Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (17 August 1786 – 16 March 1861), later Duchess of Kent and Strathearn, was a German princess and the mother of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. As the widow of Charles, Prince of Leiningen (1763–1814), from 1814 she served as regent of the Principality during the minority of her son from her first marriage, Carl, until her second wedding in 1818 to Prince Edward, son of King George III of the United Kingdom.Tom Levine: Die Windsors. Glanz und Tragik einer fast normalen Familie. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2005, , S. 20.
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* Longford, Elizabeth (1964) Victoria R.I., London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 
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* Marshall, Dorothy (1972) The Life and Times of Queen Victoria, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [1992 reprint]
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* Somerset, Anne (1980). The Life and Times of William IV. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 
* St Aubyn, Giles (1991) Queen Victoria: A Portrait, London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 
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* Waller, Maureen (2006) Sovereign Ladies: The Six Reigning Queens of England, London: John Murray, 
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* Woodham-Smith, Cecil (1972) Queen Victoria: Her Life and Times 1819–1861, London: Hamish Hamilton, 
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