Princess Feodora of Leiningen
Princess Feodora of Leiningen, Princess Anna Feodora Auguste full name Charlotte Wilhelmine zu Leiningen ( born December 7, 1807 in Amorbach, † September 23, 1872 in Baden- Baden), by marriage, Princess of Hohenlohe -Langenburg, was the half-sister of Queen Victoria and niece of the first Belgian King Leopold I.
Biography
Feodora was the only daughter of Prince Emich Carl of Leiningen (1763-1814) and his second wife Princess Marie Louise Victoire of Saxe- Coburg -Saalfeld (1786-1861), daughter of Duke Franz of Saxe- Coburg -Saalfeld. Together with her three- year-older brother, and later Prince Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Emich of Leiningen (1804-1856), she grew up in Amorbach.
After her father's death her mother in 1818 Eduard August, Duke of Kent and Strathearn married ( 1767-1820 ), the fourth son of King George III. of Great Britain. From this second marriage came as the only child Alexandrina Victoria, who later became Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India.
In the fall of 1819 the family moved to a cottage in Sidmouth. After the early death of her stepfather, she moved with the help of his sister, Princess Augusta Sophia in January 1820 back into the Kensington Palace. Feodora got a school education from private tutors and learned at the request of the king and the horse riding.
Marriage and descendants
On February 18, 1828 married Princess Feodora of Leiningen at Kensington Palace Prince Ernst I of Hohenlohe -Langenburg ( 1794-1860 ), eldest son of Prince Karl Ludwig and Countess Amalie Henriette of Solms- Baruth. The marriage produced six children:
- Karl Ludwig Wilhelm Leopold (1829-1907) ∞ 1861 ( left-handed marriage ) Marie Grathwohl ( 1837-1901 ), Baroness von Bronn (1890)
- Elise Adelheid Victorie (1830-1851), unmarried
- Hermann Ernst Franz Bernhard (1832-1913) ∞ 1862 Princess Leopoldine of Baden ( 1837-1903 )
- Viktor Franz Ferdinand (1833-1891) ∞ 1861 ( left-handed marriage ) Lady Laura Wilhelmina Seymour, Countess von Gleichen (1861 )
- Adelheid Amalie Louise Victoria Mary Constance (1835-1900) ∞ 1856 Duke Frederick VIII of Schleswig -Holstein
- Victoria Feodora Adelheid (1839-1872) ∞ 1858 Duke Georg II of Saxe -Meiningen ( 1826-1914 )
Princess of Hohenlohe- Langenburg
Your political activist husband was often present at Stuttgart, the royal family moved there a second residential home next Langenburg. It participated in the social life in England, where she visited her numerous relatives. Princess Feodora was known everywhere for their independent thinking and through their religiously inspired charity. On February 18, 1830 she co-founded with her husband the Children's Safety Institute towards abandoned and poor children. On the occasion of their silver wedding anniversary in 1853 she founded the Armenbewahranstalt for children and the sick.
After the death of her husband the widow moved to Baden -Baden and moved there in the so-called Villa Hohenlohe on Michael's Mount, where she was repeatedly visited by her sister. There, Princess Feodora died on September 23, 1872 after a long illness. She was buried in the main cemetery of Baden- Baden.
Base of the memorial inscription
Base of the memorial inscription
Trivia
- As it was said, was King George IV of Great Britain more pleased with Victoria's half-sister, Feodora. With her 19 years she reminded him of his own daughter, Princess Charlotte Augusta, who had married in about the same age.
- Feodora married to escape the prison of Kensington: "I would - I do not know who took to get away from there. "
- Feodoras granddaughter, Princess Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- August Castle (1858-1921), was the last German Empress and Queen of Prussia.