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Born 17 January 1936 (age 88)
Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany ( 1936-01-17 ) Spouse Prince Johannes Heinrich of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Issue Prince Johannes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha House House of Wettin (by birth)
House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Kohary
(by marriage) Father Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen Mother Princess Elisabeth Helene of Thurn and Taxis | ||
Princess Mathilde of Saxony, Duchess of Saxony (German: Mathilde Maria Josepha Anna Xaveria, Prinzessin von Sachsen, Herzogin zu Sachsen; born 17 January 1936 in Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany) is a Princess of Saxony and member of the House of Wettin by birth and a Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as consort to Prince Johannes Heinrich of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Mathilde is the fifth and youngest child of Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen and his wife, Princess Elisabeth Helene of Thurn and Taxis, and a younger sister of Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen, the late head of the Royal House of Saxony and senior claimant to the defunct throne of the Kingdom of Saxony.
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Marriage and issue
Mathilde married Prince Johannes Heinrich of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, eldest son of Prince Rainer of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and his first wife Johanna Károlyi de Károly-Patty, civilly in Munich on 15 October 1968 and religiously at Andechs Abbey on 12 November 1968. Mathilde and Johannes Heinrich divorced in 1993. The couple had one son: