Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Kohary

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Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld-Kohary (February 14, 1822, Vienna - December 10, 1867, Claremont House, England) was the daughter of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Princess Antonie de Kohary. Her father was the second son of Francis Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf.

On 27 April 1840, in Saint-Cloud, she married Louis d'Orléans, Duc de Nemours. The Duc and Duchesse d'Nemours had the following children:

• Louis Philippe Marie Ferdinand Gaston, comte d'Eu (1842-1922), who married Isabella, eldest daughter and heiress of Don Pedro II of Brazil.
• Ferdinand Philippe Marie, duc d'Alençon (July 12, 1844 - June 29, 1910), who married Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria (1847-1897), sister of Elizabeth, Empress of Austria ("Sisi"), and who had been for a time engaged to Ludwig II of Bavaria
• Margaret (1846-1893), who married Prince Ladislaus Czartoryski
• Blanche (1857-1932)