This year marked the 193 rd anniversary of the swearing-in of Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who became the first king of the Belgians on 21 July 1831. It also marked 11 years of King Philippe being on ...

As Prince Harry explained in his memoir, Spare, it is “a German tradition that survived the anglicizing of the family surname from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.” The royals changed their name ...

Her marriage to the father, Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, followed shortly (she was given an aristocratic title, becoming Constanze von Ruttenstein, which entitled her to assets).

The frail, haemophiliac Leopold died aged 30 in 1884 ... As the last ruling Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Charles Edward went on to make a string of unfortunate choices. When the First World ...