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Victoria Melita de Sajonia-Coburgo y Gotha ( Attard, 25 de noviembre de 1876 - Amorbach, 2 de marzo de 1936), fue gran duquesa consorte de Hesse y el Rin desde 1894 hasta 1901, como primera esposa del gran duque Ernesto Luis. De 1905 hasta su muerte, fue gran duquesa de Rusia por su segundo matrimonio con Cirilo Románov, pretendiente al trono ruso.
Victoria Melita de Edimburgo y de Sajonia-Coburgo y Gotha ( Attard, 25 de noviembre de 1876 - Amorbach, 2 de marzo de 1936) era la tercera descendiente y segunda hija de Alfredo, duque de Sajonia-Coburgo y Gotha, y la gran duquesa María Aleksándrovna de Rusia, y por lo tanto nieta de la reina Victoria del Reino Unido y del emperador Alejandro ...
La boda de Ernesto Luis, gran duque de Hesse y la princesa Victoria Melita de Sajonia-Coburgo-Gotha se produjo el 9 de abril de 1894 y fue uno de los acontecimientos más importantes de la realeza europea en la década de 1890, siendo ambos contrayentes nietos de la reina Victoria del Reino Unido.
- Early Life
- Youth in Coburg
- Grand Duchess of Hesse
- Divorce
- Remarriage
- Grand Duchess of Russia
- War
- Revolution
- Exile
- Claims to The Russian Throne
Victoria was born on 25 November 1876 in San Anton Palace in Attard, Malta, hence her second name, Melita. Her father, who was stationed on the island as an officer in the Royal Navy, was Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second son of Queen Victoria. Her mother was Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna, the only surviving daughter of Alexander II o...
As a son of Queen Victoria's deceased husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Victoria Melita's father was in the line of succession to Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the sovereign German duchy ruled by Albert's elder brother, Ernest II, until his death in 1893. Prince Alfred became heir presumptive to the duchy when his older brother, the Prince ...
Eventually, Victoria and Ernest bowed to their families' pressure and married on 19 April 1894 at Schloss Ehrenburg in Coburg. The wedding was a large affair, with most of the royal families of Europe attending, including Victoria Melita's grandmother Queen Victoria, her aunt Empress Frederick of Germany, her cousin Kaiser Wilhelm II and her uncle ...
Victoria and Ernest's suffered a further blow in 1897, when Victoria returned home from a visit to her sister Queen Marie of Romania and reportedly caught Ernest in bed with a male servant. She did not make her accusation public, but told a niece that "no boy was safe, from the stable hands to the kitchen help. He slept quite openly with them all."...
After Victoria's divorce from Ernest, Grand Duke Kirill, whom she had seen on all her subsequent visits to Russia, was discouraged by his parents from trying to keep a close relationship with her. Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovnatold Kirill to keep Victoria as his mistress and marry someone else. A few months later, war broke out between Russia and Jap...
Nicholas II reinstated Kirill after deaths in the Russian imperial family promoted Kirill to third in the line of succession to the Russian throne. Kirill and Victoria were allowed in Russia, Victoria was granted the title of Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna, and in May 1910 the couple arrived in St Petersburg. The new grand duchess enjoyed entert...
During World War I, Victoria worked as a Red Cross nurse and organized a motorized ambulance unit that was known for its efficiency. Victoria frequently visited the front near Warsaw and she occasionally carried out her duties under enemy fire. Kirill, for his part, was also in Poland, assigned to the naval department of Admiral Russin, member of t...
At the end of the "February Revolution" of 1917, Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate and political turmoil followed. Victoria wrote to Queen Marie of Romania in February 1917 that their home was surrounded by a mob, "yet heart and soul we are with this movement of freedom which at the time probably signs our own death warrant ... We personally ...
After two weeks in Haikko, the family moved to a rented house in Porvoo where, in August 1917, Victoria gave birth to Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia, her only son and the heir to the dynasty. The family remained in Finland, a former grand duchy under Russian rule, which had declared its independence in December 1917. They hoped that the ...
Kirill suffered a nervous breakdown in 1923 and Victoria nursed him back to health. She encouraged his dreams of restoring the monarchy in Russia and becoming tsar. At Saint-Briac Kirill, aware of the murders of Tsar Nicholas II and his only son, officially declared himself the Guardian of the Throne in 1924. Victoria went on a trip to the United S...
13 de abr. de 2023 · / Realeza. Victoria Melita: el divorcio de la nieta de la reina Victoria que escandalizó a la realeza. Se caso en 1894 con Ernesto de Hesse, del que se divorció para contraer matrimonio en 1905...
La Gran Duquesa Victoria Feodorovna de Rusia VA CI RRC GCStJ (nacida como Princesa Victoria Melita de Edimburgo; 25 de noviembre de 1876 – 2 de marzo de 1936), fue la tercera y segunda hija de Alfredo, duque de Sajonia-Coburgo y Gotha, y la Gran Duquesa María Alexandrovna. de Rusia.
La Casa de Sajonia-Coburgo y Gotha (en alemán: Haus Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha) es una dinastía alemana, la línea sajona de la Casa de Wettin que gobernó los ducados ernestinos, incluyendo el ducado de Sajonia-Coburgo y Gotha.
