Feodora of Leiningen

Anna Feodora Auguste Charlotte Wilhelmine, better known as Feodora, was born on 7 December 1807, in Amorbach, Bavaria. She was the only daughter of Emich Carl, Prince of Leiningen and his wife, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Emich Carl died in 1817, when Feodora was just 7.

On 29 May 1818, Victoria remarried, this time to Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn. The following year, the whole household moved to the United Kingdom, because the now Duchess was pregnant and the new potential heir should be born on British soil.

Feodora and her younger half-sister, the future Queen Victoria, enjoyed a very close relationship and Victoria was devoted to her elder sister. Despite this, Feodora was eager to live their home at Kensington Palace permanency, as her only happy time was driving out with Victoria and her governess, the Baroness Louise Lehzen, when she could speak and look as she liked without her mother's control.

In early 1828, Feodora married Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg at Kensington Palace; they had only met twice before their wedding. After their honeymoon, she returned to her native Germany, where she lived until her death. However, Ernst had no domain, as the principality had been mediatised to Württemberg in 1806. The couple lived in Schloss Langenburg, a large and uncomfortable castle.

Feodora would have three sons and three daughters: Carl Ludwig, Elise, Hermann Ernst, Victor, Adelheid and Feodora Victoria. She maintained a lifelong correspondence with her sister and Victoria would grant her an allowance whenever she could visit the United Kingdom.

Feodora died on 23 September 1872, in Baden-Baden; she was 64 years old.

Feodora of Leiningen
Sir William Ross
(c. 1838)

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