"Leopold's marriage [with the daughter of the British prince regent, Charlotte,] was only the first of a series of judicious alliances which soon gave Coburg an importance disproportionate to its size, and led Bismarck to describe it as the stud farm of Europe. If Prussia's main industry was war, Coburg's was matrimony". ("Queen Victoria: a portrait". Giles Rowan Saint Aubyn, 1991: 5)
pays: Great Britain
année: 1973
Yvert: 698
!["Leopold's marriage [with the daughter of the British prince regent, Charlotte,] was only the first of a series of judicious alliances which soon gave Coburg an importance disproportionate to its size, and led Bismarck to describe it as the stud farm of Europe. If Prussia's main industry was war, Coburg's was matrimony". ("Queen Victoria: a portrait". Giles Rowan Saint Aubyn, 1991: 5)](https://encyclopaediaphilatelica.net/storage/uploads/64e335cf0222c-php1qb4d1.jpeg)