Caroline Graham, Duchess of Montrose Caroline Graham, Duchess of Montrose Caroline Graham, Duchess of Montrose (10 August 1770 – 24 March 1847), formerly Lady Caroline Maria Montagu, was the second wife of James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose. She was the daughter of George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Dashwood. She married Montrose on 24 July 1790, at Kensington Palace. He was fifteen years her senior, and had previously been married to Lady Jemima Elizabeth, daughter of John Ashburnham, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham; their only child had died in infancy. The duke and duchess had six children: The duke,
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the second son of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He was second in the line of succession behind his elder brother, the Prince of Wales. Alfred was baptized by the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Howley, at the Private Chapel in Windsor Castle on 6 September 1844. His godparents were his mother's first cousin, Prince George of Cambridge (represented by his father, the Duke of Cambridge); his paternal aunt, the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (represented by his maternal grandmother, the Duchess of Kent); and Queen Victoria's half-brother, the Prince of Leiningen (represented by