Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen
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Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Queen of Hanover from 26 June 1830 to 20 June 1837 as the wife of King William IV.
Portrait by Sir William Beechey, c. 1831
Elisabethenburg Palace, the residence of the reigning Dukes of Saxe-Meiningen
Bushy House in Teddington, west London
Portrait of Queen Adelaide painted by John Simpson in 1832
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. As
Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen
…the Reform Act 1832. She treated her niece, the future Queen Victoria, with kindness despite the hostility between William and Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent. After William's death in 1837, Adelaide became the queen dowager. She suffered from chronic illness and spent her later years moving between residences…
Portrait by George Dawe, c. 1818
Victoria as a child, c. 1795
Portrait by Franz Joseph Zoll, 1818
Arms of the Duchess of Kent and Strathearn, at Royal Tunbridge Wells