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Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein

Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1905 to 1918

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 20, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg was Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as the consort of Duke Charles Edward from their marriage on 11 October 1905 until his abdication on 14 November 1918.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein” is duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1905 to 1918. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Princess, Victoria and Adelaide, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1905, 1918—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Princess, Victoria and Adelaide is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1905 to 1918” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 20, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1905 and 1918.

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This entry incorporates text from “Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.