Princess Feodora of Leiningen
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Princess Feodora of Leiningen (7 December 1807 -23 September 1872) was the only daughter of Karl, Prince of Leiningen (1763–1814) and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1786-1861). Feodora was also an older maternal half-sister of Queen Victoria through the second marriage of her mother.
On 29 May 1818 her mother remarried to Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III. The following year she, along with the rest of the household, was taken to the United Kingdom as the Duchess' pregnancy came to an end, so that the new potential heir to the British Throne could be born on British soil.
By all accounts, Feodora enjoyed a very close relationship with her half-sister.
In 1828, she returned to the German Confederation and married Ernst, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1794-1860) (the prince had no actual domain as the principality had been mediatised to Württemberg in 1806). She maintained a lifelong correspondence with her half-sister.
She had six children:
- Carl Ludwig Wilhelm Leopold, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (25 October 1829 - 16 May 1907). Succeeded to the title on 12 April 1860 but abdicated his rights in favor of his younger brother on 21 April of the same year.
- Princess Elise of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (8 November 1830 - 27 February 1850).
- Hermann Ernst Franz Bernhard VI, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (31 August 1832 - 8 March 1913).
- Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (11 December 1833 - 31 December 1891), who settled in Great Britain and made a morganatic marriage.
- Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (20 July 1835 - 25 January 1900). Married Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein.
- Princess Feodora Victoria Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langeburg (7 July 1839 - 10 February 1872). Married George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen.
