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
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
Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, was a reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, one of the ruling Thuringian dukes of the House of Wettin. As progenitor of a line of Coburg princes who, in the 19t
Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
…on 17 August 1786 in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and was named Marie Louise Victoire. 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. One of her brothers was Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and another brother, Leopold…
Portrait by Johann Heinrich Schröder, 1800