Victoria was het enige kind van Eduard August, hertog van Kent (de vierde zoon van koning George III) en prinses Victoria van Saksen-Coburg-Saalfeld (een zuster van de latere Belgische koning Leopold I).
Victoria's father was Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of the reigning King of the United Kingdom, George III. Until 1817, Edward's niece, Princess Charlotte of Wales, was the only legitimate grandchild of George III.ParaCrawl Corpus ParaCrawl Corpus