Dorothea of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Dorothea Maria Henriette Auguste Louise of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (born April 30, 1881 in Vienna , † January 21, 1967 at Taxis Castle in Dischingen ) was a princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duchess of Saxony. She married Ernst Günther Duke of Schleswig-Holstein in Coburg in 1898 .
Life
Dorothea was a daughter of Philipp, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Louise-Marie, Princess of Belgium , daughter of King Leopold II of Belgium and sister of Crown Princess Stephanie , Archduchess of Austria, wife of Crown Prince Rudolf , son of Emperor Franz Joseph I. . and Empress Elisabeth .
Dorothea von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha did not have a good relationship with her mother Princess Louise of Belgium. This caused great excitement around 1900 when she started a relationship with her stable master and ran into debt all over Europe. She was later declared insane and imprisoned in an institution. She died impoverished in Wiesbaden in 1924 .
Dorothea and Ernst Gunther had no children. In 1920 they adopted Princess Marie Luise (1908–1969) and Prince Johann Georg von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1911–1941), son and daughter of Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and Countess Ortrud von Isenburg and Büdingen. Marie Luise and Johann Georg were great-grandsons of Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg , an older brother of Christian IX. from Denmark.
She was buried in the Koháry crypt of the St. Augustin Church in Coburg .
literature
BIOGRAPHY: La fortune de Dora. Une petite-fille de Léopold II chez les nazis. By Olivier Defrance & Joseph van Loon (Racine, Brussels, published February 2013).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Harald Sandner: Coburg in the 20th century. The chronicle of the city of Coburg and the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from January 1, 1900 to December 31, 1999 - from the "good old days" to the dawn of the 21st century. Against forgetting . New Press Publishing House, Coburg 2002, ISBN 3-00-006732-9 . P. 254
- ↑ Jewelry of Princess Louise of Saxe-Coburg Gotha . Royal magazine. Retrieved May 8, 2015.
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| SURNAME | Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Dorothea von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Dorothea Maria Henriette Auguste Louise |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duchess of Saxony |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1967 |
| Place of death | Things |