Wettin 9

Franz August Karl ALBERT Emanuel Pr von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha, "Royal Highness" 6.2.1840, cr Prince Consort of Great Britain and Ireland 26.6.1857, *Schloß Rosenau 26.8.1819, +Windsor Castle 14.12.1861; m.Chapel Royal, St.James's Palace 10.2.1840 Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland (*24.5.1819, +22.1.1901); They had issue:

A1. Albert EDWARD VII, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Emperor of India from 22.1.1901, cr Westminster Abbey 9.8.1902, Pr of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Duke of Saxony, *Buckingham Palace 9.11.1841, +Buckingham Palace 6.5.1910, bur St.George´s Chapel, Windsor; m.St.George´s Chapel, Windsor Castle 10.3.1863 Pss Alexandra of Denmark (*1.12.1844 +20.11.1925); Their issue bore the surname Windsor
- B1. ALBERT VICTOR Christian Edward, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, etc., *Frogmore House, nr Windsor 8.1.1864, +Sandringham 14.1.1892
- B2. GEORGE V Frederick Ernest Albert, King of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India (1910-36); "Ireland" in the title of the British sovereign was changed to "Northern Ireland" at some point after the separation of Ireland; he renounced on behalf of himself and his family the German titles they held during the First World War; *Marlborough House, London 3.6.1865, +Sandringham, Norfolk 20.1.1936, bur St.George´s Chapel, Windsor; m.Chapel Royal, St.James's Palace, Westminster 6.7.1893 Pss Mary von Teck (*26.5.1867 +24.3.1953)
  - C1. EDWARD VIII Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Emperor of India (20.1.-10.12.1936), he abdicated, cr Duke of Windsor 8.3.1937 and was granted the style Royal Highness for himself only, Governor of Bahama Islands (1939-45), *White Lodge, Richmond Park, Surrey 23.6.1894, +Paris 28.5.1972; m.Château de Candé 3.6.1937 Wallis Warfield, Mrs. Simpson (*Monterey, Virginia 19.6.1896, +Paris 24.4.1986)
  - C2. Albert Frederick Arthur GEORGE VI, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1936-52), ascended the throne on the abdication of his brother, King Edward VIII, 11.12.1936; Emperor of India, he relinquished the title Emperor of India 22.6.1948; *York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk 14.12.1895, +Sandringham House, Norfolk 6.2.1952, bur St.George´s Chapel, Windsor; m.Westminster Abbey 26.4.1923 Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (*London 4.8.1900, +Royal Lodge, Windsor 30.3.2002)
    - D1. ELIZABETH II Alexandra Mary, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1952- ), *London 21.4.1926; m.Westminster Abbey 20.11.1947 Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, formerly Pr of Greece and Denmark (*10.6.1921)
    - D2. Pss Margaret Rose, Countess of Snowdon, CI, GCVO, *Glamis Castle 21.8.1930, +London 9.2.2002; m.Westminster Abbey 6.5.1960 (div 5.7.1978) Anthony Armstrong-Jones, cr Earl of Snowdon 1961 (*London 7.3.1930)
  - C3. Pr HENRY William Frederick Albert, cr Duke of Gloucester, Earl of Ulster and Baron Culloden 1928, Governor-General of Australia (1945-1947), *York Cottage, Sandringham 31.3.1900, +Barnwell, Northants 10.6.1974; m.Buckingham Palace 6.11.1935 Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott (*25.12.1901, +29.10.2004)
    - D1. Pr WILLIAM Henry Andrew Frederick, *Hadley Common, Hertfordshire 18.12.1941, +k.in flying accident nr Wolverhampton 28.8.1972
    - D2. Pr RICHARD Alexander Walter George, 2nd Duke of Gloucester, *Northampton 26.8.1944; m.Barnwell, Northants 8.7.1972 Birgitte Eva van Deurs (*Odense, Denmark 20.6.1946)
      - E1. ALEXANDER Patrick Gregers Richard, Earl of Ulster, *Paddington, London 24.10.1974; m.London 22.6.2002 Dr. Claire Booth (*Sheffield 28.12.1977)
        F1. Xan Richard Anders, Lord Culloden, *London 12.3.2007
      - E2. Lady DAVINA Elizabeth Alice Benedikte, *Paddington, London 19.11.1977; m.Kensington Palace 31.7.2004 Gary Lewis (*Gisborne, New Zealand 15.8.1970)
      - E3. Lady ROSE Victoria Birgitte Louise, *Paddington, London 1.3.1980; m.London 19.7.2008 George Gilman
  - C4. Pr GEORGE Edward Alexander Edmund, cr Duke of Kent 1934, Earl of St.Andrews and Baron Downpatrick, *Sandringham House 20.12.1902, +k.in air accident while on active service at Morven, Caithness 25.8.1942; m.Westminster Abbey 29.11.1934 Pss Marina of Greece and Denmark (*13.12.1906 +24.8.1968)
    - D1. Pr EDWARD George Nicholas Paul Patrick, 2nd Duke of Kent, *London 9.10.1935; m.York Minster 8.6.1961 Katharine Worsley (*Hovingham, Yorks 22.2.1933)
      - E1. GEORGE Philip Nicholas, Earl of St.Andrews, *Coppins, Iver, Bucks 26.6.1962; m.Leith 9.1.1988 Sylvana Tomaselli (*Placentia, Newfoundland 28.5.1957)
        F1. EDWARD Edmund Maximilian George, Baron Downpatrick, *Paddington, London 2.12.1988
        F2. Lady MARINA Charlotte Alexandra Katherine Helen, *Cambridge 30.9.1992
        F3. Lady AMELIA Sophia Theodora Mary Margaret, *Cambridge 24.8.1995
      - E2. Lord NICHOLAS Charles Edward Jonathan, *London 25.7.1970; m.(civ) London 19.10.2006 (rel) chiesa di Santo Stefano degli Abissini, Vatican 4.11.2006 Paola Doimi de Frankopan (*London 7.8.1969)
        F1. ALBERT Louis Philip Edward, *London 22.9.2007
      - E3. a son, *and +London 5.10.1977
      - E4. Lady HELEN Marina Lucy, *Coppins, Bucks 28.4.1964; m.Windsor 18.7.1992 Timothy Taylor (*Yelverton 8.8.1963)
    - D2. Pr MICHAEL George Charles Franklin, *Coppins 4.7.1942; m.(civ) Vienna 30.6.1978 (rel, anglican) Westminster Abbey 30.10.1978 (rel, catholic) London 30.7.1978 Marie-Christine Frn von Reibnitz (*Karlsbad 15.1.1945)
      - E1. Lord FREDERICK Michael George David Louis, *Paddington, London 6.4.1979
      - E2. Lady Gabriella (ELLA) Marina Alexandra Ophelia, *Paddington, London 23.4.1981
    - D3. Pss ALEXANDRA Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel, *London 25.12.1936; m.Westminster Abbey 24.4.1963 Hon. Sir Angus Ogilvy (*London 14.9.1928, +London 26.12.2004)
  - C5. JOHN Charles Francis, *York Cottage 12.7.1905, +Wood Farm, Wolferton, Norfolk 18.1.1919
  - C6. Victoria Alexandra Alice MARY, Pss Royal, *York Cottage 25.4.1897, +Harewood House 28.3.1965; m.Westminster Abbey 28.2.1922 Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood (*London 9.9.1882, +Harewood House 23.5.1947)
- B3. Alexander JOHN Charles Albert, *Sandringham 6.4.1871, +Sandringham 7.4.1871
- B4. LOUISE Victoria Alexandra Dagmar, Pss Royal, *Marlborough House 20.2.1867, +London 4.1.1931; m.Buckingham Palace 27.7.1889 Alexander Duff, 6th Earl & 1st Duke of Fife (*Edinburgh 10.11.1849, +Assuan, Egypt 29.12.1912)
