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3 days ago · On her death in 1901, their eldest son succeeded as Edward VII, the first British monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, named after the ducal house to which Albert belonged. Early life. Albert (left) with his elder brother, Ernest, and mother, Louise, shortly before her exile from court.
Jun 29, 2024 · Leopold I, who had accepted the Belgium throne in 1831, was from the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha dynasty, which needed to invoke Belgium’s past to lend a sense of legitimacy to the royal line of the newly created country.
4 days ago · Before George V picked Windsor, the royals were going by the “House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.” He switched it up due to anti-German sentiment following World War I (specifically after an aircraft called the Gotha G.IV bombed London) and went with the very posh-sounding Windsor in honor of Windsor Castle.
8 hours ago · Trinity College, Cambridge. Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Edward, nicknamed "Bertie", was related ...
5 days ago · The House of Oldenburg is an ancient dynasty of German origin whose members rule or have ruled in Denmark, Iceland, Greece, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Livonia, Schleswig, Holstein, and Oldenburg.
4 days ago · The accession of a young woman was romantically popular. But because of the existence in Hanover of the Salic law, which prevented succession by a woman, the crowns of Great Britain and Hanover became separated, the latter passing to William IV’s eldest surviving brother, Ernest, the unpopular duke of Cumberland.
5 days ago · King Charles has awarded his brother Prince Edward Scotland's highest royal honour. The youngest of the royal siblings was appointed to the Order of the Thistle at a special ceremony in...
