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Queen Marie is the daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, uncle of George V, and of Grand Duchess Marie, daughter of Tsar Alexander III of Russia. She is, therefore, first cousin to King George, by birth a Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, by Royal Proclamation a Windsor,* by marriage a Hohenzollern, having married into the Catholic branch of that family when she became the bride of Crown Prince Ferdinand of Rumania...
...troubles of Princess Louise began at the age of 17 when she was married off to a drunken Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, twice her age. At 40 she accepted a brilliant Austrian cavalry officer (Count Mattachich) as her lover. After a duel and with the assistance of Emperor Francis Joseph, her lover married her. He finally died of drug. Meanwhile King Leopold disowned and endeavored to disinherit Princess Louise, with the result that she spent most of her later years at law. But Mattachich's name was on her lips at death...
...Almanach de Gotha, the social register of royalty, for years a part of every ambassador's kit, has quit publication...
...brief chronicles were sternly discriminatory. For years it ignored the upstart Buonaparte. Only when Napoleon threatened to confiscate the Gotha's archives, did it finally submit to printing his name in its imperial list...
James Monroe was the first American to be mentioned as a potentate. The Gotha has always indicated that American women who married great nobles were not of equal birth...