- B5. VICTORIA Alexandra Olga Mary, *Marlborough House 6.7.1868, +Coppins, Iver, Bucks 3.12.1935
- B6. MAUD Charlotte Mary Victoria, *Marlborough House 26.11.1869, +London 20.11.1938; m.Buckingham Palace 22.7.1896 King Haakon VII of Norway (*3.8.1872, +21.9.1957)
A2. ALFRED Ernest Albert, Pr of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Edinburgh, etc, Herzog von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha 22.8.1893, *Windsor Castle 6.8.1844, +Schloß Rosenau 30.7.1900; m.St.Petersburg 23.1.1874 Grand Dss Marie of Russia (*17.10.1853 +25.10.1920)
- B1. ALFRED Alexander Wilhelm Ernst Albert, Erbpprinz von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha, *Buckingham Palace 15.10.1874, +Meran 6.2.1899
- B2. MARIE Alexandra Victoria, *Eastwell Park 29.10.1875, +Pelesch Castle, Sinaia 10.7.1938; m.Sigmaringen 10.1.1893 King Ferdinand of Romania (*24.8.1865 +20.7.1927)
- B3. VICTORIA Melita, *Malta 25.11.1876, +Amorbach 2.3.1036; 1m: Schloss Ehrenburg, Coburg 19.4.1894 (div 1901) Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and the Rhine (*Darmstadt 25.11.1868, +Schloß Wolfsgarten 9.10.1937); 2m: Tegernsee 8.10.1905 Grand Duke Kirill of Russia (*12.10.1876 +13.10.1938)
- B4. ALEXANDRA Louise Olga Victoria, *Coburg 1.9.1878, +Schwäbisch Hall 16.4.1942; m.Coburg 20.4.1896 Fst Ernst zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (*13.9.1863 +11.12.1950)
- B5. a daughter, *and +Eastwell Park 13.10.1879
- B6. BEATRICE Leopoldine Victoria, *Eastwell Park 20.4.1884, +Sanlúcar de Barrameda 13.7.1966; m.Schloss Rosenau bei Coburg 15.7.1909 Alfonso d'Orleans, Infant of Spain, Duque de Galliera (*Madrid 12.11.1886, +Sanlúcar de Barrameda 10.8.1975)
A3. ARTHUR William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, etc., *Buckingham Palace 1.5.1850, +Bagshot Park, Surrey 16.1.1942; m.Windsor Castle 13.3.1879 Pss Luise Margarete of Prussia (*25.6/7.1860 +14.3.1917)
- B1. ARTHUR Frederick Patrick Albert, *Windsor Castle 13.1.1883, +London 12.9.1938; m.St.James's Palace 15.10.1913 Pss Alexandra Duff, Dss of Fife (*East Sheen Lodge, Richmond, Surrey 17.5.1891, +London 26.2.1959)
  - C1. Alastair Arthur, Pr of Great Britain, etc., until 1917, after which he was known as Earl of Macduff until he succeeded his grandfather as Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, *London 9.8.1914, +Ottawa 26.4.1943
- B2. MARGARET Victoria Augusta Charlotte Norah, *Bagshot Park 15.1.1882, +Stockholm 1.5.1920; m.Windsor Castle 15.6.1905 Crown Pr Gustaf Adolf of Sweden [later King Gustaf VI Adolf] (*11.11.1882 +15.9.1973)
- B3. Victoria PATRICIA Helena Elizabeth, in 1919 she renounced her title and was thereafter known as Lady Patricia Ramsay, *Buckingham Palace 17.3.1886, +Ribsden Holt, Windlesham, Surrey 12.1.1974; m.Westminster Abbey 27.2.1919 Adm. Hon. Sir Alexander Ramsay (*London 29.5.1881, +Ribsden Holt 8.10.1972)
A4. LEOPOLD George Duncan Albert, Duke of Albany, etc., *Buckingham Palace 7.4.1853, +Cannes 28.3.1884; m.Windsor Castle 27.4.1882 Pss Helene zu Waldeck und Pyrmont (*17.2.1861 +1.9.1922)
- B1. Leopold CHARLES EDWARD George Albert, Pr of Great Britain and Ireland, 2nd Duke of Albany, etc., succeeded as KARL EDUARD, Herzog von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha 30.7.1900; he and his family were stripped of their British titles 1919, *Claremont House 19.7.1884, +Coburg 6.3.1954; m.Schloss Glücksburg 11.10.1905 Pss Viktoria Adelheid von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (*Grünholz 31.12.1885, +Schloss Greinberg 3.10.1970)
