Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein

Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- Glücksburg, full name Viktoria Adelheid Helena Louise Maria Frederike von Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- Glücksburg ( born December 31, 1885 Good Green Wood in Thumby at Kappeln; † October 3, 1970 in Grein, Austria ) was a German noblewoman and by marriage Duchess of the last Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; and a member of the British royal family.

Life

Viktoria Adelheid was the eldest daughter of Duke Friedrich Ferdinand of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- Glücksburg (1855-1934) and his wife Princess Caroline Mathilde of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- August Castle (1860-1932), daughter of Duke Frederick VIII of Schleswig -Holstein and Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe- Langenburg Victoria. Through her ​​mother she was a niece of the last German Empress Auguste Viktoria.

On a court ball in the Berlin City Palace on February 15, 1905, Princess Victoria Adelheid of Britain's Prince Carl Eduard of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha, 2nd Duke of Albany ( 1884-1954 ), only son of Leopold, Duke of Albany and Princess Helene of Waldeck -Pyrmont presented. Immediately after the engagement was announced on the ball. On October 11, 1905 followed at Schloss Glücksburg the wedding with the now reigning Duke of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha. The marriage produced five children:

  • Johann Leopold William Albert Ferdinand Victor (1906-1972)
  • Sibylla Calma Maria Alice Bathildis Feodora (1908-1972) ∞ 1932 Gustav Adolf Crown Prince of Sweden
  • Dietmar Hubertus Frederick William Philip (1909-1943), like
  • Caroline Mathilde Helene Ludwiga Augusta Beatrice (1912-1983)
  • Friedrich Josias Carl Eduard Ernst Kyrill Harald (1918-1998)

After the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II, her husband saw in 1918 was forced to resign; together with the children, the couple lived in Coburg.

Titles in different stages of life

Others

After you have been named:

  • The infant home Viktoria Adelheid Care in Gotha,
  • The Viktoria Adelheid refuge on the Brandstetter Kogel in the Nove Mesto municipality on the Danube in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria.
Grein, Austria Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1909–1943) Amstetten District
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