Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
German princess of the House of Wettin
Died when: 44 years 199 days (534 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (Antoinette Ernestine Amalie; 28 August 1779 – 14 March 1824) was a German princess of the House of Wettin.By marriage, she was a Duchess of Württemberg.
Through her eldest surviving son, she is the ancestress of today's (Catholic) House of Württemberg.Born in Coburg, she was the second daughter of Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Countess Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf.
She was also the elder sister of King Leopold I of Belgium and the aunt of both Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert.
Her maternal grandparents were Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuß-Ebersdorf and Karoline Ernestine von Erbach-Schönberg, and her paternal grandparents were Ernst Friedrich and Antoinette of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel.
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