Laura Williamina (Seymour) Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1832-1912)

Lady Laura Williamina Hohenlohe-Langenburg formerly Seymour

Born 17 Dec 1832 in England

Ancestors

Daughter of George Francis Seymour RN and Georgiana Mary (Berkeley) Seymour

Sister of Francis George Hugh Seymour, Georgiana Isabella (Seymour) Corkran, Henry Seymour, Horatia Louisa Seymour, Emily Charlotte (Seymour) Ormsby-Gore, Matilda Horatia (Seymour) Rice and William Frederick Ernest Seymour

Wife of Victor Ferdinand Francis Eugene Gustaf Adolf Constantine Frederick Hohenlohe-Langenburg — married 24 Jan 1861 in London, England

Descendants

Mother of Feodora Georgina Maud Gleichen and Victoria Leopoldine Ada Laura (van Hohenlohe-Langenburg) Machell

Died 13 Feb 1912 at age 79 in England

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2 Marriage and family
3 Princess Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
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Biography

Princess Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Countess von Gleichen.

"Laura Williamina Seymour (17 December 1832 – 13 February 1912) was a British-born aristocrat whose marriage to a German prince naturalised in England made her a kinswoman of the British Royal Family and a member of the royal court."

Marriage and family

"Her noble antecedents in the United Kingdom did not suffice to permit Laura to contract an equal marriage with a cadet of a German mediatised family of princely rank in 19th century Europe. Almost two weeks before her morganatic marriage to Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (a half-nephew of Queen Victoria who had served under her father's military command) on 24 January 1861, she was created Countess von Gleichen by Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha."

Princess Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

"When the Countess von Gleichen's brother, Francis, inherited his cousin's Marquessate of Hertford in 1870, the Queen granted her the rank and style of the daughter of a marquess by Royal Warrant of Precedence, entitling her to prefix Lady to her name. However, she continued to use her comital title until 15 December 1885, when it was gazetted in the Court Circular that the Queen had granted her permission to share, within the British Empire, her husband's princely title. Henceforth she was known as HSH Princess Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, although this changed neither her legal rank nor her title in the German Empire. In accordance with the original Coburg grant, her children were also Count/Countess von Gleichen and, although granted unique precedence before the daughters and younger sons of English dukes in 1913, they never received authorisation to share their parents' princely style at the Court of St. James's, and were known by their comital title (dropping, however, the von) until George V Anglicised their style in 1917, along with the styles of members of his own family who bore German titles."