Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

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Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg – Queen Victoria’s mother-in-law

Saturday, 21 December 2019, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 1

Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg was born on 21 December 1800 as the daughter of Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and his first wife Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Her mother never recovered from the childbirth and died just 11 days later on 4 January 1801. Her father remarried on 24 April 1802 to Karoline Amalie of Hesse-Kassel, but [read more]

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Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg’s last message

Tuesday, 6 August 2019, 18:33 Moniek Bloks 0

In August 1831, Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg – the mother of Queen Victoria’s future husband Prince Albert – was dying. Her marriage to Albert’s father had ended in divorce in 1826 after she had allegedly committed adultery with Lieutenant Alexander von Haustein, who was created Count Pölzig when they married later that same year. Ernst [read more]