#saxe-coburg

[septembergold]

[royal-confessions]

“I need a Brigerton-type series for Queen V’s kids where each season focuses on a diff sibling.” - Submitted by Anonymous

[dreamconsumer]

Portrait of Princess Karoline Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (1771-1848), second wife of Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Altenburg. By Josef Grassi and Ludwig Döll.

[adini-nikolaevna]

“Just before the early hours of the morning of the 21st, I felt very uncomfortable and with difficulty aroused Albert… Tried to get to sleep again, but by 4, I got very bad & both Doctors arrived. My beloved Albert was so dear and kind. Locock [the chief obstetrician] said the baby was on the way & everything was all right. We both expressed joy that the event was at hand & I did not feel at all nervous.

Alas! A girl and not a boy as we had so hoped & wished for. We were, I’m afraid, sadly disappointed, but yet our hearts were full of gratitude, for God having brought me safely through my ordeal, & having such a strong healthy child. Dearest Albert hardly left me at all, & was the greatest comfort.”

- Queen Victoria on the birth of her first child, Victoria, Princess Royal.

[royalty-nobility]

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

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

Date: c. 1844

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, 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).

According to an inscription on the reverse this is a copy after an original by Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein (1788-1868). The Royal Collection has Corden's portrait of the sitter's mother, also after Vogel, and his copy of Vigée Le Brun's portrait of the sitter's sister Antoinette. They form part of a set of twelve portraits of the ancestors of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert that were recorded hanging in Queen Victoria’s Bedroom, Windsor Castle, in the mid-nineteenth century in identical gadrooned frames.

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

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[contenteditor]

Astrid of Sweden, Queen of the Belgians. Photographed by Robert Marchand, 1927.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Crown Prince Léopold Philippe Charles Albert Meinrad Hubertus Marie Miguel of Saxe Coburg, later Leopold III, King of the Belgians

Belgian vintage postcard

[romanovsonelastdance]

Romanov relatives: Alexandra of Edinburgh with her son Gottfried of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.

Alexandra was the third daughter of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna and Prince Alfred. Known as 'Sandra,' she was somewhat less-famous than her elders sisters Marie of Romania and Victoria Melita. Gottfried was her eldest child and only surviving son. He married Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark, eldest sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

[loiladadiani]

Alexander III and his niece Victoria of Wales

I like these two historical figures although I admit that for what we know about their personalitie, neither one would be precisely soft and cuddly.

[graceofromanovs]

Princesses Alexandra, Victoria Melita, and Marie of Edinburgh, 1887.

The daughters of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (later Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia. The eldest Princess Marie (right) later became Queen consort of Romania, while the second daughter Princess Victoria Melita (middle) later became Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna of Russia.

They are the granddaughters of Queen Victoria, and Tsar Alexander II of Russia.

Source Royalty In Colour

[roehenstart]

Prince Arthur by George Koberwein.

[royal-confessions]

“Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh, Duchess of Galliera is so underrated with her beauty and her presence.” - Submitted by Anonymous

“Princess beatrice duchess of galliera Queen Marie younger sister is so underrated. I just hate the fact that she's so overshadowed by her older sisters and nobody talks about her beauty enough.” - Submitted by Anonymous

[dreamconsumer]

Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry (1824-1884). Unknown artist.

He was considered as the English government's candidate to be the husband of Queen Isabella II of Spain. This candidacy was due to the UK's strong ties with the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The candidate was a first cousin of Queen Victoria's husband Albert, a nephew of King Leopold of Belgium, and a first cousin of King Ferdinand II of Portugal married to Queen Maria II.

[adini-nikolaevna]

“Knowing that he [Leopold I, King of the Belgians] was dying, he asked that his body be taken to England and buried in Windsor with his first wife [Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales] and their son... His ministers, however, would not allow it.  He was King of the Belgians.  He must be buried among his people.  But they could only control his earthly remains.  Gathered around the bed in accordance with tradition to witness the last moments of their king, they must have known that his heart and mind were in England, when they heard him whisper as life left him, "Charlotte... Charlotte.”

- from Charlotte and Leopold: The True Story of the Original People’s Princess by James Chambers.

[royalwomeninhistory]

Queen Victoria and her first cousin Victoria, Duchess of Nemours, 1852.

oil on canvas

Franz Xavier Winterhalter (1805-1873)

Source: Royal Collection