Marriage Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

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ernest s wife princess alexandrine of baden. alexandrine remain fiercely devoted ernest during marriage, believing childlessness fault.


various candidates put forward possible wife ernest. own father wanted him high-up wife, such russian grand duchess. 1 possibility princess clémentine of orléans, daughter of louis philippe i, whom met while visiting court @ tuileries. such marriage have required conversion lutheranism roman catholicism however, , consequently nothing came of it. later married cousin prince august of saxe-coburg , gotha. ernest considered dowager queen maria christina possible husband young daughter isabella ii of spain, , queen victoria cousin princess augusta of cambridge.


in karlsruhe on 3 may 1842, ernest married 21-year-old princess alexandrine of baden. eldest daughter of leopold, grand duke of baden , princess sophie of sweden, daughter of deposed king gustav iv adolf of sweden. though gave consent, father disappointed second son did not more advance concerns of coburg. marriage did not produce issue, though ernest apparently fathered @ least 3 illegitimate children in later years.


ernest had suffered venereal disease in late teens , twenties, consequence of living wild, promiscuous lifestyle. these qualities had inherited under tutelage of father, took sons sample pleasures of paris , berlin, albert s horror , shame . ernest had been visibly deteriorating in appearance result sarah lyttelton, lady-in-waiting of queen victoria, observed @ windsor in 1839 thin , hollow-cheeked , pale, , no likeness brother, nor beauty. has fine dark eyes , black hair, , light figure, , great of spirit , eagerness . later year, albert counseled brother against finding wife until condition recovered. further warned continued promiscuity leave ernest incapable of fathering children. historians believe while himself able father other children, disease rendered young wife infertile.


as years went further childlessness, ernest became more distant wife, , continually unfaithful. though alexandrine continued devoted, choosing ignore relationships aware of, loyalty became increasingly baffling outside immediate family. 1859, after seventeen years of childlessness, ernest took no further interest in wife.








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