Countess Viktoria-Luise of Solms-Baruth (
Christened as ''Countess Viktoria-Luise Friederike Karoline Mathilde of Solms-Baruth''; 13 March 1921 – 1 March 2003) was a German noblewoman.
Early life
Countess Viktoria-Luise was born at Schloss Casel in
Casel, Weimar Republic, to Count Hans of
Solms-Baruth
Solms-Baruth was a Lower Lusatian state country, from 16th century until 1945, ruled by the Baruth branch of the House of Solms.
History
The House of Solms had its origins at Solms, Hesse, and ruled several of the many minor states of the Holy R ...
and
. Her maternal grandparents were
, and
.
Marriages
On 25 January 1942, Viktoria-Louise married her first cousin, Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, at the Pfarr- und Patronatskirche Kasel. She and Friedrich Josias divorced on 19 September 1946.
[C. Arnold McNaughton, ''The Book of Kings: A Royal Genealogy'', in 3 volumes (London, UK: Garnstone Press, 1973), volume 1, page 25.] They had one child:
*
Andreas, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (21 March 1943 – 3 April 2025).
She married, secondly, Richard Carlyle Babb Whitten on 6 November 1947 at Steinwänd bei Werfen, Austria. They were remarried in a religious ceremony on 14 February 1948 at
San Francisco, California
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...
.
They had one child:
*Victoria Astrid Solms Whitten (b. 23 August 1948 in Salzburg, Austria).
Further reading
A book titled ''From Tyranny to Freedom – Memoirs of My Life by Countess Viktoria-Luise of Solms-Baruth'' was published in 2016 based on Viktoria's memoirs.
Ancestry
References
1921 births
2003 deaths
People from Dahme-Spreewald
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Princesses by marriage
Emigrants from Allied-occupied Germany to the United States
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