The Coburg Conspiracy

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Duchy of Coburg was a small, impoverished German fiefdom ruled by the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family. Yet within just forty years – and following the marriage of first cousins Queen Victoria of Britain and Prince Albert – the Coburgs controlled many of the European monarchies, and by the beginning of the twentieth century, their genes could be found in no fewer than thirteen royal families.

How was this extraordinary rise to imperial power achieved?

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