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| | Victoria of the United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | She was born on May 24, 1819, to Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, the fourth son of King George III, and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield, sister of King Leopold I of the Belgians and widow of HSH Emich, 2nd Prince of Leiningen. |
 | | Following the death of Leopold's wife, Princess Charlotte Augusta, in childbirth, the only legitimate child of King George IV, in 1817, there had been a scramble by the king's brothers to abandon their mistresses, marry, and beget an heir to the realm; Edward, marrying at the age of fifty, was the one who supposedly succeeded. |
 | | This theory is not perceived as credible, however, as a male who is not a hæmophiliac cannot carry the gene for hæmophilia. |
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