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KINGS AND QUEENS OF GREAT BRITAIN -
QUEEN VICTORIA (1837 - 1901)
  Part 3 of 6

    4. LEOPOLD George Duncan Albert, 1st Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence and Baron Arklow, KG, Col. in the Army, born 7 April, 1853, married 27 April, 1882, Princess Helen Frederica Augusta (died 1 September 1922), daughter of George Victor, Reigning Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and died 28 March 1884, leaving issue,
        Leopold CHARLES EDWARD George Albert, Reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg -Gotha, Duke of Saxony, General a la suite 1st Regt. Prussian Guards, born posthumously, 19 July 1884, succeeded as 2nd Duke of Albany, etc. at birth, and as Duke of Saxe-Coburg -Gotha, on the death of his uncle, Alfred, Duke of Edinbrugh, 30 July 1900; abdicated 14 November 1918, KG 15 July 1902, struck off the Roll of that Order, 13 May 1915, deprived of his peerages and title of Prince of Great Britain by Order in Council 28 March 1919, married 11 October 1905, H.H. Princess Victoria Adelaide Helene Louise Marie Frederica (ElsasserStrasse 9, Coburg, Bavaria), eldest daughter of Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, and died 6 March 1954, having had issue,
            (1) Johann Leopold Wilhelm Albert Ferdinand Victor, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, in whom is vested the right to petition for restoration of the peerages of Albany, etc. Kurfurstenstrasse 13, Bad Reichenhall, Germany), b. 2 August 1906, married 1stly, 14 March 1932 (div. 26 Feb 1962), Baroness Feodora Maria Alma Marguerite, formerly wife of Baron Wolf Sigismund Pergler von Perglas, and daughter of Baron Bernhard von der Horst, and has issue,
                1a Ernst Leopold Eduard Wilhelm Josias, born 14 January 1935, married 1stly, 4 February 1961 (div. 23 May 1963), Ingeborg, daughter of Richard Hennig, of Herrenberg, Wiirttemberg, and has issue,
                    Hubertus Richard Ernst Eduard, born 8 December 1961.
                He married 2ndly, 29 May 1963, Gertraude Pfeiffer.
                2a Peter Albert Friedrich Josias, born 12 June 1939, married 11 May 1964, Roswitha Breuer.
                1a Caroline Mathilde Adelaide Sibylla Marianne Erica, born 5 April, 1933, married 5 December 1953, Michael Adalbert Wilfried Nielscn (Ringstrasse, Erkrath-Minterbach, nr. Dusseldorf, Germany), and has issue,

                    1b Margarethe Brigitte, born 30 September 1954.
                    2b Renate Christine, born 4 February1957.

            He married 2ndly, 3 May 1962, Elisabeth Mueller, daughter of Max Reindl, of Bad Reichenhall.
            (2) Dietmar Hubertus Friedrich Wilhelm Philip, born 24 August 1909; killed in action, 26 November 1943.
            (3) Friedrich Josias Carl Eduard Ernst Kyril Harald Schlos Greinburg, Greina Donau, Austria; Coburg, Elsaessser Strasse 8, Germany), born 29 November1918, married 1stly 25 January 1942 married dissolved 10 September 1946) Countess Victoria Louise Frederica Caroline Mathilde, daughter of Count Hans Solms-Baruth, and has issue,

                1a Andreas Michael Armin Siegfried Hubertus Friedrich Hans, born 6 March 1943.
            He married 2ndly, 14 Feb 1948 (div.1964), Denyse Henriette, daughter of Robert Gaston de Muralt, of 23, Alpenstrasse, Berne, Switzerland, and by her has issue,
                2a Adrian Vincenz Edward, born 18 October 1955.
                1a Maria Claudia Sibylla, born 22 May 1949.
                2a Beatrice Charlotte, born 15 July 1951.

            He married 3rdly, 1964, Kathrin Bremme.
            (1) Sibylla Calma Marie Alice Bathildis Feodora, born 18 January 1908, married 20 October 1932, Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Westerbotten. G.C.V.O., eldest son of H.M. Gustaf VI Adolf, King of Sweden, and has issue (see above). He was killed in a flying accident at Copenhagen, 26 January 1947.
            (2) Caroline Mathilde Ludwige Helena Augusta Beatrice (has resumed her maiden name), born 22 June 1912, married 1stly, 14 December 1931 married dissolved. 2 May 1938), Count Friedrich Wolfgang zu Castell-Rudenhausen (missing presumed k. in battle, 11 July 1940), and has issue,

                1a Bertram Friedrich (Nibelungenstrasse 3/16, Vienna 1, Austria) born 12 July 1932, married 10 Oct 1964, Countess Felicitas von Auersperg, and has issue, Dominic, born 1966.
                2a Konradin Friedrich (Vesta Finland), born 10 Oct, married 6 July 1961, Marta, daughter of Bjarne Lonegren, and has issue,

                    Carl Eduard Friedrich Hubertus born 15 March 1964.
                    Anne Charlotte Catharina Victoria, born 7 April, 1962.

                1a Victoria Adelaide Clementine Louise, born. 26 Feb 1935, married 20 June 1960, John Miles Huntington-Whiteley, yst son of Capt. Sir (Herbert) Maurice Huntington-Whiteley, 2nd Bt.R.N. (ret.), and has issue. She married 2ndly, 22 June 1938, Capt. Max Schnirring, German Force killed in a flying accident, 7 July 1944). and has had further issue,
                3a Peter Michael, born 4 January 1943; died unmarried 6 February 1966.
                2a Calma Barbara, born 18 November1938, married 5 July 1961, Richard Berger, and has issue,

                    1b Sascha, born 22 September 1961.
                    2b Richard, born 7 July 1962.
                    3b Victor, born 1963.

                3a Dagmar Sibyl1a, born 22 November1940, married 26 February 1964, Heinrich Walz, and has issue,
                    Maria, born August 1965.
            She married 3rdly, 21 Dec 1948 married annulled 10 October 1959), Jim Andree.
        Alice Mary Victoria Augusta Pauline, V.A., G.C.V.O. (1948), G.B.E. (1937), hon. D.Litt. Lond. Univ. 1933, Queen's Univ., Kingston, Ontario 1933, and McGill Univ 1944, Chancellor of Univ. of the West Indies from 1950, D.G.C.St.J., hon. Col. 12th Pretoria Regt. (S. African Inf.), Cmdt-in-Chief Women's Transport Service (F.A.N.Y.), formerly hon. Cmdt. W.R.C.N.S. and hon. Air Cmdt. R.C.A.F., received hon. Freedom of Weavers' Co. 1947 and of Vintners’ Co. 1956, has Grand Cross of Legion of Honour, born 25 February 1883, married 10 Feb 1904. H.S.H. Prince Alexander of Teck, later Major-Gen. 1st Earl of Athlone, K,G.(see above), and has issue. He died 16 January 1957.

QUEEN VICTORIA part 4 of 6.

EDWARD VII - ELIZABETH II (1901 - Present day).

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