Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Victoria Franziska Antonia Juliane Luise of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha ( born February 14, 1822 in Vienna, † November 10, 1857 in Claremont House in Esher, Surrey, England) was a Princess of Saxe -Coburg and Gotha from the Catholic side line Koháry and by marriage Duchess of Nemours.
Life
Victoria was the only daughter of Duke Ferdinand Georg August of Saxe- Coburg- Saalfeld- Koháry (1785-1851) and his wife, the Hungarian Hereditary Princess Marie Gabriele Antonie of Koháry ( 1797-1862 ). Your paternal grandparents were Duke Franz of Saxe- Coburg -Saalfeld, and his second wife Countess Auguste Reuss to Ebersdorf. She had three brothers; Ferdinand ( II ) ( 1816-1885 ) was King of Portugal, August ( 1818-1881 ) married the sister of her husband, Princess Clementine d' Orléans ( 1817-1907 ) and Leopold married the not befitting Komoponistin Constance Geiger.
On April 27, 1840 Princess Victoria in Saint-Cloud Prince Louis d' Orléans, duc de Nemours ( 1814-1896 ), second son of the Duke of Orléans and later " King of the French " Louis -Philippe and Princess Maria Amelia of Bourbon- Sicily. The marriage had been almost completely neglected in public. As a wedding present the domain Rambouillet and 1 million francs were intended for the father, but refused to chamber the demands of the king.
In 1848 the royal family before the February Revolution fled to England, where she was in exile Victoria's cousin and playmate from childhood, the British Queen Victoria. The cousins had a very close relationship and the Duchess of Nemours spent much time with the Queen as their guest at Osborne House. Victoria was awarded the Royal Mary - Louise Order.
Victoria died on November 10, 1857, just ten days after the birth of her fourth child, the consequences of puerperal fever. She was buried in the chapel of Weybridge. The well-known sculptor Henri Michel Chapu designed with the help of portraits and the death mask of a tomb for the late lamented Duchess. Her body was in 1979 transferred to the Royal Chapel of the Orléans family in Dreux in Normandy.
Reception
A peony is named " Duchesse de Nemours ", Paeonia lactiflora Latin, in honor of the prematurely deceased Viktoria d' Orléans, duchesse de Nemours.
Progeny
From their marriage four children were born:
- Louis Philippe Marie Ferdinand Gaston (1842-1922), comte d' Eu
- Ferdinand Philippe Marie (1844-1910), duc d' Alençon
- Marguerite (1848-1896)
- Blanche (1857-1932)