Talk:Huntington-Whiteley baronets

Married into royalty

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Victoria Huntington-Whitely (mother of Leopold - Heir Apparent to the baronetcy) is a grandaughter of Prince Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha - the controversial grandson of Queen Victoria who was despatched to Coburg in 1900 to assume the dukedom on the death of of Prince Alfred (his Heir had died in tragic circumstances and the next male in line - Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught - refused the title for both himself and his son).