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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.
In March 1861, Victoria's mother died, with Victoria at her side. Through reading her mother's papers, Victoria discovered that her mother had loved her deeply; [111] she was heart-broken, and blamed Conroy and Lehzen for "wickedly" estranging her from her mother. [112]
Feodora maintained a lifelong correspondence with her half-sister Victoria and was granted an allowance of £300 (equivalent to £33,458 in 2023) whenever she could visit Britain. [6] She was a member of the royal party at Victoria's coronation in 1838. [7] Sculpture on the tomb of Princess Feodora of Leiningen
Queen Victoria's mother, Victoria, Duchess of Kent, was not known to have a family history of the disease, although it is possible that she was a carrier, but among her three children only Victoria received the mutated copy. Queen Victoria's father, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, was not a haemophiliac, but the mutation may have arisen as a ...
An 1848 etching featuring Queen Victoria and Prince Albert decorating an evergreen tree influenced how people decorate for ... Queen Victoria’s mother, Marie Louise Victoria the Duchess of Kent ...
Lady Flora Elizabeth Rawdon-Hastings (11 February 1806 – 5 July 1839) was a British aristocrat and lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent. [1] Her death in 1839 was the subject of a court scandal that gave the Queen a negative image.
In fact, Felipe is also related to Queen Victoria through his mother, Queen Sofia of Spain, as well, via Queen Victoria’s eldest daughter, Victoria, Princess Royal, two times over. On her mother ...
The controversial Koh-i-Noor diamond is at the heart of the Queen Mother's crown ... Glittering with 2,800 diamonds and featuring both a large diamond gifted to Queen Victoria by the Sultan of ...