Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein (1885–1970)

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Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein (1885–1970)

Duchess of Albany. Name variations: Victoria Adelheid, princess von Schleswig-Holstein. Born Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Saxe-Coburg-Glucksburg on December 31, 1885, in Grunholz, Holstein, Germany; died on October 3, 1970, in Coburg, Bavaria, Germany; daughter of Frederick Ferdinand (1855–1934), duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Glucksburg (r. 1855–1934) and Caroline Matilda of Schleswig-Holstein (1860–1932); married Charles Edward Saxe-Coburg, 2nd duke of Albany, on October 11, 1905; children: John Leopold (b. 1906), prince of Saxe-Coburg; Sybilla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1908–1972); Hubertus Frederick (b. 1909, a pilot in the Luftwaffe); Caroline Matilda Schnirring (1912–1983, who married Max Otto Schnirring, a captain in the Luftwaffe), duchess of Saxony; Frederick (b. 1918).

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