2 new QVDs: Princess Feodora zu Leiningen and Caspian Prinz von Preussen

ICYMI: @ Svenja/Castleholic It is a girl for the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Leiningen as Princess Viktoria Luise gave birth to  Feodora. on August 16th in Frankfurt-am-Main.  This is the second daughter of the Hereditary Prince and Princess.   Their first child, Alexandra, was born on February 28, 2020. https://royalmusingsblogspotcom.blogspot.com/2020/03/another-qvd.html Embed from Getty Images   The name honors Queen Victoria's older half-sister, HSH Princess Anna Feodora Auguste Charlotte Wilhelmine (1807-1872), who was the second child of Princess Victoire of Saxe-Coburg-Saafeld and Emich Carl of Leiningen, who died in 1814.   Three years after her husband's death, the widowed Princess of Leiningen married Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (1767-1820), fourth son of King George III.   The future Queen Victoria was born on May 24, 1819.     Princess Feodora married  Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1794–1860) in Kensingtom Palace.  This marriage had been largely arranged by the Prince's first cousin, Queen Adelaide, the consort of King William IV. https://royalmusingsblogspotcom.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-marriage-of-princess-feodore.html Feodora and her husband were the parents of six children, the youngest of whom was named Feodora (1839-1872). She married  Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen.   Three of Feo's granddaughters were also named for her:  HSH Feodora Viktoria Alberta of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1866 -1932), daughter of HSH Hermann, Prince of Leiningen, Countess Feodora (Feo) Georgina Maud Gleichen (1861 – 1922), daughter of HSH Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Count Gleichen and HH Princess Feodora Adelheid of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1874-1910), daughter of Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg who was the wife of Friedrich VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenberg.   Neither Countess (later Lady) Feodora nor Princess Feodora of Schleswig-Holstein married. Primces Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Emich, 5th Prince of Leiningen In July 1894,  Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg married her second cousin Emich 5th Prince of Leiningen (1866-1939)   Prince Emich was born at Osborne House in 1866.  One of his godparents was his great-aunt, Princess Feodora, the Dowager Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. The new Princess Feodora has four lines of descent from Queen Victoria.  She is also descended from Victoria's two half-siblings,  Carl, Prince of Leiningen, and Princess Feodora. https://royalmusingsblogspotcom.blogspot.com/2017/09/a-royal-marriage-princess-viktoria.html https://royalmusingsblogspotcom.blogspot.com/2017/09/viktoria-luise-and-ferdinand-of.html https://royalmusingsblogspotcom.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-hereditary-prince-and-princess-of.html On August 21, 2021,  Viktoria Luise's sister-in-law, Princess Angelina, wife of Prince Joachim Albrecht, gave birth to a son, Caspian Friedrich Joachim Albrecht.He was born in Berlin.   This is the second child for the couple.  They have a daughter, Georgina Angelina Sylvia Ehrengard, who was born September 17, 2018 in Berlin. https://royalmusingsblogspotcom.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-marriage-of-prince-joachim-of.html
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