Social Victorians/People/Leopold

Prince Leopold

Also Known As

• Family name: Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Albert's patronymic
• Prince Leopold
• Duke of Albany
  • HRH Prince Leopold George Duncan Albert (24 May 1881 – 28 March 1884)
• Duchess of Albany
  • HRH Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Duchess of Albany (27 April 1882 – 11 October 1905)
• Dowager Duchess of Albany
  • HRH Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Duchess of Albany (11 October 1905 – 1 September 1922)
• Earl of Clarence
• Baron Arklow

Demographics

• Nationality: he, English; she, Waldeck (now Germany)

Residences

• Claremont House

Family

• Prince Leopold George Duncan Albert, Duke of Albany (7 April 1853 – 28 March 1884)
• Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont (17 February 1861 – 1 September 1922)

1. Princess Alice of Albany (25 February 1883 – 3 January 1981)
2. "Charlie," Prince Charles Edward, Duke of Albany (19 July 1884 – 6 March 1954)

Relations

• Queen Victoria and Albert's 8th child, 4th son

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies

Friends

Alice Liddell Edith Liddell Princess Frederica of Hanover

Princess Helena

• Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

Organizations

• The Royal Mob
• Oxford University

Timeline

1882 April 27, Prince Leopold and Princess Helena married.

1890 July 30, Prince Charles Edward became Hereditary Prince of Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha after his uncle, Affie (Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, etc.), died.

1897 July 2, Prince Leopold had died (in 1884), but Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont did not attend the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball? Princess Alice of Albany would have been 14, and Princes Charles Edward, 13.

Bibliography

• "Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany." Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Leopold,_Duke_of_Albany (accessed April 2019).
• "Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont." Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Helena_of_Waldeck_and_Pyrmont (accessed 2019).