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HomeVictoria of Saxe-Coburg and Saalfeld

Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Saalfeld

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Feodora of Leiningen

Queen Victoria’s half-sister Feodora of Leiningen

Saturday, 7 December 2019, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 2

Queen Victoria may have grown up without much contact with the outside world, but she had some company in the form of her elder half-sister. Princess Feodora of Leiningen was born on 7 December 1807 to Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen and Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Saalfeld in Amorbach. She had an elder brother, [read more]

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The Royal Women

Queen Victoria & Sir John Conroy

Monday, 21 October 2019, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 1

John Conroy was born on 21 October 1786 as the son of John Ponsonby Conroy, Esq., and Margaret Wilson in Wales. Both his parents were Irish, and he was one of six siblings. He entered the army at the age of 17, but he was not quite as successful as he might have hoped. His [read more]

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The Year of Queen Victoria (2019)

Queen Victoria & Baroness Lehzen

Thursday, 3 October 2019, 6:00 Amy Eloise Kelly 0

Johanna Clara Louise Lehzen was born on 3 October 1784, and she is most remembered as the governess and companion of Queen Victoria. Louise Lehzen was born in Hanover as the daughter of Joachim Friedrich Lehzen who was a Lutheran pastor and his wife, Melusine Palm. Louise was the youngest of the couple’s nine children, [read more]

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Feodora of Leiningen

Queen Victoria & her half-brother Charles, 3rd Prince of Leiningen

Thursday, 12 September 2019, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Queen Victoria’s half-brother Charles was born on 12 September 1804 as the son of Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Victoria herself married at the age of 17 to the widowed Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen who was then 40 years old and had previously been married to Victoria’s [read more]

The Royal Women

The Duchess of Kent & King William IV’s awkward birthday dinner

Wednesday, 21 August 2019, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0

In August 1836, King William IV celebrated his last birthday in style. He invited the Duchess of Kent and Princess Victoria to stay at Windsor Castle from the 13th – Queen Adelaide’s birthday – until his own birthday on the 21st. However, the Duchess of Kent told him that she wanted to have her own [read more]

The Year of Queen Victoria (2019)

Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld – Finding happiness (Part four)

Tuesday, 20 August 2019, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 1

Read part one here. Read part two here. Read part three here. It would not be until her daughter became a mother of her own, that Victoria found herself welcomed back into the family. When Sir John Conroy died in 1854, Victoria wrote to her daughter, “He has been of great use to me, but [read more]

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