Louise Lehzen

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Louise Lehzen

British aristocrat

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influence on Victoria

In Victoria: Lineage and early life
…governess, Louise (afterward the Baroness) Lehzen, a native of Coburg. An important father figure to the orphaned princess was her uncle Leopold, her mother’s brother, who lived at Claremont, near Esher, Surrey, until he became king of the Belgians in 1831.
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