Countess Viktoria-Luise of Solms-Baruth

Countess Viktoria-Luise of Solms-Baruth (Christened as Countess Viktoria-Luise Friederike Karoline Mathilde of Solms-Baruth; 13 March 1921 – 1 March 2003)

Early life

Countess Viktoria-Luise was born at Schloss Casel in Casel, Weimar Republic to Count Hans of Solms-Baruth and Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. Her maternal grandparents were Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.

Marriages

On 25 January 1942, Viktoria-Louise married her first cousin (by virtue of their common maternal grandparents) Prince Friedrich Josias of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the youngest child of Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg at the Pfarr- und Patronatskirche Kasel. She and Friedrich Josias divorced on 19 September 1946. They had one child:

• Andreas, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 21 March 1943)

She married, secondly, Richard Whitten on 6 November 1947 at Steinwänd bei Werfen, Austria. They were remarried in a religious ceremony on 14 February 1948 at San Francisco, California. They had one child

• Victoria Astrid Solms Whitten (born Salzburg, Austria, 23 August 1948).

Titles

• 1921-1942: HIllH Countess Viktoria-Luise of Solms-Baruth
• 1942-1946: HH Princess Viktoria-Luise, The Hereditary Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Countess of Solms-Baruth
• 1946-1947: HIllH Princess Viktoria-Luise, Hereditary Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Countess of Solms-Baruth
• 1947-2003: HIllH Countess Viktoria-Luise of Solms-Baruth, Mrs. Whitten

Ancestry

Family of Countess Viktoria-Luise of Solms-Baruth

16. Count Friedrich of Solms-Baruth               8. Friedrich, Prince of Solms-Baruth                       17. Countess Bertha of Solms-Baruth               4. Friedrich, Prince of Solms-Baruth                             18. Count Ferenc Teleki de Szék               9. Countess Rosa Teleki de Szek                       19. Baroness Erzsébet Bánffy de Losoncz               2. Count Hans of Solms-Baruth                                   20. Hans Heinrich X of Hochberg, Prince of Plesse               10. Hans Heinrich XI of Hochberg, Prince of Plesse                       21. Ida von Stechow               5. Countess Luise of Hochberg                             22. Count Eduard of Kleist, Baron of Zützen               11. Marie von Kleist                       23. Countess Luise of Hochberg, Baroness of Fürstenstein               1. Countess Viktoria-Luise of Solms-Baruth                                         24. Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg               12. Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg                       25. Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Cassel               6. Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg                             26. George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe               13. Princess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe                       27. Princess Ida of Waldeck and Pyrmont               3. Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg                                   28. Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg               14. Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg                       29. Countess Louise-Sophie Danneskiold-Samsøe               7. Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg                             30. Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg               15. Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg                       31. Princess Feodora of Leiningen

External links

• Victoria Louise Frederica Caroline Matildhe Gräfin zu Solms-Baruth profile, thepeerage.com; accessed 15 April 2014.
• Profile, Gräfin Viktoria-Luise zu Solms-Baruth, genealogics.org; accessed 15 April 2014.