Father Georg I Frederick Karl, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Mother Luise Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
Son of Georg I Frederick Karl, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen and Luise Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. Bernhard was a younger brother of Queen Adelaide of the United Kingdom and Ida, Princess Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
His mother acted as regent after her husband's death in 1824, until her son came of age in 1831. [1]
Bernhard II married Princess Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) on 23 Mar 1825. They had two children.
Bernhard was forced to abdicate the throne after the Prussian War in 1866 to his son Georg. He died on 3 December 1882.
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