Her later husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, was born in Germany on 26 August of the same year. Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, at the age of just 18, from which point on she ...

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that today in the country of which he was Prince Consort the name of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, husband to Queen Victoria and ancestor of a large slice of European royalties, should be ...

In 1863, Edward VII, who was then known as Prince Albert Edward ... changing the family name of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor—the name the royal family uses to this day.” ...

brother of the reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, togeher with the Duke of Connaught's son. Prince Arthur, have renounced their claims to the Coburg succession in favor of the Duke of Albany ...

Queen Victoria's marriage in 1840 to her 20-year-old cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha posed an immediate problem: what was the purpose of her new husband, other than providing an heir to the ...

as it was home to Queen Victoria's husband Prince AlbertCredit: Getty I’m in the German town of Coburg in the Bavaria region, home to Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who most of us will know ...

Queen Victoria married Prince Albert (Prince Franz August Karl Albert Emanuel) son of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (later Saxe-Coburg-Gotha), and Duchess Louise of Saxe-Coburg-Altenburg.

As Prince Harry explained in his memoir, Spare, it is “a German tradition that survived the anglicizing of the family surname from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.” The royals changed their name ...