  - C4. CAROLINE MATHILDE Helene Ludwiga Auguste Beatrice, *Schloß Callenberg 22.6.1912, +Erlangen 5.9.1983; 1m: Veste, Coburg 14.12.1931 (div Berlin 2.5.1938) Gf Friedrich-Wolfgang zu Castell-Rüdenhausen (*Berlin 27.6.1906, +k.a.over Portland 11.6.1940); 2m: Berlin 22.6.1938 Max Schnirring (*Stuttgart-Untertürkheim 20.5.1895, +k.in air crash at Stralsund 7.7.1944); 3m: Coburg 21.12.1948 (div 1949) Karl Otto André (*Düsseldorf 10.2.1912, +Mönchengladbach 16.11.1984)
  - C5. FRIEDRICH JOSIAS Karl Eduard Kyrill Harald, *Schloß Callenberg 29.11.1918, +Grein 23.1.1998; 1m: Casel 25.1.1942 (div 19.9.1946) Gfn Viktoria Luise zu Solms-Baruth (*Casel 13.3.1921, +Louisiana 1.3.2003); 2m: San Francisco 14.2.1948 (div 1964) Denyse de Muralt (*Basel 14.12.1923); 3m: Hamburg 30.10.1964 Katrin Bremme (*Berlin 22.4.1940)
    - D1. [1m.] ANDREAS Michael Arnim Siegfried Friedrich Hans Hubertus, *Casel 21.3.1943; m.Hamburg (civ) 18.6.1971 (rel) 31.7.1971 Carin Dabelstein (*Hamburg 16.7.1946)
      - E1. Stephanie Sibylla, *Hamburg 31.1.1972
      - E2. Hubertus Michael, *Hamburg 16.9.1975
      - E3. Alexander Philipp, *Coburg 4.5.1977
    - D2. [2m.] Maria Claudia Sibylla, *San Francisco 22.5.1949; m.Bern 17.3.1971 Gion Schäfer (*Coire, Switzerland 20.7.1945)
    - D3. [2m.] Beatrice Charlotte, *Bern 15.7.1951; m.Coburg (civ) 11.6.1977 (rel) 12.6.1977 Pr Friedrich von Sachsen-Meiningen (*Meiningen 21.1.1935, +13.7.2004)
    - D4. [2m.] ADRIAN Vinzenz Eduard, *Coburg 18.10.1955; 1m: (morganatically) Bern (civ) 18.10.1984 (rel) 20.10.1984 (div 1993) Lea Rinderknecht (*Zürich 5.1.1960); 2m: (morganatically) Bern 11.7.1997 Gertrud Krieg (*Olten, Solothurn 18.3.1958)
      - E1. Simon, *Bern 10.3.1985
      - E2. Daniel, *Bern 26.1.1988
- B2. ALICE Mary Victoria Augusta Pauline, *Windsor Castle 25.2.1883, +Kensington Palace 3.1.1981; m.Windsor Castle 10.2.1904 Alexander, Pr von Teck, cr Earl of Athlone (*Kensington Palace 14.4.1874, +Kensington Palace 16.1.1957)
A5. VICTORIA Adelaide Mary Louisa, Pss Royal, *Buckingham Palace 21.11.1840, +Friedrichshof 5.8.1901; m.St.James's Palace 25.1.1858 Emperor Friedrich III of Germany (*18.10.1831 +15.6.1888)
A6. ALICE Maud Mary, *Buckingham Palace 25.4.1843, +Darmstadt 14.12.1878; m.Osborne House 1.7.1862 Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine (*Bessungen 12.9.1837, +Darmstadt 13.3.1892)
A7. HELENA Augusta Victoria, *Buckingham Palace 25.5.1846, +Schomberg House, London 9.6.1923; m.Windsor Castle 5.7.1866 Pr Christian von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (*Augustenburg 22.1.1831, +Schomberg House 28.10.1917)
A8. LOUISE Caroline Alberta, *Buckingham Palace 18.3.1848, +Kensington Palace 3.12.1939; m.Windsor Castle 21.3.1871 John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll (*London 6.8.1845, +Kent House, Cowes, Isle of Wight 2.5.1914)
A9. BEATRICE Mary Victoria Feodore, *Buckingham Palace 14.4.1857, +Brantridge Park, Balcombe, Sussex 26.10.1944; m.Whippingham Church, Isle of Wight 23.7.1885 Heinrich Pr von Battenberg (*Milan 5.10.1858, +at sea 20.1.1896)

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