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Victoria, Duchess of Kent

1786–1861

Victoria's mother

Victoria's mother · Albert's aunt and mother-in-law

Facts

Born:
17 August 1786
Died:
16 March 1861 (aged 74)
  • At Victoria's birth (1819): aged 32
  • At Victoria's accession (1837): aged 50
  • At Victoria and Albert's wedding (1840): aged 53

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Life in the Almanack

  1. 17 August 1786 Birth of Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, the future Duchess of Kent, Victoria's mother
  2. 21 October 1786 Birth of Sir John Conroy, comptroller to the Duchess of Kent, deviser of the "Kensington System" aged 0
  3. 11 February 1806 Birth of Lady Flora Hastings, lady-in-waiting to the Duchess of Kent aged 19
  4. 4 July 1814 Death of Emich Charles, Prince of Leiningen, first husband of the Duchess of Kent aged 27
  5. 2 March 1854 Death of Sir John Conroy, comptroller to the Duchess of Kent, deviser of the "Kensington System" aged 67
  6. 16 March 1861 The Duchess of Kent, Victoria's mother, dies at Frogmore House aged 74

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