[royal-confessions]

“Queen Fredericka of Greece resembles her great-great-great grandmother Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld very well! They both had thick brows and beautiful large eyes. Also that sweet smile.” - Submitted by krasivaa

[catherinetheprincessofwales]

Portrait of Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1781 - 1860) painted by William Corden, the Younger (1819 - 1900) at the request of Queen Victoria. It is based on the original painting of Princess Juliane by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun (c. 1796). The Corden portrait now hangs in Apartment 1A, Kensington Palace. The official residence of The Prince and Princess of Wales. It is part of the Royal Collection.

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Princess Charlotte of Wales (daughter of George IV and Caroline of Brunswick, not Prince William and Kate Middleton) married Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, future King of the Belgians and uncle to Queen Victoria, in London on 2 May 1816. As the heiress presumptive to the throne and the woman who should have been Queen, if not for her untimely death the following year, her wedding was the social event of the decade and she needed a dress fit for a Princess in order to match the occasion. She had one.

In this royal fashion history documentary from History Calling we look at one of the earliest surviving royal wedding dresses in British history which was recently on display in the Queen’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace. Despite the increasing popularity of white wedding dresses at the time of her nuptials, Charlotte wore silver silk and satin overlaid with lace and embellished with shell motifs. We’ll trace her dress’s journey from its creation by the Princess’s dressmaker, Mrs Triud of Bolton Street, to the day Charlotte wore it, to what happened to it after her death and how it came to be in its present home. By comparing photographs of the dress as seen today to historical descriptions and a picture of it from 1816, we’ll see how well the current gown matches early 19th century fashions, examine how much of the original garment is left and ask whether this unique piece of dress history can really be called the wedding dress of Princess Charlotte.

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Princess Sophia of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1778-1835), later Countess von Mensdorff-Pouilly

Artist: William Corden the Younger (English, 1819-1900)

Date: About 1844

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, London, United Kingdom

Description

Princess Sophia Fredericka Caroline Louise of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1778–1835) was the eldest daughter of Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf. In 1804, she married Emanuel, Count of Mensdorff-Pouilly. She was the sister of the Duchess of Kent and King Leopold I of Belgium, and aunt of both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. In 1830, she published a collection of fairy tales, Mährchen und Erzählungen (Tales and Stories).

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Do you know anything about anna feodorovna? There's even less info about her than her sister in law Elizabeth. But she seems to be an interesting woman.

Hi! Helen Rappaport is currently at work on a biography of Anna Feodorovna. She seems to be a controversial historian around the Romanov “fandom,” but I am personally very excited to read the new book—as you said, there isn’t much information available about Anna Feodorovna. In the meantime, I will give you what I can: Anna was born Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, so she was sister to King Leopold I of the Belgians and aunt to both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who even had a portrait of her at (I think)Kensington Palace. Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was small, and by royal standards, poor, but when Catherine the Great’s adjutant went on the hunt for a bride for Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich, he fell ill there and was tended to by Coburg court doctor Baron Stockmar; Stockmar pointed the Russian general in the direction of the Coburg princesses, whose parents were very enthusiastic about the possibility of such an advantageous match. So, Juliane traveled to St. Petersburg with her mother and sisters, and Konstantin ultimately (albeit unwillingly—he did not want to get married in the first place) chose her as his bride. He referred to her as “the little monkey” and remarked that “it dances prettily.” The marriage took place, although the new Grand Duchess Anna was only 14, but it was a VERY unhappy union. Konstantin was jealous of his wife’s popularity, and he was was physically and emotionally abusive. He even forbade her to leave her room! Anna was close to her sister-in-law, Elizaveta Alexeievna, and the two girls supported each other through their difficult marriages. After her father-in-law became emperor, Anna pleaded illness and returned to Coburg for treatment, but she had no intention of returning to Russia… and she did not. She wanted a divorce, but the Russian court refused, and she began having romantic not-so-secret affairs; she was still legally married, but she wanted to be a mother, and she had two illegitimate children. During the Napoleonic wars, Alexander I tried to bring about a reconciliation between Konstantin and Anna, but the grand duchess adamantly refused to go back to the man who had made her life so miserable, and the marriage was finally annulled after almost 20 years of separation. Konstantin remarried, morganatically, to a Polish countess, but Anna never married again. She lived the rest of her life in Germany, where she was devoted to charity work and musical societies. That’s about all the info I have, but I think it’s safe to say that she was a strong, brave woman who was far ahead of her time.

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Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, later Duchess of Kent (1786-1861). By Herbert Luther Smith.

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Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Portrait by George Dawe

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (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 Charles, Prince of Leiningen (1763–1814), from 1814, she served as regent of the Principality during the minority of her son from her first marriage, Carl, until her second wedding in 1818 to Prince Edward, fourth son of King George III. The Duchess of Kent was extremely protective, and raised Victoria largely isolated from other children under the so-called "Kensington System".

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when: royally fun facts

They may not be fun, but some of them are made-up. Made up facts are in italics.

Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia

(Karolina Augusta's great-great-grandmother)

Is the granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia

Is the mother of Alexandrine, Queen Consort of Denmark

Is the mother of Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Is the mother of Cecilie, Crown Princess of Germany

Following the death of her husband, had a illegitimate son with her personal secretary

Three of her brothers were murdered by the Bolsheviks during the Russian revolution

Princess Karola of Urach

(Karolina Augusta's great-grandmother)

Karola’s father, Wilhelm Karl, 2nd Duke of Urach, was briefly elected as the King of Lithuania in 1918.

Princess Karola of Urach was the first queen consort of Mecklenburg, and also the last Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

Karola was the grand-niece of Empress Elisabeth ‘Sisi’ of Austria.

