Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg was the wife of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and the mother of Duke Ernst II and Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria.
Background
Princess Louise was the only daughter of Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and his first wife Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, daughter of Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (her namesake).
Career
She is also the paternal great-great-great grandmother of Elizabeth World War II Seven months later, on 18 October 1826, Louise secretly married in Saint Wendel her former lover, the Baron Alexander von Hanstein (later created Count of Pölzig and Beiersdrof). Louise died of cancer on 30 August 1831, when she was only 30 years old. Years after her death, Queen Victoria described Louise in an 1864 memorandum: "The princess is described as having been very handsome, though very small.
Fair, with blue eyes.
And Prince Albert is said to have been extremely like her".