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e. Charles Edward (Leopold Charles Edward George Albert, German: Leopold Carl Eduard Georg Albert; 19 July 1884 – 6 March 1954) was the last sovereign duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, from 30 July 1900 until 1918. A male-line grandson of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, he was also until 1919 a Prince of the United Kingdom and from birth held ...
His elder son, Prince William, duke of Cambridge, is heir apparent. The dynastic name Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (German: Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha, or Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha) was that of Victoria’s German-born husband, Albert, prince consort of Great Britain and Ireland. Their eldest son was Edward VII.
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 ...
Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the last sovereign duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, from 30 July 1900 until 1918. A male-line grandson of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, he was also until 1919 a Prince of the United Kingdom and from birth held the British titles of Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence and Baron Arklow.[1] Charles ...
In an attempt to make the royal name easier to pronounce for the British subjects, the house was renamed Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Just a few years later, in 1910, Edward VII died, and his son ...
The ex Duke was the head of the house of Saxe -Coburg and Gotha, who had a deep connection with every other monarchy in Europe. The head of the Saxe -Coburg and Gotha royal house was...
King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (1841–1910), reigned as king 1901-1910; Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Edinburgh (1844–1900), reigned 1893–1900. Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874–1899), predeceased father.
Saxe-Coburg renamed Windsor Queen Victoria died in 1901, succeeded by her eldest son Edward VII, the first English king from the German dynasty of Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha.
On November 9, 1918, after the German Empire lost World War I, the Workers’ and Soldiers Council of Gotha, deposed the last Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Charles Edward, a grandson of Queen Victoria. Five days later, he signed a declaration relinquishing his rights to the throne.
Charles Edward was a controversial figure in the United Kingdom due to his status as the sovereign Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, which was part of the German Empire, during World War I. On 14 November 1918, however, after a revolution in Germany, he was forced to abdicate as Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and lost his rights to the ducal throne.