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I first encountered Marian Theodore Charlotte Heidenreich von Siebold back in 2018 when I was researching the birth of the future Queen Victoria, ahead of this year’s bicentenary. Madame Siebold was the skilled German obstetrician who by an extraordinary circumstance, assisted at the births in 1819 of both Princess Victoria and that of her future husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, a mere three months later. In the Hessian State Archives in Darmstadt, I discovered a remarkable gift that was given to Madame Siebold by a grateful Duchess of Kent for the successful delivery of her child. The present was uniquely touching in that it combined the hair of both the Duchess and the baby Princess Victoria in the form of a gold brooch set with blue and white lilies. Madame Siebold is still commemorated today in Darmstadt; the Heidenreichstrasse is named after her and the Char ....

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