Also, Victoria Adelaide's father was the eldest son of Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and a nephew of Christian IX of Denmark.

One month before the birth of Victoria Adelaide, Friedrich Ferdinand had succeeded to the headship of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and the title of duke upon the death of his father on 27 November 1885.

Charles Edward was the only son of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany by his wife Princess Helena of Waldeck and a grandson of Queen Victoria.

[2][3] As Charles Edward was considered to have an "ambiguous" attitude towards women, according to historian Karena Urbach, his family decided he needed an arranged marriage at a young age.

The local newspaper commented that the people of the Duchy "will always prefer to welcome a princess born into their own tribe as mother of the country [Duchess] than a stranger" [5] Victoria Adelaide was described, in her grandson's memoirs, as the leading part of the marriage and the Duke would initially come to her for advice.

[9] At a 1929 local election in Coburg, Victoria Adelaide attended Nazi party campaign events alongside her husband.

She states that Victoria Adelaide's views aligned with her husband's and the former duchess maintained her support for Nazism into the postwar period.