Viktoria Adelheid of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

Viktoria Adelheid of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1912)

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

Life

Viktoria Adelheid with family, June 1918

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-Augustenburg (1860-1932), daughter of Duke Friedrich VIII Schleswig-Holstein and Princess Adelheid zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg . Through her mother she was a niece of the last German Empress Auguste Viktoria . At a court ball in the Berlin City Palace on February 15, 1905, Princess Viktoria Adelheid became the British 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 afterwards, the engagement was announced at the ball. On October 11, 1905, he married the now reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha at Glücksburg Castle . The marriage had five children:

• Johann Leopold William Albert Ferdinand Victor (1906–1972)

⚭ 1932–1962 Feodora Freiin von der Horst (1905–1991)

⚭ 1963 Maria Theresia Reindl (1908–1996)

• Sibylla Calma Maria Alice Bathildis Feodora (1908–1972) ⚭ 1932 Gustav Adolf Hereditary Prince of Sweden
• Dietmar Hubertus Frederick William Philip (1909–1943), fallen
• Caroline Mathilde Helene Ludwiga Augusta Beatrice (1912–1983)

⚭ 1931–1938 Friedrich Wolfgang Otto Graf von Castell-Rüdenhausen (1906–1940), died

⚭ 1938–1944 Max Schnirring (1895–1944)

⚭ 1946–1947 Karl Andree (1912–1984)

• Friedrich Josias Carl Eduard Ernst Kyrill Harald (1918–1998)

⚭ 1942–1946 Viktoria Luise Countess zu Solms-Baruth (1921–2003)

⚭ 1948–1964 Denyse Henrietta de Muralt (1923–2005)

⚭ 1964 Kathrin Bremme (1940–2011)

Viktoria Adelheid and Carl Eduard von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha, ca.1905

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

Titles in different phases of life

• 1885–1905 Your Highness Princess Viktoria Adelheid of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
• 1905–1970 Her Royal Highness Princess of Great Britain and Ireland
• 1905–1917 Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Albany
• 1905–1918 Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Others

The following were named after her:

• the infant home Viktoria-Adelheid-Pflege in Gotha,
• the Viktoria-Adelheid-Schutzhütte on the Brandstetterkogel in the community Neustadtl an der Donau in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria .

literature

• 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
• Thomas Nicklas: The House of Saxony-Coburg - Europe's late dynasty . Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-17-017243-3 .

Web links

Commons : Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Viktoria Adelheid Helene Luise Marie Friederike Princess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg on thepeerage.com , accessed on September 10, 2016.