Karola was the half-niece of Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians.

Karola half-first cousins include Leopold III of Belgium, and Marie José, the last Queen Consort of Italy.

Karola and Mary of Teck, Queen of the United Kingdom, both descend from morganatic branches of the House of Württemberg. Karola and Mary were third cousins as great-great-granddaughters of Friedrich II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg.

Karola was a Roman Catholic and retained her faith following her marriage to Heinrich Ludwig, though their children were brought up in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg.

Duchess Thyra of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

(Karolina Augusta's grandmother)

Thyra’s father, Grand Duke Friedrich Franz IV of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, was overthrown by her father-in-law, King Heinrich Ludwig of Mecklenburg

Thyra was the first Crown Princess of Mecklenburg (1939 - 1954)

Thyra was the second Queen of Mecklenburg (1954 - 1980)

Thyra was the niece of Alexandrine, Queen of Denmark (1912 - 1947)

Thyra was the first cousin of Frederik IX of Denmark (1947 - 1972)

Thyra was the niece of Cecilie, Crown Princess of Germany (1905 - 1951)

Thyra was the first cousin of Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (1951 - 1994)

Thyra was the niece of Marie Louise, Margravine of Baden (1928 - 1929)

Thyra was the first cousin of Berthold, Margrave of Baden (1929 - 1963), who married Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (the older sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh)

Thyra was the niece of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick (1913 - 1918) and head of the House of Hannover (1923 - 1953)

Thyra was the first cousin of Ernst August, Hereditary Prince of Brunswick, Prince of Hanover (1953 - 1987)

Thyra was the first cousin of Frederica, Queen of Greece (1947 - 1964) (the mother of King Constantine II of Greece and Queen Sofia of Spain)

Princess Eleonora of Leiningen

(Karolina Augusta's mother)

Descends from all three children of Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld: Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen; Princess Feodora of Leiningen; and Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

Queen Karolina Augusta I of Mecklenburg

Is the first female ruler in Mecklenburg’s 900 year history.

Will be the final ruler from the House of Mecklenburg which will eventually bring an end to the House’s status as the longest still reigning house in European history.

Is descended from both Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, and of King Christian IX of Denmark.

Has been the youngest monarch in the world since 1992.

Has 15 godparents:

HRH Princess Cecilie Auguste, Duchess of Ludwigslust (paternal aunt)

HRH Princess Marie Anastasia, Duchess of Grevesmühlen (paternal aunt)

HRH Princess Benedikte of Denmark (paternal second cousin once removed)

HRH Princess Alexandra of Hanover, Princess of Leiningen (maternal aunt-by-marriage)

HSH Princess Margarita of Hohenlohe-Oehringen, Princess of Leiningen (maternal aunt-by-marriage)

HM Silvia, Queen of Sweden (family friend)

HM Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (paternal and maternal second cousin twice removed)

HRH Princess Astrid of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este (paternal third cousin once removed)

HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (paternal third cousin once removed and family friend)

HRH Prince Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark (paternal third cousin)

HH Prince Harald of Denmark (paternal first cousin once removed)

HSH Prince Hermann Friedrich of Leiningen (maternal first cousin once removed)

HRH Prince Felipe, Prince of Asturias (paternal third cousin)

HH Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (distant cousin and family friend)

HSH Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein (distant cousin and family friend)

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Royal historical figures that I'll include in my fanfic, Aikatsu: The Stars of Legend (they debut in Season 2)

Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom (formerly known as Princess Alexandra of Denmark)

Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia (formerly known as Princess Dagmar of Denmark)

Crown Princess Thyra of Hanover (formerly known as Princess Thyra of Denmark)

Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

King Charles XIII/Karl XIII of Sweden and Norway (formerly known as Prince Charles, Duke of Södermanland)

King Charles XIV John/Karl XIV Johan of Sweden and Norway (formerly known as Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte)

King George IV of the United Kingdom

Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

As for why they're there? You'll see...

[famousinuniverse]

Queen Victoria

Former Queen of the United Kingdom

Queen Victoria

Former Queen of the United Kingdom

Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days, which was longer than any of her predecessors, is known as the Victorian era. 

Born: May 24, 1819, Kensington Palace, London, United Kingdom

Died: January 22, 1901, Osborne, East Cowes, United Kingdom

Children: Edward VII, Victoria, Princess Royal, MORE

Grandchildren: George V, Wilhelm II, Alexandra Feodorovna, MORE

Spouse: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (m. 1840–1861)

Grandparents: George III, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, MORE

Parents: Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Queen Victoria's Coronet, designed by Prince Albert 💙 Victoria and Albert Museum, London

[royal-confessions]

“Victoria, Duchess of Kent, and Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother, are both "mrs. smart-ass". They think their daughters are too young to rule the country. Oh God, just fuck off and let your daughters reign, they are way more better than you!” - Submitted by Anonymous

“Queen Mum and Princess Victoria, Duchess of Kent, are ageist, ancient, and selfish. Just enjoy your pension time instead of lecturing your daughters what to do..” - Submitted by Anonymous

[catherinetheprincessofwales]

Portrait of Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1781 - 1860) painted by William Corden, the Younger (1819 - 1900) at the request of Queen Victoria. It is based on the original painting of Princess Juliane by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun (c. 1796). The Corden portrait now hangs in Apartment 1A, Kensington Palace. The official residence of The Prince and Princess of Wales. It is part of the Royal Collection.

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Siblings (02/?): The Children of Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Carl, The Prince of Leiningen, Prime Minister of the German Empire from August 5th, 1848 to September 6th, 1848

Princess Feodora of Leiningen, The Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent, The Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland