Grandchildren of Victoria and Albert

This is a list of the 42 grandchildren of the British Queen Victoria (1819–1901, Queen from 1837, married 1840) and her husband Prince Albert (the Prince Consort, 1819–1861), each of whom was therefore either a brother, a sister, or a first cousin to each of the others. It also lists Victoria's and Albert's 9 children and 85 great-grandchildren.

Overview

Victoria and Albert had 42 grandchildren altogether (20 male and 22 female), of whom two (the youngest sons of Prince Alfred

Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the third Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and reigned from 1893 to 1900. He was also a member of the British Royal Family, the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha...

and Princess Helena

Princess Helena of the United Kingdom

Princess Helena was a member of the British Royal Family, the third daughter and fifth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert....

) were stillborn

Stillbirth

A stillbirth occurs when a fetus has died in the uterus. The Australian definition specifies that fetal death is termed a stillbirth after 20 weeks gestation or the fetus weighs more than . Once the fetus has died the mother still has contractions and remains undelivered. The term is often used in...

, and two more (Prince Alexander John of Wales

Prince Alexander John of Wales

Prince Alexander John Charles Albert of Wales was the youngest son and sixth child of Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and his wife Princess Alexandra, Princess of Wales and grandson of Queen Victoria and Christian IX of Denmark.-Life:Prince Alexander John Charles Albert of Wales was born...

and Prince Harold of Schleswig-Holstein) died shortly after birth. Their first grandchild was the future German Emperor William II, who was born to their first-born child, Victoria, the Princess Royal

Victoria, Princess Royal

The Princess Victoria, Princess Royal was the eldest child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert. She was created Princess Royal of the United Kingdom in 1841. She became German Empress and Queen of Prussia by marriage to German Emperor Frederick III...

, on 27 January 1859; the youngest was Prince Maurice of Battenberg

Prince Maurice of Battenberg

Prince Maurice of Battenberg, KCVO, was a member of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the extended British Royal Family, the youngest grandchild of Queen Victoria...

, born on 3 October 1891 to Princess Beatrice

Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom

The Princess Beatrice was a member of the British Royal Family. She was the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Juan Carlos, King of Spain, is her great-grandson...

(1857–1944) who was herself the last child born to Victoria and Albert and the last child to die. The last of Victoria and Albert's grandchildren to die was Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone

Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone

Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone was a member of the British Royal Family. She was the longest-lived Princess of the Blood Royal of the British Royal Family and the last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria...

, (born 25 February 1883 to the Duke

Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany

The Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany was the eighth child and fourth son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Leopold was later created Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence, and Baron Arklow...

and Duchess of Albany), who succumbed to old age on 3 January 1981, almost exactly eighty years after her grandmother's death.

Just as Victoria and Albert shared one grandfather (Duke Francis of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld) and one grandmother (Countess Augusta Reuss) in common, two pairs of their grandchildren married each other. In 1888, Princess Irene of Hesse

Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine

Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine was the third child and third daughter of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine. Her maternal grandparents were Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert...

, whose mother was Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom

The Princess Alice was a member of the British royal family, the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.Alice's education was devised by Albert's close friend and adviser, Baron Stockmar...

, married Prince Heinrich of Prussia

Prince Heinrich of Prussia

Prince Henry of Prussia was a younger brother of German Emperor William II and a Prince of Prussia...

,
a son of Victoria's first-born child, Victoria

Victoria, Princess Royal

, the British Princess Royal and German Empress. Another of Princess Alice's children, Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse, married Princess Victoria Melita, a daughter of Alice's brother Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

, in 1894, but divorced in 1901.
Prince Albert, the Prince Consort, (26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) lived long enough to see only one of his children (the Princess Royal) married and two of his grandchildren born (William, 1859–1941, and his sister Princess Charlotte of Prussia

Princess Charlotte of Prussia

Princess Charlotte of Prussia , Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen was the second child born to Prince Friedrich of Prussia and Princess Victoria...

, 1860–1919), while Queen Victoria (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) lived long enough to see not only all her grandchildren, but many of her 85 great-grandchildren as well. (Three of Victoria's 56 great-grandsons were stillborn, and one of her 29 great-granddaughters was born out of wedlock.)

Victoria, the Princess Royal and first child of Victoria and Albert (21 November 1840 – 5 August 1901), was not only mother to their first grandchild, Kaiser Wilhelm II, she was also grandmother both to the first of their great-grandchildren to be born, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen

Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen

Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen was born at Potsdam, was the only child of Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen and his wife Charlotte of Prussia...

(19 May 1879 – 26 August 1945), daughter of Princess Charlotte

Princess Charlotte of Prussia

Princess Charlotte of Prussia , Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen was the second child born to Prince Friedrich of Prussia and Princess Victoria...

(Queen Victoria's first granddaughter), and to the last of their great-granddaughters to die, Lady Katherine Brandram

Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark

Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark was the third daughter and sixth child of King Constantine I of Greece and Queen Sophie .-Early life:Her paternal grandparents were King George I of Greece, child of King Christian IX of...

(4 May 1913 – 2 October 2007), daughter of Charlotte's sister Princess Sophie, Queen of Greece. Since Lady Katherine's death in 2007, the only living great-grandchild of Queen Victoria has been Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg, born on the 31st of October, 1916, to Victoria's granddaughter, Princess Margaret of Connaught

Princess Margaret of Connaught

Princess Margaret of Connaught was the daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, third son of Queen Victoria, and his wife, Princess Luise Margarete of Prussia...

, whose father was Queen Victoria's son Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught.

Queen Victoria's own death in January 1901 was preceded by the deaths of three of her own children (Princess Alice

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom

in December 1878, Prince Leopold

Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany

in March 1884, and Prince Alfred in July 1900) and soon followed by the Princess Royal's death in August 1901. Aside from the four boys who died as infants, Queen Victoria had survived several of her grandchildren:

Prince Sigismund of Prussia (born 1864), who died in 1866 of meningitis
Meningitis
Meningitis is inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, known collectively as the meninges. The inflammation may be caused by infection with viruses, bacteria, or other microorganisms, and less commonly by certain drugs...

.
Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine
Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine
Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine , , was the haemophiliac second son of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, thus he is a grandson of Queen Victoria...

(b. 1870), a haemophiliac
Haemophilia in European royalty
Haemophilia figured prominently in the history of European royalty in the 19th and 20th centuries. Britain's Queen Victoria, through two of her five daughters , passed the mutation to various royal houses across the continent, including the royal families of Spain, Germany and Russia. Victoria's...

, who died in 1873 after falling from his mother's bedroom window. He bled to death a few hours later.
Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1874), who died in 1878 from an outbreak of diphtheria
Diphtheria
Diphtheria is an upper respiratory tract illness caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae, a facultative anaerobic, Gram-positive bacterium. It is characterized by sore throat, low fever, and an adherent membrane on the tonsils, pharynx, and/or nasal cavity...

.
Prince Waldemar of Prussia (b. 1868), who died in 1879, also of diphtheria
Diphtheria
Diphtheria is an upper respiratory tract illness caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae, a facultative anaerobic, Gram-positive bacterium. It is characterized by sore throat, low fever, and an adherent membrane on the tonsils, pharynx, and/or nasal cavity...

.
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence (b. 1864), who died in 1892 of an outbreak of influenza
Influenza
Influenza, commonly referred to as the flu, is an infectious disease caused by RNA viruses of the family Orthomyxoviridae , that affects birds and mammals...

.
Prince Alfred of Edinburgh (b. 1874), who died in 1899 after injuries he sustained by attempting suicide by shooting himself with a revolver.
Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein
Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein
Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein GCB GCVO DSO KStJ was a member of the British Royal Family. He was the eldest son of Princess Helena, third daughter of Queen Victoria....

(b. 1867), who died of malaria
Malaria
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals caused by eukaryotic protists of the genus Plasmodium. The disease results from the multiplication of Plasmodium parasites within red blood cells, causing symptoms that typically include fever and headache, in severe cases...

in October 1900, while on active service in South Africa during the Boer War
Boer War
The Boer Wars were two wars fought between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics, the Oranje Vrijstaat and the Republiek van Transvaal ....

.

Ancestors of Victoria and Albert

Victoria and Albert had a common grandfather, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, who was father both of Albert's father Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and of Victoria's mother (and Ernest I's sister), Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was the mother of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.-Early life:...

.

Duke Francis → Duke Ernest I → Prince Albert

Duke Francis → Princess Victoria → Queen Victoria

Another of Victoria's (but not Albert's) grandfathers was King George III

George III of the United Kingdom

George III was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of these two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death...

, father of Victoria's father, the Duke of Kent, and his brothers King George IV

George IV of the United Kingdom

George IV was the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and also of Hanover from the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten years later...

and King William IV

William IV of the United Kingdom

William IV was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death...

Marriage of Victoria and Albert

Queen Victoria (who had ascended to the throne on 20 June 1837 and been crowned on 28 June 1838) was married to Prince Albert on 10 February 1840 by William Howley, the Archbishop of Canterbury

Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group...

, in the Chapel Royal of St James's Palace in Westminster

Westminster

Westminster is an area of central London, within the City of Westminster, England. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, southwest of the City of London and southwest of Charing Cross...

(London). (Albert died fourteen-and-a-half years before Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India on 1 May 1876.)

The Marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
	Name	Birth	Death	Marriage and children
	[Alexandrina] Victoria Victoria of the United Kingdom Victoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India.... , Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, later Empress of India	24 May 1819 Kensington Palace Kensington Palace Kensington Palace is a royal residence set in Kensington Gardens in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. It has been a residence of the British Royal Family since the 17th century and is the official London residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke and... , London	22 January 1901 Osborne House Osborne House Osborne House is a former royal residence in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK. The house was built between 1845 and 1851 for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as a summer home and rural retreat.... , Isle of Wight Isle of Wight The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest island of England, located in the English Channel, on average about 2–4 miles off the south coast of the county of Hampshire, separated from the mainland by a strait called the Solent...	Married 10 February 1840 at St. James' Palace, Westminster Westminster Westminster is an area of central London, within the City of Westminster, England. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, southwest of the City of London and southwest of Charing Cross... (London) 4 sons, 5 daughters (including British King Edward VII Edward VII of the United Kingdom Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910... and German Empress Victoria); 20 grandsons (of whom 2 were still-born Stillbirth A stillbirth occurs when a fetus has died in the uterus. The Australian definition specifies that fetal death is termed a stillbirth after 20 weeks gestation or the fetus weighs more than . Once the fetus has died the mother still has contractions and remains undelivered. The term is often used in... ), 22 granddaughters (including British King George V George V of the United Kingdom George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936.... , German Emperor Wilhelm II, Russian Empress Alexandra, and the Queens of Norway, Greece, Romania and Spain.)
	Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (The Prince Consort)	26 August 1819 Rosenau Castle Schloss Rosenau, Coburg Schloss Rosenau, called in English The Rosenau or Rosenau Palace, is a former castle, converted into a ducal country house, between the towns of Coburg and Rödental, formerly in Saxe-Coburg, now lying in Bavaria, Germany.... , Coburg Coburg Coburg is a town located on the Itz River in Bavaria, Germany. Its 2005 population was 42,015. Long one of the Thuringian states of the Wettin line, it joined with Bavaria by popular vote in 1920... (Germany)	14 December 1861 Windsor Castle Windsor Castle Windsor Castle is a medieval castle and royal residence in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, notable for its long association with the British royal family and its architecture. The original castle was built after the Norman invasion by William the Conqueror. Since the time of Henry I it... , Berkshire Berkshire Berkshire is a historic county in the South of England. It is also often referred to as the Royal County of Berkshire because of the presence of the royal residence of Windsor Castle in the county; this usage, which dates to the 19th century at least, was recognised by the Queen in 1957, and...

Children of Victoria and Albert

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| (from left to right:) Princes Alfred

Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

and Albert Edward

Edward VII of the United Kingdom

Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910...

; The Queen and the Prince Consort; Princesses Helena

Princess Helena of the United Kingdom

Princess Helena was a member of the British Royal Family, the third daughter and fifth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert....

, Alice

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom

and Victoria

Victoria, Princess Royal

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|The Princess Victoria

Victoria, Princess Royal

,
Princess Royal

Princess Royal

Princess Royal is a style customarily awarded by a British monarch to his or her eldest daughter. The style is held for life, so a princess cannot be given the style during the lifetime of another Princess Royal...

||align=center| 21 November
1840||align=center| 5 August
1901 ||bgcolor=f0fcff|Married 1858 (January 25),
Prussian Crown Prince Frederick (1831–1888),
later Frederick III, German Emperor and King of Prussia

Frederick III, German Emperor

Frederick III was German Emperor and King of Prussia for 99 days in 1888, the Year of the Three Emperors. Friedrich Wilhelm Nikolaus Karl known informally as Fritz, was the only son of Emperor William I and was raised in his family's tradition of military service...

4 sons, 4 daughters
(including German Emperor William II
and Sophia

Sophia of Prussia

Princess Sophie of Prussia was Queen of the Hellenes as the wife of King Constantine I.-Princess of Prussia:...

, Queen of the Hellenes)
|-bgcolor=f0fcff
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|The Prince Albert Edward,
Prince of Wales

Prince of Wales

Prince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...

,
later King Edward VII

Edward VII of the United Kingdom

Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910...

||align=center|9 November
1841||align=center bgcolor=f0fcff|6 May
1910 ||bgcolor=fff8f8|Married 1863 (March 10),
Princess Alexandra of Denmark
Alexandra of Denmark
Alexandra of Denmark was the wife of Edward VII of the United Kingdom...

(1844–1925);
3 sons, 3 daughters
(including King George V

George V of the United Kingdom

George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....

and Maud

Maud of Wales

Princess Maud of Wales was Queen of Norway as spouse of King Haakon VII. She was a member of the British Royal Family as the youngest daughter of Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark and granddaughter of Queen Victoria and also of Christian IX of Denmark. She was the younger sister of George V...

, Queen of Norway)
|-bgcolor=fff8f8
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|The Princess Alice

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom

||align=center| 25 April
1843||align=center|14 December
1878 ||bgcolor=f0fcff|Married 1862 (July 1),
Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
Louis IV , was the fourth Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, reigning from 13 June 1877 until his death...

and by Rhine (1837–1892);
2 sons, 5 daughters
(including Alexandra, the last Empress of All the Russias)
|-bgcolor=f0fcff
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|The Prince Alfred

Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

,
Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
and Duke of Edinburgh

Duke of Edinburgh

The Duke of Edinburgh is a British royal title, named after the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, which has been conferred upon members of the British royal family only four times times since its creation in 1726...

;
Admiral of the Fleet||align=center|6 August
1844||align=center|31 July
1900 ||bgcolor=fff8f8|Married 1874 (January 23),
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853–1920);
2 sons (1 still-born

Stillbirth

), 4 daughters
(including Marie

Marie of Edinburgh

Marie of Romania was Queen consort of Romania from 1914 to 1927, as the wife of Ferdinand I of Romania.-Early life:...

, Queen of Romania)
|-bgcolor=fff8f8
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|The Princess Helena

Princess Helena of the United Kingdom

Princess Helena was a member of the British Royal Family, the third daughter and fifth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert....

||align=center|25 May
1846 ||align=center|9 June
1923 ||bgcolor=f0fcff|Married 1866 (July 5),
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein was a minor German prince who became a member of the British Royal Family through his marriage to Princess Helena of the United Kingdom , the fifth child and third daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of...

-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1831–1917);
4 sons (1 still-born

Stillbirth

), 2 daughters
|-bgcolor=fff8f8
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|The Princess Louise

Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll

The Princess Louise was a member of the British Royal Family, the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and her husband, Albert, Prince Consort.Louise's early life was spent moving between the various royal residences in the...

||align=center|18 March
1848 || align=center|3 December
1939 ||bgcolor=f0fcff|Married 1871 (March 21),
John Douglas Sutherland Campbell
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll
John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll KG, KT, GCMG, GCVO, VD, PC , usually better known by the courtesy title Marquess of Lorne, by which he was known between 1847 and 1900, was a British nobleman and was the fourth Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883...

(1845–1914),
Marquess of Lorne, later 9th Duke of Argyll

Duke of Argyll

Duke of Argyll is a title, created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1701 and in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1892. The Earls, Marquesses, and Dukes of Argyll were for several centuries among the most powerful, if not the most powerful, noble family in Scotland...

and Governor-General of Canada (1878–1883);
no issue
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|The Prince Arthur

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn was a member of the shared British and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha royal family who served as the Governor General of Canada, the 10th since Canadian Confederation.Born the seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and...

,
Duke of Connaught and Strathearn

Duke of Connaught and Strathearn

The title Duke of Connaught and Strathearn was granted by Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to her third son, Prince Arthur....

;
Field Marshal,
Governor General of Canada

Governor General of Canada

The Governor General of Canada is the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II...

(1911–1916)||align=center|1 May
1850 ||align=center|16 January
1942 ||bgcolor=fff8f8|Married 1879 (March 13),
Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia (1860–1917);
1 son, 2 daughters
(including Margaret

Princess Margaret of Connaught

Princess Margaret of Connaught was the daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, third son of Queen Victoria, and his wife, Princess Luise Margarete of Prussia...

, Crown Princess of Sweden)
|-bgcolor=f0fcff
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|The Prince Leopold

Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany

,
Duke of Albany

Duke of Albany

Duke of Albany is a peerage title that has occasionally been bestowed on the younger sons in the Scottish, and later the British, royal family, particularly in the Houses of Stuart and Hanover....

||align=center|7 April
1853||align=center|28 March
1884||bgcolor=fff8f8|Married 1882 (April 27),
Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1861–1922);
1 son, 1 daughter
|-bgcolor=fff8f8
|align=center|

|The Princess Beatrice

Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom

The Princess Beatrice was a member of the British Royal Family. She was the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Juan Carlos, King of Spain, is her great-grandson...

||align=center|14 April
1857||align=center| 26 October
1944 ||bgcolor=f0fcff|Married 1885 (July 23),
Prince Henry of Battenberg
Prince Henry of Battenberg
Colonel Prince Henry of Battenberg was a morganatic descendant of the Grand Ducal House of Hesse, later becoming a member of the British Royal Family, through his marriage to Princess Beatrice.-Early life:...

(1858–1896);
3 sons, 1 daughter
(Victoria Eugenie, Queen of Spain)
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Victoria, the Princess Royal

The eldest child of Victoria and Albert, Princess Victoria (the Princess Royal)

Victoria, Princess Royal

, called "Vicky" was born on 21 November 1840 and died on 5 August 1901, seven months after her mother's death in January. She married then-Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia

Frederick III, German Emperor

(1831–1888, German Emperor March–June 1888) on 25 January 1858. They had eight children and twenty-three grandchildren.

Not only was the Princess Royal the first child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, she also gave them their first grandchild (the future Emperor Wilhelm II, 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) and was grandmother to both the first of their 85 great-grandchildren to be born, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen

Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen

Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen was born at Potsdam, was the only child of Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen and his wife Charlotte of Prussia...

(19 May 1879 – 26 August 1945), daughter of Princess Charlotte

Princess Charlotte of Prussia

Princess Charlotte of Prussia , Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen was the second child born to Prince Friedrich of Prussia and Princess Victoria...

, and to the last of their 29 great-granddaughters to die, Lady Katherine Brandram

Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark

(4 May 1913 – 2 October 2007), daughter of Princess Sophie.

Both the German Emperor Wilhelm II and the British King-Emperor George V

George V

George V was king of the United Kingdom and its dominions from 1910 to 1936.George V or similar terms may also refer to:-People:* George V of Georgia * George V of Imereti * George V of Hanover...

(son of the Princess Royal's younger brother Edward VII) were grandchildren of Queen Victoria, as was Alexandra, daughter of Princess Alice

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom

and wife of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II.

Queen Victoria → Princess Victoria → German Emperor William II

Queen Victoria → King Edward VII → King George V

Queen Victoria → Princess Alice

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom

→ Empress Alexandra

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|Princess Victoria

Victoria, Princess Royal

,
the Princess Royal

Princess Royal

||align=center| 21 November
1840
Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace, in London, is the principal residence and office of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal hospitality...

,
Westminster

Westminster

Westminster is an area of central London, within the City of Westminster, England. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, southwest of the City of London and southwest of Charing Cross...

(London)||align=center|5 August
1901
Friedrichshof, Potsdam

Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....

, Prussia

Prussia

Prussia was a German kingdom and historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, successfully expanding its size by way of an unusually well-organized and effective army. Prussia shaped the history...

, (Germany) ||bgcolor=fefefe rowspan="2" valign="middle"|Married 25 January 1858
in St James' Palace, Westminster

Westminster

Westminster is an area of central London, within the City of Westminster, England. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, southwest of the City of London and southwest of Charing Cross...

(London).

4 sons, 4 daughters
(including German Emperor William II
and Sophia of Prussia

Sophia of Prussia

Princess Sophie of Prussia was Queen of the Hellenes as the wife of King Constantine I.-Princess of Prussia:...

, Queen of the Greeks);

18 grandsons, 5 granddaughters
(including Kings George II

George II of Greece

George II reigned as King of Greece from 1922 to 1924 and from 1935 to 1947.-Early life, first period of kingship and exile:George was born at the royal villa at Tatoi, near Athens, the eldest son of King Constantine I of Greece and his wife, Princess Sophia of Prussia...

, Alexander I

Alexander of Greece

Alexander reigned as King of Greece from 1917 to 1920 until his unusual death as the result of sepsis contracted by being bitten by two monkeys.-Early life:...

and Paul I of Greece and
Queen Helen of Romania)

¶ Crown Prince Frederick succeeded his father Emperor Wilhelm I on 9 March 1888, but died in June.
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|Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia

Frederick III, German Emperor

,
later Frederick III,
German Emperor and King of Prussia
|align=center| 18 October
1831
Potsdam

Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....

, Prussia

Prussia

|align=center| 15 June
1888
Potsdam

Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....

, Prussia

Prussia

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Children of the Princess Royal and Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia

The portrait below shows the Princess Royal with her husband Frederick and with Victoria and Albert's first two grandchildren, the future Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859–1941) and Princess Charlotte

Princess Charlotte of Prussia

Princess Charlotte of Prussia , Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen was the second child born to Prince Friedrich of Prussia and Princess Victoria...

(1860–1919), who were the only grandchildren born during Albert's lifetime.

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! bgcolor=ccccff|Portrait of Crown Princess Victoria's family in 1862 by Franz Xaver Winterhalter
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The Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia and their daughter and son.
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| rowspan="3"|Crown Prince Wilhelm, later Wilhelm II,
German Emperor and King of Prussia
| align=center rowspan="3"|
Berlin,
Prussia

Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918. Until the defeat of Germany in World War I, it comprised almost two-thirds of the area of the German Empire...

| align=center rowspan="3"|
Doorn

Doorn

Doorn is a town in the municipality of Utrechtse Heuvelrug in the central Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht. On 1 January 2008 the town had 10,052 inhabitants.-History:...

,
Netherlands
| Reigned from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918 (abdicated)
|-bgcolor=f0fcff
| Married (1) 1881, Princess Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein
Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein
Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein was the last German Empress and Queen of Prussia. Her full German name was Auguste Victoria Friederike Luise Feodora Jenny von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.She was the eldest daughter of Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein and Princess...

-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1858–1921)
with issue (6 sons, 1 daughter):
Crown Prince William (1882–1951),
Prince Eitel Friedrich

Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia

Prince Eitel Friedrich was the second son of Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany by his first wife, Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein...

(1883–1942),
Prince Adalbert

Prince Adalbert of Prussia

Prince Adalbert of Prussia was a son of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany by his first wife, Princess Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein.-Marriage:He married Princess Adelheid "Adi" of Saxe-Meiningen on 3 August 1914 in...

(1884–1948),
Prince August Wilhelm

Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia

Prince August Wilhelm Heinrich Günther Viktor of Prussia , called "Auwi", was the fourth son of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany by his first wife, Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein....

(1887–1949),
Prince Oskar

Prince Oskar of Prussia

Prince Oskar of Prussia was the fifth son of Wilhelm II, German Emperor and Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein.-Education:...

(1888–1958),
Prince Joachim

Prince Joachim of Prussia

Prince Joachim Franz Humbert of Prussia was the youngest son of Wilhelm II, German Emperor, by his first wife, Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein.-Candidate for thrones:...

(1890–1920) and
Princess Viktoria Luise

Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia

Victoria Louise of Prussia was the only daughter and the seventh child of William II, German Emperor and Empress Augusta Victoria. She was their last surviving child. Princess Victoria Louise is the maternal grandmother of Queen Sophie of Spain and the former King Constantine II of the Hellenes...

(1892–1980)
|-bgcolor=f0fcff
| Married (2) 1922 Princess Hermine Reuss
Hermine Reuss
Princess Hermine Reuss of Greiz was the second wife of Wilhelm II, German Emperor , and as such used the titles of German Empress and Queen of Prussia.-Early life:...

(1887–1947), no issue.
|-bgcolor=fff8f8 valign="top"
|align=center| ||Princess Charlotte of Prussia
Princess Charlotte of Prussia
Princess Charlotte of Prussia , Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen was the second child born to Prince Friedrich of Prussia and Princess Victoria...

||align=center|
Potsdam

Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....

, Prussia

Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918. Until the defeat of Germany in World War I, it comprised almost two-thirds of the area of the German Empire...

||align=center|
Baden-Baden

Baden-Baden

Baden-Baden is a spa town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located on the western foothills of the Black Forest, on the banks of the Oos River, in the region of Karlsruhe...

, German Republic

Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic is the name given by historians to the parliamentary republic established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government...

||Married 1878 Bernhard of Saxe-Meiningen, (1851–1928),
later Duke Bernhard III (1914–1918), with issue (1 daughter):
Princess Feodora

Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen

Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen was born at Potsdam, was the only child of Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen and his wife Charlotte of Prussia...

(19 May 1879 - 26 August 1945),
— Queen Victoria's first great-grandchild.

¶ Modern medical tests revealed that both Charlotte and her daughter suffered from porphyria
Porphyria
Porphyrias are a group of inherited or acquired disorders of certain enzymes in the heme bio-synthetic pathway . They are broadly classified as acute porphyrias and cutaneous porphyrias, based on the site of the overproduction and accumulation of the porphyrins...

, which afflicted their ancestor George III
George III of the United Kingdom
George III was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of these two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death...

.
|-bgcolor=f0fcff valign="top"
|align=center| ||Prince Heinrich of Prussia
Prince Heinrich of Prussia
Prince Henry of Prussia was a younger brother of German Emperor William II and a Prince of Prussia...

||align=center|
Potsdam

Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....

, Prussia

Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918. Until the defeat of Germany in World War I, it comprised almost two-thirds of the area of the German Empire...

||align=center|
Hemmelmark, German Republic

Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic is the name given by historians to the parliamentary republic established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government...

| bgcolor=e8fffc|Married 1888 Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine
Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine
Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine was the third child and third daughter of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine. Her maternal grandparents were Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert...

(1866–1953), daughter of his aunt Princess Alice

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom

(see below)
and had issue (3 sons):
Prince Waldemar

Prince Waldemar of Prussia (1889-1945)

Prince Waldemar of Prussia was the eldest son of Prince Heinrich of Prussia and his wife, Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine.-Biography:-Marriage:...

(1889–1945),
Prince Sigismund

Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1896-1978)

Prince Sigismund of Prussia , was the second son of Prince Heinrich of Prussia and his wife, Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine...

(1896–1978) and
Prince Heinrich

Prince Heinrich of Prussia

Prince Henry of Prussia was a younger brother of German Emperor William II and a Prince of Prussia...

(1900–1904).
|-bgcolor=f0fcff valign="top"
|align=center| ||Prince Sigismund of Prussia||align=center|
Potsdam

Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....

, Prussia

Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918. Until the defeat of Germany in World War I, it comprised almost two-thirds of the area of the German Empire...

||align=center|
Potsdam

Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....

, Prussia

Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918. Until the defeat of Germany in World War I, it comprised almost two-thirds of the area of the German Empire...

||Died young from meningitis

Meningitis

Meningitis is inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, known collectively as the meninges. The inflammation may be caused by infection with viruses, bacteria, or other microorganisms, and less commonly by certain drugs...

.
|-bgcolor=fff8f8 valign="top"
| rowspan="2" align=center |
| rowspan="2" | Princess Viktoria of Prussia
Princess Viktoria of Prussia
Princess Viktoria of Prussia was the second daughter of Frederick III, German Emperor and his wife Victoria, Princess Royal, a daughter of Queen Victoria...

| rowspan="2" align=center |
Potsdam

Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....

, Prussia

Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918. Until the defeat of Germany in World War I, it comprised almost two-thirds of the area of the German Empire...

| rowspan="2" align=center |
Bonn

Bonn

Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....

,
German Republic

Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic is the name given by historians to the parliamentary republic established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government...

| valign="bottom"|Married (1) 1890 Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe
Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe
Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe was the regent of the Principality of Lippe from 1895 till 1897.-Early life:He was born in Bückeburg the seventh child of Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe and Princess Hermine of Waldeck-Pyrmont .Following the death of Prince Woldemar on the 20 March 1895 and...

(1859–1917),
no issue
|-bgcolor=fff8f8 valign="top"
| Married (2) 1927 Alexander Zoubkoff, no issue.
|-bgcolor=f0fcff valign="top"
| align=center| ||Prince Waldemar of Prussia||align=center|
Berlin,
Prussia

Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918. Until the defeat of Germany in World War I, it comprised almost two-thirds of the area of the German Empire...

||align=center|
Potsdam

Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....

, Prussia

Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918. Until the defeat of Germany in World War I, it comprised almost two-thirds of the area of the German Empire...

||Died young from diphtheria

Diphtheria

Diphtheria is an upper respiratory tract illness caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae, a facultative anaerobic, Gram-positive bacterium. It is characterized by sore throat, low fever, and an adherent membrane on the tonsils, pharynx, and/or nasal cavity...

.
|-bgcolor=fff8f8 valign="top"
|align=center| ||Princess Sophie of Prussia
Sophia of Prussia
Princess Sophie of Prussia was Queen of the Hellenes as the wife of King Constantine I.-Princess of Prussia:...

,
later Queen of the Hellenes [Greeks]||align=center|
Berlin,
Prussia

Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918. Until the defeat of Germany in World War I, it comprised almost two-thirds of the area of the German Empire...

||align=center|
Frankfurt-
am-Main, German Republic||Married 1889 King Constantine I of Greece
Constantine I of Greece
Constantine I was King of Greece from 1913 to 1917 and from 1920 to 1922. He was commander-in-chief of the Hellenic Army during the unsuccessful Greco-Turkish War of 1897 and led the Greek forces during the successful Balkan Wars of 1912–1913, in which Greece won Thessaloniki and doubled in...

(1868–1923)
and had issue (3 sons, 3 daughters):
Crown Prince George

George II of Greece

(1890–1947), later King George II,
Prince Alexander (1893–1920), later King Alexander I and
   father of Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark,
   later Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia
Princess Helen (1896–1982), later Queen of Romania and
   mother of King Michael of Romania,
Prince Paul

Paul of Greece

Paul reigned as King of Greece from 1947 to 1964.-Family and early life:Paul was born in Athens, the third son of King Constantine I of Greece and his wife, Princess Sophia of Prussia. He was trained as a naval officer....

(1901–1964), later King Paul I and father of
King Constantine II of Greece

Constantine II of Greece

|align=right|Constantine II was King of Greece from 1964 until the abolition of the monarchy in 1973, the sixth and last monarch of the Greek Royal Family....

and Queen Sofía of Spain

Queen Sofía of Spain

Queen Sofía of Spain is the wife of King Juan Carlos I of Spain.-Early life and family:Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark was born in Psychiko, Athens, Greece on 2 November 1938, the eldest child of the King Paul of Greece and his wife, Queen Frederika , a former princess of Hanover...

Princess Irene

Irene of Greece, Duchess of Aosta

Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark was the fifth child and second daughter of Constantine I of Greece and his wife, the former Princess Sophie of Prussia.-Family and early life:...

(1904–1974), and
Princess Katherine

Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark

(Lady Katherine Brandram) (1913–2007).
|-bgcolor=fff8f8 valign="top"
|align=center| ||Princess Margaret of Prussia
Princess Margaret of Prussia
Princess Margaret of Prussia was a daughter of Frederick III, German Emperor and Victoria, Princess Royal. She married Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse. In 1926 they became Landgrave and Landgravine of Hesse...

||align=center|
Potsdam

Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....

, Prussia

Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918. Until the defeat of Germany in World War I, it comprised almost two-thirds of the area of the German Empire...

||align=center|
Kronberg, West Germany

West Germany

West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

|Married 1893 Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse
Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse
Frederick Charles Louis Constantine, Prince and Landgrave of Hesse , Friedrich Karl Ludwig Konstantin Prinz und Landgraf von Hessen-Kassel in German, was the brother-in-law of the German Emperor William II and the elected King of Finland from 9 October to 14 December 1918.-Early life:Frederick was...

(1868–1940),
later elected King of Finland (October–December 1918),
and had issue (6 sons):
Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (1893–1916),
Prince Maximilian (1894–1914),
Prince Philipp (1896–1980)
and Prince Wolfgang

Prince Wolfgang of Hesse

Prince and Landgrave Wolfgang of Hesse-Kassel , was the designated Hereditary Prince of the monarchy of Finland , and as such, already called the Crown Prince of Finland officially until 14 December 1918, and also afterwards...

(1896–1989) (twins),
Prince Christoph (1901–1943)
and Prince Richard (1901–1969) (twins).
|}

Edward VII

Prince Albert Edward (1841–1910), then the Prince of Wales, married
Princess Princess Alexandra of Denmark
Alexandra of Denmark
Alexandra of Denmark was the wife of Edward VII of the United Kingdom...

(1844–1925), later Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, on 10 March 1863. They had 3 sons (one of whom died within a day), 3 daughters, 7 grandsons (one stillborn

Stillbirth

) and 3 granddaughters. The Prince of Wales became King Edward VII and Emperor of India

Emperor of India

Emperor/Empress of India was used as a title by the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah II, and revived by the colonial British monarchs during the British Raj in India....

at the death of his mother Queen Victoria on 22 January 1901.

Edward's and Alexandra's son King George V
George V
George V was king of the United Kingdom and its dominions from 1910 to 1936.George V or similar terms may also refer to:-People:* George V of Georgia * George V of Imereti * George V of Hanover...

(reigned 1910–1936) was the father of Kings Edward VIII (reigned 1936) and George VI (1936–1952), and the grandfather of the present Queen Elizabeth II (acceded to the throne February 1952) and her sister Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon was the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II and the younger daughter of King George VI....

(1930–2002). As the only children of George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was the queen consort of King George VI from 1936 until her husband's death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II...

(the Queen Mother, 1900–2002), Elizabeth and Margaret were thus great-granddaughters of Edward VII, great-great-granddaughters of Queen Victoria, and great-great-great-great-granddaughters of Victoria's grandfather, King George III.

Queen Victoria → King Edward VII → King George V → King George VI → Queen Elizabeth II.

Edward's and Alexandra's daughter Princess Maud of Wales
Maud of Wales
Princess Maud of Wales was Queen of Norway as spouse of King Haakon VII. She was a member of the British Royal Family as the youngest daughter of Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark and granddaughter of Queen Victoria and also of Christian IX of Denmark. She was the younger sister of George V...

became Queen of Norway when her husband, Prince Christian of Denmark, became King Haakon VII

Haakon VII

Haakon VII may refer to:People* Haakon VII of Norway , King of Norway Ships* HNoMS King Haakon VII, a Royal Norwegian Navy escort ship in commission from 1942 to 1951...

(1905–1957) upon the dissolution of Norway's union with Sweden in 1905. Their son, and Edward's grandson, became King Olav V (1957–1991); and Olav's children, King Harald V (since 1991), Princess Ragnhild

Princess Ragnhild of Norway

Princess Ragnhild of Norway, Mrs. Lorentzen, is the eldest daughter of King Olav V of Norway and Princess Märtha of Sweden. She is the older sister of His Majesty King Harald V of Norway and of Princess Astrid of Norway.Princess Ragnhild married Erling S...

and Princess Astrid

Princess Astrid of Norway

Princess Astrid of Norway, Mrs. Ferner, is the second daughter of King Olav V of Norway and his wife, Princess Märtha of Sweden...

, are thus great-grandchildren of Edward VII and great-great-grandchildren of Victoria and Albert.

Queen Victoria → King Edward VII → Princess Maud of Wales → King Olav V → King Harald V

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|-bgcolor=lavender align=center
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|align=center|
|Prince Albert Edward,
Prince of Wales
Prince of Wales
Prince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...

,
later King Edward VII

Edward VII of the United Kingdom

Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910...

and Emperor of India

Emperor of India

Emperor/Empress of India was used as a title by the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah II, and revived by the colonial British monarchs during the British Raj in India....

||align=center|9 November
1841
Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace, in London, is the principal residence and office of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal hospitality...

, Westminster

Westminster

Westminster is an area of central London, within the City of Westminster, England. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, southwest of the City of London and southwest of Charing Cross...

(London)||align=center|6 May
1910
Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace, in London, is the principal residence and office of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal hospitality...

, Westminster

Westminster

Westminster is an area of central London, within the City of Westminster, England. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, southwest of the City of London and southwest of Charing Cross...

(London)
|valign="middle" bgcolor=fefefe rowspan="2"|Married 10 March 1863
in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

St George's Chapel is the place of worship at Windsor Castle in England, United Kingdom. It is both a royal peculiar and the chapel of the Order of the Garter...

.

3 sons, 3 daughters
(including King George V

George V of the United Kingdom

George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....

and Maud of Wales

Maud of Wales

, Queen of Norway);
7 grandsons, 3 granddaughters
(including British Kings Edward VIII & George VI,
and Norwegian King Olav V)

¶ Edward acceded to the throne when his mother Queen Victoria died on 22 January 1901.
He and Princess Alexandra were crowned King and Queen on 2 August 1902 in Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey

The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, popularly known as Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic church, in the City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom, located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English,...

(London) by Frederick Temple

Frederick Temple

Frederick Temple was an English academic, teacher, churchman and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1896 until his death.-Early life:...

, the Archbishop of Canterbury

Archbishop of Canterbury

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|align=center|

| Princess Alexandra
of Denmark
Alexandra of Denmark
Alexandra of Denmark was the wife of Edward VII of the United Kingdom...

later Queen Alexandra
of the United Kingdom
and Empress of India
|align=center| 1 December
1844
Yellow Palace, near
Amalienborg Palace

Amalienborg Palace

Amalienborg Palace is the winter home of the Danish royal family, and is located in Copenhagen, Denmark. It consists of four identical classicizing palace façades with rococo interiors around an octagonal courtyard ; in the centre of the square is a monumental equestrian statue of Amalienborg's...

,
Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

,
Denmark
|align=center| 20 November
1925
Sandringham House

Sandringham House

Sandringham House is a country house on of land near the village of Sandringham in Norfolk, England. The house is privately owned by the British Royal Family and is located on the royal Sandringham Estate, which lies within the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.-History and current...

,
Norfolk

Norfolk

Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...

, England
|}

Children of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra

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|align=center|

||Prince Albert Victor,
Duke of Clarence||align=center|
Frogmore House

Frogmore House

Frogmore House is a 17th-century country house standing at the centre of the Frogmore Estate, amongst beautiful gardens, about a half a mile south of Windsor Castle in the Home Park at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire. It is a Grade I listed building.-Early tenants:The original house on...

,
Windsor, Berkshire

Windsor, Berkshire

Windsor is an affluent suburban town and unparished area in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England. It is widely known as the site of Windsor Castle, one of the official residences of the British Royal Family....

||align=center|
Sandringham House

Sandringham House

,
Norfolk

Norfolk

||Created Duke of Clarence and Avondale in 1890;
died of influenza

Influenza

Influenza, commonly referred to as the flu, is an infectious disease caused by RNA viruses of the family Orthomyxoviridae , that affects birds and mammals...

just after his 28th birthday
|-bgcolor=f0fcff valign="top"
|align=center|

||Prince George,
Prince of Wales
Prince of Wales
Prince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...

,
later King George V
George V of the United Kingdom
George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....

||align=center|
Marlborough House
Marlborough House
Marlborough House is a mansion in Westminster, London, in Pall Mall just east of St James's Palace. It was built for Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, the favourite and confidante of Queen Anne. The Duchess wanted her new house to be "strong, plain and convenient and good"...

,
London||align=center|
Sandringham House
Sandringham House
Sandringham House is a country house on of land near the village of Sandringham in Norfolk, England. The house is privately owned by the British Royal Family and is located on the royal Sandringham Estate, which lies within the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.-History and current...

,
Norfolk
Norfolk
Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...

||Reigned from 6 May 1910 to 20 January 1936;
married 1893 (July 6) Princess Mary of Teck

Mary of Teck

Mary of Teck was the queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, as the wife of King-Emperor George V....

,
(26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953), later Queen Mary,
and had issue (5 sons, 1 daughter):
Edward, Prince of Wales (23 June 1894 – 24 April 1972)
— later King Edward VIII

Edward VIII of the United Kingdom

Edward VIII was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth, and Emperor of India, from 20 January to 11 December 1936.Before his accession to the throne, Edward was Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay...

(20 January – 11 December 1936),
Prince Albert, Duke of York (14 December 1895 – 6 Feb. 1952)
— later King George VI

George VI of the United Kingdom

George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death...

(11 Dec. 1936 – 6 February 1952) and
father of Queen Elizabeth II (born 21 April 1926; acceded 1952),
Mary, Princess Royal

Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood

The Princess Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood was a member of the British Royal Family; she was the third child and only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. She was the sixth holder of the title of Princess Royal...

(25 April 1897 – 28 March 1965),
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester

Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester

The Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester was a soldier and member of the British Royal Family, the third son of George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary....

(31 March 1900 – 10 June 1974),
Prince George, Duke of Kent

Prince George, Duke of Kent

Prince George, Duke of Kent was a member of the British Royal Family, the fourth son of George V and Mary of Teck, and younger brother of Edward VIII and George VI...

(20 Dec. 1902 – 25 August 1942, killed on active duty) and
Prince John

Prince John of the United Kingdom

The Prince John was a member of the British Royal Family, the youngest son of King George V and Queen Mary. The Prince had epilepsy and consequently was largely hidden from the public eye.-Early life:...

(12 July 1905 – 19 January 1919).
|-bgcolor=fff8f8 valign="top"
|align=center|

||Princess Louise,
The Princess Royal
Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife
The Princess Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife was the third child and the eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark...

||align=center|
Marlborough House
Marlborough House
Marlborough House is a mansion in Westminster, London, in Pall Mall just east of St James's Palace. It was built for Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, the favourite and confidante of Queen Anne. The Duchess wanted her new house to be "strong, plain and convenient and good"...

,
London||align=center|
Portman Square
Portman Square
Portman Square is a square in London, part of the Portman Estate. It is located at the western end of Wigmore Street, which connects it to Cavendish Square to its east. It is served by London bus route 274...

,
London||Married 1889 Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife

Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife

Alexander William George Duff, 1st Duke of Fife KG, KT, GCVO, PC, VD , styled Viscount Macduff between 1857 and 1879 and known as The Earl Fife between 1879 and 1889, was a British Peer who married Princess Louise of Wales, the third child and eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Alexandra of...

(1849–1912)
and had issue (1 son, 2 daughters):
Alastair Duff, Earl of Macduff (stillborn
Stillbirth
A stillbirth occurs when a fetus has died in the uterus. The Australian definition specifies that fetal death is termed a stillbirth after 20 weeks gestation or the fetus weighs more than . Once the fetus has died the mother still has contractions and remains undelivered. The term is often used in...

, 1890),
Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife
Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife
Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife was a member of the British Royal Family, a granddaughter of King Edward VII...

(1891–1959) and
Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk (1893–1945).
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Marlborough House
Marlborough House
Marlborough House is a mansion in Westminster, London, in Pall Mall just east of St James's Palace. It was built for Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, the favourite and confidante of Queen Anne. The Duchess wanted her new house to be "strong, plain and convenient and good"...

,
London||align=center|
Coppins
Coppins
Coppins is a country house north of the village of Iver in Buckinghamshire, England, formerly a home of members of the British Royal Family, including Princess Victoria, Prince George, 1st Duke of Kent, Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent and Prince Edward, 2nd Duke of Kent .-History:The house was...

, Buckingham- shire
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....

||Died unmarried.
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|align=center| ||Princess Maud of Wales

Maud of Wales

later Queen of Norway||align=center|
Marlborough House
Marlborough House
Marlborough House is a mansion in Westminster, London, in Pall Mall just east of St James's Palace. It was built for Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, the favourite and confidante of Queen Anne. The Duchess wanted her new house to be "strong, plain and convenient and good"...

,
London ||align=center|
London||Married 1896 Prince Carl of Denmark (1872–1957),
— later King Haakon VII of Norway
Haakon VII of Norway
Haakon VII , known as Prince Carl of Denmark until 1905, was the first king of Norway after the 1905 dissolution of the personal union with Sweden. He was a member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg...

(1905–1957)
and had issue (1 son):
Prince Alexander (1903–1991),
— later Crown Prince and King Olav V of Norway
Olav V of Norway
Olav V was the king of Norway from 1957 until his death. A member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Olav was born in the United Kingdom as the son of King Haakon VII of Norway and Queen Maud of Norway...

(1957–1991).
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|align=center| ||Prince Alexander John of Wales

Prince Alexander John of Wales

||align=center|
Marlborough House

Marlborough House

Marlborough House is a mansion in Westminster, London, in Pall Mall just east of St James's Palace. It was built for Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, the favourite and confidante of Queen Anne. The Duchess wanted her new house to be "strong, plain and convenient and good"...

,
London||align=center|
Marlborough House

Marlborough House

,
London||Died less than 24 hours after his birth.
|}

Princess Alice

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (1843-1878) married Prince Ludwig of Hesse (1837-1892), later Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse, on July 1st, 1862. They had 2 sons (one of which, "Frittie", Prince Friedrich of Hesse, was a hemophiliac and died from bleeding out after a fall out of his mother's bedroom window), 5 daughters (one of whom died of diphtheria) and 15 grandchildren (two of whom passed away at a young age). Prince Ludwig succeeded to the Grand Duchy of Hesse as Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse, and Princess Alice as the Grand Duchess of Hesse, on July 13th 1877.

Alice and Louis's daughter, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, married Prince Louis of Battenberg, and was the mother of Princess Alice of Battenberg

Princess Alice of Battenberg

Princess Alice of Battenberg, later Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and mother-in-law of Elizabeth II....

(1885-1969), who became Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark when she married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark

Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark

Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was the seventh child and fourth son of King George I of Greece and Olga Constantinovna of Russia. He was a grandson of Christian IX of Denmark.He began military training at an early age, and was...

on October 6th, 1903. Princess Alice was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is the husband of Elizabeth II. He is the United Kingdom's longest-serving consort and the oldest serving spouse of a reigning British monarch....

the current prince consort of the United Kingdom as the husband of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Princess Victoria was also the mother of Queen Louise of Sweden

Louise Mountbatten

Louise Alexandra Marie Irene Mountbatten became Queen consort of Sweden in 1950 and served as such until her death in 1965...

.

Queen Victoria → Princess Alice → Princess Victoria of Hesse → Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark → Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Alice and Louis's second daughter, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia in 1981 and in 1992 by the Moscow Patriarchate.

Prince Ernest Louis became Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse

Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse

Ernest Louis Charles Albert William , was the last Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine from 1892 until 1918...

upon his fathers death in 1892. He married his first cousin, Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and had one daughter, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse who died of typhoid fever, age 8. The couple were divorced the 21st of December, 1901. The Grand Duke married for a second time to Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich

Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich

Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich , was the second wife of Ernst-Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and the mother of his two sons.-Family:...

(1871-1947), and had two sons: Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse

Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse

Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse was the first child of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich....

who married Princess Cecilie of Greece, a sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is the husband of Elizabeth II. He is the United Kingdom's longest-serving consort and the oldest serving spouse of a reigning British monarch....

and had issue, and Prince Louis of Hesse and by Rhine

Prince Louis of Hesse and by Rhine

Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine was the youngest son of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse by his second wife Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich....

.

Princess Alix of Hesse, the last surviving child of the Grand Ducal pair became the Last Empress of All the Russias through her marriage to Nicholas II of Russia

Nicholas II of Russia

Nicholas II was the last Emperor of Russia, Grand Prince of Finland, and titular King of Poland. His official short title was Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias and he is known as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church.Nicholas II ruled from 1894 until...

. They had 5 children, 4 girls and one boy, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, who was a hemophiliac. The Russian Imperial Family was executed on July 17th, 1918 by a detachment of Bolsheviks in the basement of Ipatiev House

Ipatiev House

Ipatiev House was a merchant's house in Yekaterinburg where the former Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, his family and members of his household were executed following the Bolshevik Revolution...

. The entire family was canonized by the Russian Orthodox church in 2000.

Queen Victoria → Princess Alice → Princess Alix, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia
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|Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
The Princess Alice was a member of the British royal family, the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.Alice's education was devised by Albert's close friend and adviser, Baron Stockmar...

||align=center| 25 April
1843
Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace, in London, is the principal residence and office of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal hospitality...

,
London,
England||align=center|14 December
1878
New Palace,
Darmstadt

Darmstadt

Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine Main Area.The sandy soils in the Darmstadt area, ill-suited for agriculture in times before industrial fertilisation, prevented any larger settlement from developing, until the city became the seat...

,
Hesse

Hesse

Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...

(Germany)
|valign="middle" bgcolor=fefefe rowspan="2"| Married privately on 1 July 1862
(six months after the death of Alice's father Prince Albert),
in the dining room of Osborne House

Osborne House

Osborne House is a former royal residence in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK. The house was built between 1845 and 1851 for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as a summer home and rural retreat....

,
East Cowes

East Cowes

East Cowes is a town and civil parish to the north of the Isle of Wight, on the east bank of the River Medina next to its neighbour on the west bank, Cowes....

(Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest island of England, located in the English Channel, on average about 2–4 miles off the south coast of the county of Hampshire, separated from the mainland by a strait called the Solent...

), England

2 sons, 5 daughters
(including Alexandra, the last Empress of Russia);

9 grandsons (1 stillborn), 7 granddaughters
(including Queen Louise

Louise Mountbatten

Louise Alexandra Marie Irene Mountbatten became Queen consort of Sweden in 1950 and served as such until her death in 1965...

of Sweden and
Earl Mountbatten of Burma

Earl Mountbatten of Burma

The title Earl Mountbatten of Burma was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1947 for Rear Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, the last Viceroy of India....

, the last Viceroy of India)

¶ Prince Louis became Grand Duke of Hesse on 13 June 1877, less than two years before Princess Alice's death.
|-valign="top" bgcolor=f0fcff
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| Prince Louis of Hesse, later Louis IV,
Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine

Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse

Louis IV , was the fourth Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, reigning from 13 June 1877 until his death...

|align=center| 12 September
1837
Darmstadt

Darmstadt

,
Hesse

Hesse

|align=center| 13 March
1892
|}

Children of Princess Alice and Louis IV of Hesse

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| The Grand Ducal Family of Hesse and by Rhine in 1876
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|align=center| || Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, later Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven was the eldest daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and his first wife Princess Alice of the United Kingdom .Her mother died while her brother and sisters...

||align=center|
Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle is a medieval castle and royal residence in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, notable for its long association with the British royal family and its architecture. The original castle was built after the Norman invasion by William the Conqueror. Since the time of Henry I it...

, Berkshire

Berkshire

Berkshire is a historic county in the South of England. It is also often referred to as the Royal County of Berkshire because of the presence of the royal residence of Windsor Castle in the county; this usage, which dates to the 19th century at least, was recognised by the Queen in 1957, and...

, England||align=center|
Kensington Palace

Kensington Palace

Kensington Palace is a royal residence set in Kensington Gardens in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. It has been a residence of the British Royal Family since the 17th century and is the official London residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke and...

,
London,
England||Married 1884 Prince Louis of Battenberg (1854–1921),
Admiral of the Fleet, First Sea Lord

First Sea Lord

The First Sea Lord is the professional head of the Royal Navy and the whole Naval Service; it was formerly known as First Naval Lord. He also holds the title of Chief of Naval Staff, and is known by the abbreviations 1SL/CNS...

[later Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven,
after renouncing German style and titles in July 1917],
and had issue (2 sons, 2 daughters):
Princess Alice

Princess Alice of Battenberg

Princess Alice of Battenberg, later Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and mother-in-law of Elizabeth II....

(1885–1969), Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark, and
mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is the husband of Elizabeth II. He is the United Kingdom's longest-serving consort and the oldest serving spouse of a reigning British monarch....

Princess Louise (1889–1965),
later Louise Mountbatten

Louise Mountbatten

Louise Alexandra Marie Irene Mountbatten became Queen consort of Sweden in 1950 and served as such until her death in 1965...

, Queen of Sweden and
stepmother of Queen Ingrid of Denmark

Ingrid of Sweden

Ingrid of Sweden was a Swedish princess and the queen consort of King Frederick IX of Denmark.-Background:...

Prince George (1892–1938), later George Mountbatten,
2nd Marquess of Milford Haven

George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven

Captain George Louis Victor Henry Serge Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven , styled Earl of Medina between 1917 and 1921, was born the son of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine at Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany...

and
Prince Louis (1900–1979), later Earl Mountbatten of Burma

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC, FRS , was a British statesman and naval officer, and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...

,
Admiral of the Fleet, last Viceroy of India & First Sea Lord
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|align=center| || Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine||align=center|
Bessungen, Hesse

Hesse

, Germany||align=center|
Alapaevsk, Russia||Married 1885 Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia was a son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia...

(1857–1905),
no issue.
|-bgcolor=fff8f8 valign="top"
|align=center| || Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine
Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine
Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine was the third child and third daughter of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine. Her maternal grandparents were Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert...

||align=center|
Darmstadt

Darmstadt

, Hesse

Hesse

, Germany||align=center|
Hemmelmark, Germany
|bgcolor=fff8ee|Married 1888 Prince Heinrich of Prussia
Prince Heinrich of Prussia
Prince Henry of Prussia was a younger brother of German Emperor William II and a Prince of Prussia...

(1862–1929),
son of her aunt Victoria

Victoria, Princess Royal

, the British Princess Royal & German Empress (see above),
and had issue (3 sons):
Prince Waldemar of Prussia (1889-1945)

Prince Waldemar of Prussia (1889-1945)

Prince Waldemar of Prussia was the eldest son of Prince Heinrich of Prussia and his wife, Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine.-Biography:-Marriage:...

,
Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1896-1978)

Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1896-1978)

Prince Sigismund of Prussia , was the second son of Prince Heinrich of Prussia and his wife, Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine...

and
Prince Heinrich of Prussia (1900-1904).
|-bgcolor=f0fcff valign="top"
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| rowspan="3"|Ernst Ludwig
Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse
Ernest Louis Charles Albert William , was the last Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine from 1892 until 1918...

,
later Grand Duke of Hesse
| align=center rowspan="3"|
Darmstadt

Darmstadt

, Hesse

Hesse

,
Germany
| align=center rowspan="3"|
Langen

Langen, Hesse

Langen is a town of roughly 36,000 in the Offenbach district in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany, between Darmstadt and Frankfurt am Main...

,
Germany
| Succeeded as head of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1892.
|-bgcolor=e8fffc
| Married (1) 1894 Princess Victoria Melita (1876–1936),
daughter of his uncle Prince Alfred of Edinburgh (see below),
and had issue (1 son, 1 daughter):
Princess Elisabeth (1895–1903) and
an unnamed stillborn

Stillbirth

son (1901);
¶ the marriage ended in divorce in 1901.
|-
| bgcolor=f0fcff| Married (2) 1905 Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich
Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich
Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich , was the second wife of Ernst-Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and the mother of his two sons.-Family:...

(1871–1937)
and had issue (2 sons):
Hereditary Grand Duke Georg Donatus

Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse

Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse was the first child of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich....

(1906–1937) and
Prince Ludwig

Prince Louis of Hesse and by Rhine

Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine was the youngest son of Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse by his second wife Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich....

(1908–1968).
|-bgcolor=f0fcff valign="top"
|align=center| ||Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine
Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine
Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine , , was the haemophiliac second son of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, thus he is a grandson of Queen Victoria...

||align=center|
Darmstadt

Darmstadt

, Hesse

Hesse

,
Germany||align=center|
Darmstadt

Darmstadt

, Hesse

Hesse

,
Germany||Suffered from haemophilia

Haemophilia in European royalty

Haemophilia figured prominently in the history of European royalty in the 19th and 20th centuries. Britain's Queen Victoria, through two of her five daughters , passed the mutation to various royal houses across the continent, including the royal families of Spain, Germany and Russia. Victoria's...

and died from a brain hemorrhage after falling from a window.
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|align=center|

|| Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine,
later Empress Alexandra of All the Russias||align=center|
Darmstadt

Darmstadt

, Hesse

Hesse

,
Germany||align=center|
Ekaterinburg, Russia||Married 1894 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
Nicholas II of Russia
Nicholas II was the last Emperor of Russia, Grand Prince of Finland, and titular King of Poland. His official short title was Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias and he is known as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church.Nicholas II ruled from 1894 until...

(1872–1918),
taking the name Alexandra Feodorovna,
and had issue (1 son, 4 daughters):
Grand Duchess Olga

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia ; , November 16 after 1900 – July 17, 1918) was the eldest daughter of the last autocratic ruler of the Russian Empire, Emperor Nicholas II, and of Empress Alexandra of Russia....

(1895–1918),
Grand Duchess Tatiana

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia , , was the second daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last monarch of Russia, and of Tsarina Alexandra...

(1897–1918),
Grand Duchess Maria (1899–1918),
Grand Duchess Anastasia

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna....

(1901–1918),
Tsarevich Alexei (1904–1918).
¶ The entire family was killed in July 1918 in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution, as was Alexandra's sister, the Grand Duchess Elisabeth (Princess Elisabeth of Hesse, see above).
|-bgcolor=fff8f8 valign="top"
|align=center| ||Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine
Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine
Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine , , was the youngest daughter of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and Ludwig IV, the Grand Duke of Hesse. Her mother was the second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha...

||align=center|
Darmstadt

Darmstadt

, Hesse

Hesse

,
Germany||align=center|
Darmstadt

Darmstadt

,
Hesse

Hesse

, Germany||Died young from diphtheria

Diphtheria

.
|-
|}

Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh

Prince Alfred

Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

(1844–1900) married the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853–1920), daughter of Tsar Alexander II

Alexander II of Russia

Alexander II , also known as Alexander the Liberator was the Emperor of the Russian Empire from 3 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881...

, on 23 January 1874 at the Winter Palace

Winter Palace

The Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, was, from 1732 to 1917, the official residence of the Russian monarchs. Situated between the Palace Embankment and the Palace Square, adjacent to the site of Peter the Great's original Winter Palace, the present and fourth Winter Palace was built and...

in Saint Petersburg, Russia. They had 2 sons (one stillborn), 4 daughters, 10 grandsons (8 of whom survived their first week of life) and 8 granddaughters. In June 1893, Prince Alfred achieved the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

rank of Admiral of the Fleet

Admiral of the Fleet

An admiral of the fleet is a military naval officer of the highest rank. In many nations the rank is reserved for wartime or ceremonial appointments...

, shortly before becoming Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in August 1893.

Prince Alfred's daughter (and Queen Victoria's granddaughter) Princess Marie of Edinburgh became Queen of Romania in 1914 after marrying the future King Ferdinand in 1893.

King Ferdinand's and Queen Marie's son King Carol II of Romania (Victoria's great-grandson) was father to King Michael of Romania (a great-great-grandson of Victoria);
their daughter (and Victoria's great-granddaughter) Princess Elisabeth was married from 1922 to 1935 to King George II of Greece
George II of Greece
George II reigned as King of Greece from 1922 to 1924 and from 1935 to 1947.-Early life, first period of kingship and exile:George was born at the royal villa at Tatoi, near Athens, the eldest son of King Constantine I of Greece and his wife, Princess Sophia of Prussia...

(reigned 1923–1924 & 1935–1947); and
their daughter (and Victoria's great-granddaughter) Princess Marie was married to King Alexander I of Yugoslavia
Alexander I of Yugoslavia
Alexander I , also known as Alexander the Unifier was the first king of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia as well as the last king of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes .-Childhood:...

(reigned 1921–1934) and the mother of King Peter II (reigned 1934–1945, another great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria)

Queen Victoria → Prince Alfred → Queen Marie of Romania → King Carol II → King Michael

Queen Victoria → Prince Alfred → Queen Marie of Romania → Queen Elisabeth of the Hellenes

Queen Victoria → Prince Alfred → Queen Marie of Romania → Queen Marie of Yugoslavia → King Peter II

{| class="wikitable" style="border:2px solid goldenrod"
| bgcolor=bb88ff align=center colspan="5"|The Marriage of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia
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|Prince Alfred

Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

,
later Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
and Duke of Edinburgh

Duke of Edinburgh

;
Admiral of the Fleet||align=center|6 August
1844
Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle

,
Berkshire

Berkshire

, England||align=center|31 July
1900
Rosenau Castle

Schloss Rosenau, Coburg

Schloss Rosenau, called in English The Rosenau or Rosenau Palace, is a former castle, converted into a ducal country house, between the towns of Coburg and Rödental, formerly in Saxe-Coburg, now lying in Bavaria, Germany....

,
Coburg

Coburg

Coburg is a town located on the Itz River in Bavaria, Germany. Its 2005 population was 42,015. Long one of the Thuringian states of the Wettin line, it joined with Bavaria by popular vote in 1920...

,
Germany
|valign="middle" bgcolor=fefefe rowspan="2"| Married 23 January 1874
at the Winter Palace

Winter Palace

, Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...

, Russia;

2 sons (1 still-born

Stillbirth

), 4 daughters
(including Marie of Edinburgh

Marie of Edinburgh

Marie of Romania was Queen consort of Romania from 1914 to 1927, as the wife of Ferdinand I of Romania.-Early life:...

, Queen of Romania)

10 grandsons (of whom 1 stillborn), 8 granddaughters
(including King Carol II of Romania

Carol II of Romania

Carol II reigned as King of Romania from 8 June 1930 until 6 September 1940. Eldest son of Ferdinand, King of Romania, and his wife, Queen Marie, a daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second eldest son of Queen Victoria...

, Queen Elisabeth of Greece

Elisabeth of Romania

Elisabeth of Romania was the Queen Consort of King George II of Greece.-Biography:...

and Queen Marie of Yugoslavia

Marie of Romania

Marie of Romania was Queen consort of Romania from 1914 to 1927, as the wife of Ferdinand I of Romania.-Early life:...

)

¶ Prince Alfred was made Duke of Edinburgh

Duke of Edinburgh

on 24 May 1866, and succeeded as Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on 22 August 1893, living there until his death in 1900.
|-valign="top" bgcolor=fff8f8
|align=center|

| Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia,
daughter of
Tsar Alexander II

Alexander II of Russia

Alexander II , also known as Alexander the Liberator was the Emperor of the Russian Empire from 3 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881...

|align=center| 17 October
1853
Tsarskoye Selo

Tsarskoye Selo

Tsarskoye Selo is the town containing a former Russian residence of the imperial family and visiting nobility, located south from the center of St. Petersburg. It is now part of the town of Pushkin and of the World Heritage Site Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments.-History:In...

,
Russia
|align=center| 24 October
1920
Zürich

Zürich

Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...

,
Switzerland
|}

Children of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, and Grand Duchess Marie

{| class="sortable wikitable"
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|align=center| || Prince Alfred,
later Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha||align=center|
Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace, in London, is the principal residence and office of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal hospitality...

,
London||align=center|
Martinnsbrunn Sanatorium, Gratsch,
Meran (Merano),
Austria||Rumoured, but never proven to have married in 1898 Mabel Fitzgerald (with no issue).
¶ Alfred suffered from nervous depression and possibly syphilis

Syphilis

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the spirochete bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum. The primary route of transmission is through sexual contact; however, it may also be transmitted from mother to fetus during pregnancy or at birth, resulting in congenital syphilis...

. He attempted suicide by shooting himself with a revolver, and was sent to recover at Schloss (Castle) Friedenstein in Gotha

Gotha (town)

Gotha is a town in Thuringia, within the central core of Germany. It is the capital of the district of Gotha.- History :The town has existed at least since the 8th century, when it was mentioned in a document signed by Charlemagne as Villa Gotaha . Its importance derives from having been chosen in...

, Germany, before being moved, while still badly wounded, to the Martinnsbrunn Sanatorium in Gratsch near Meran (Merano) in the South Tyrol

South Tyrol

South Tyrol , also known by its Italian name Alto Adige, is an autonomous province in northern Italy. It is one of the two autonomous provinces that make up the autonomous region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. The province has an area of and a total population of more than 500,000 inhabitants...

(Austria, now Italy), where he died.
|-valign="top" bgcolor=fff8f8
|align=center| || Princess Marie
of Edinburgh
Marie of Edinburgh
Marie of Romania was Queen consort of Romania from 1914 to 1927, as the wife of Ferdinand I of Romania.-Early life:...

,
later Queen of Romania||align=center|
Eastwell Park
Eastwell Park
Eastwell Park was an English stately home in the civil parish of Eastwell, adjoining Ashford in Kent, that for a time served as a royal residence...

, Kent
Kent
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...

||align=center|
Sinaia
Sinaia
Sinaia is a town and a mountain resort in Prahova County, Romania. The town was named after Sinaia Monastery, around which it was built; the monastery in turn is named after the Biblical Mount Sinai...

,
Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

||Married 1893 Ferdinand of Romania (1865–1927),
— later King Ferdinand (1914–1927),
and had issue (3 sons, 2 daughters):
Crown Prince Carol (1893–1953), later King Carol II

Carol II of Romania

(1930–40),
father of King Michael,
Princess Elisabeta

Elisabeth of Romania

Elisabeth of Romania was the Queen Consort of King George II of Greece.-Biography:...

(1894–1956), later Queen of Greece,
Princess Marie (1900–1961), later Queen of Yugoslavia and
mother of King Peter II of Yugoslavia

Peter II of Yugoslavia

Peter II, also known as Peter II Karađorđević , was the third and last King of Yugoslavia...

,
Prince Nicholas

Prince Nicholas of Romania

| style="float:right;"|Prince Nicholas of Romania was the second son of King Ferdinand I and Queen Marie of Romania.- Biography :Born in Peleş Castle, Sinaia, Nicholas was the younger brother of Carol, heir apparent, who renounced his rights of succession on 12 December 1925...

(1903–1978),
Princess Ileana

Princess Ileana of Romania

Princess Ileana of Romania was the youngest daughter of Ferdinand I of Romania, King of the Romanians, and his consort Queen Marie of Romania. She was born Her Royal Highness Ileana, Princess of Romania, Princess of Hohenzollern...

(1909–1991), and
Prince Mircea

Prince Mircea of Romania

Prince Mircea of Romania .Mircea was the third son and youngest child of Queen Marie and King Ferdinand of Romania...

(1913–1916).
|-valign="top" bgcolor=fff8f8
|align=center rowspan="2"|
|rowspan="2"| Princess Victoria Melita
later Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna of Russia
|rowspan="2" align=center |
San Antonio Palace
San Anton Palace
San Anton Palace is a palace located in Attard, Malta. It is the official residence of the President of Malta, and is surrounded by both private and public gardens.-History:...

,
Malta
Malta
Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...

|rowspan="2" align=center|
Amorbach
Amorbach
Amorbach is a town in the Miltenberg district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany, with some 4,100 inhabitants .- Location :...

, Bavaria
Bavaria
Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...

, Germany
| bgcolor=fff8ef| Married 1894 (1) her first cousin, Ernest Louis

Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse

Ernest Louis Charles Albert William , was the last Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine from 1892 until 1918...

(1862–1937), Grand Duke of Hesse (1892–1918),
the son of her aunt Princess Alice

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom

(see above),
and had issue (1 stillborn son, 1 daughter):
Princess Elisabeth (1895–1903) and
an unnamed stillborn

Stillbirth

son (1901).
¶ The marriage ended in divorce in 1901.
|-valign="top" bgcolor=fff8f8
| Married (2) 1905 Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich of Russia (1876–1938) and had issue (1 son, 2 daughters):
Princess Maria Kirillovna

Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia

Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia, was the eldest daughter of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia and Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna. She was born in Coburg when her parents were in exile because their marriage had not been approved by Tsar Nicholas II...

(1907–1951),
Princess Kira Kirillovna

Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia

Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia was the second daughter of Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia and Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna...

(1909–1967) and
Prince Vladimir Kirillovich (1917–1992).
|-valign="top" bgcolor=fff8f8
|align=center|

||Princess Alexandra||align="center"|
Rosenau Castle
Schloss Rosenau, Coburg
Schloss Rosenau, called in English The Rosenau or Rosenau Palace, is a former castle, converted into a ducal country house, between the towns of Coburg and Rödental, formerly in Saxe-Coburg, now lying in Bavaria, Germany....

,
Coburg
Coburg
Coburg is a town located on the Itz River in Bavaria, Germany. Its 2005 population was 42,015. Long one of the Thuringian states of the Wettin line, it joined with Bavaria by popular vote in 1920...

, Germany||align="center"|
Schwäbisch Hall
Schwäbisch Hall
Schwäbisch Hall is a town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and capital of the district of Schwäbisch Hall. The town is located in the valley of the river Kocher in the north-eastern part of Baden-Württemberg....

,
Germany||Married 1896 Prince Ernest II of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1863–1950) and had issue (2 sons, 3 daughters):
Hereditary Prince Gottfried (1897–1960),
Princess Marie-Melita

Princess Marie Melita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

Princess Marie Melita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg was the Duchess consort of Schleswig-Holstein as the wife of Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein...

(1899–1967),
Princess Alexandra Beatrice (1901–1963),
Princess Irma (1902–1986), and
Prince Alfred (16–18 April 1911)
¶ The senior Princess Alexandra joined the National Socialist German Workers Party
National Socialist German Workers Party
The National Socialist German Workers' Party , commonly known in English as the Nazi Party, was a political party in Germany between 1920 and 1945. Its predecessor, the German Workers' Party , existed from 1919 to 1920...

(NSDAP) in 1937.
|-valign="top" bgcolor=f0fcff
|align=center|

||Stillborn son||align="center"|
Eastwell Park

Eastwell Park

Eastwell Park was an English stately home in the civil parish of Eastwell, adjoining Ashford in Kent, that for a time served as a royal residence...

, Kent

Kent

Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...

, England||align="center"|
Eastwell Park

Eastwell Park

Eastwell Park was an English stately home in the civil parish of Eastwell, adjoining Ashford in Kent, that for a time served as a royal residence...

, Kent

Kent

, England||Died at birth.
|-valign="top" bgcolor=fff8f8
|align=center| || Princess Beatrice||align="center"|
Eastwell Park
Eastwell Park
Eastwell Park was an English stately home in the civil parish of Eastwell, adjoining Ashford in Kent, that for a time served as a royal residence...

, Kent
Kent
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...

,
England||align="center"|
Sanlúcar de Barrameda
Sanlúcar de Barrameda
Sanlúcar de Barrameda is a city in the northwest of Cádiz province, part of the autonomous community of Andalucía in southern Spain. Sanlúcar is located on the left bank at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River opposite the Doñana National Park, 52 km from the provincial capital Cádiz and...

, Spain||Married 1909 Prince Alfonso de Orléans y Borbón, Duke of GallieraInfante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera
Alfonso de Orleans y Borbón, Infante of Spain, Duke of Galliera was a Spanish military aviator.-Early life:...

(1886–1975), Spanish Air Force chief of staff,
and had issue (3 sons):
Prince Álvaro de Orléans (1910–1997), later Duke of Galliera,
Prince Alonso de Orléans (1912–1936) and
Prince Araulfo de Orléans (1913–1974).
|-
|}

Princess Helena
Princess Helena

Princess Helena of the United Kingdom

Princess Helena was a member of the British Royal Family, the third daughter and fifth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert....

(1846–1923) married Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein

Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein

Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein was a minor German prince who became a member of the British Royal Family through his marriage to Princess Helena of the United Kingdom , the fifth child and third daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of...

(1831–1917) in Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle

's private chapel on 5 July 1866. Two sons and two daughters survived childhood; two other sons died within ten days of their birth. Princess Helena and Prince Christian had no legitimate grandchildren and one natural granddaughter who died without having issue of her own. Like other British royal holders of German titles (such as Admiral Louis Battenberg), Princess Helena, Prince Christian, and their two daughters gave up their titles to Schleswig-Holstein in 1917 when the British and German Empires were at war.

{| class="wikitable" style="border:2px solid goldenrod"
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| width="20%"|Name
| width="11%"|Birth
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| Marriage and children
|-bgcolor=fff8f8 valign="top"
|align=center|

|Princess Helena

Princess Helena of the United Kingdom

Princess Helena was a member of the British Royal Family, the third daughter and fifth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert....

|align=center| 25 May
1846
Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace, in London, is the principal residence and office of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal hospitality...

,
London, England
|align=center| 9 June
1923
Schomberg House

Schomberg House

Schomberg House is a mansion on the south side of Pall Mall in central London which has a colourful history. Only the street facade survives today. It was built for Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, a Huguenot general in the service of the British crown...

, London, England
|bgcolor=fefefe rowspan="2" valign="middle"| Married 5 July 1866
in Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle

, Windsor, Berkshire

Windsor, Berkshire

.

4 sons (of whom 2 survived their first month), 2 daughters
(including Duke Albert

Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein

Prince Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein was a grandson of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. He was the second son of Victoria's daughter, Princess Helena, by her husband Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein...

, Princess Helena Victoria

Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein

-Titles:*1870–1917: Her Highness Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein*1917–1948: Her Highness Princess Helena Victoria-Honours:British honours*VA: Lady of the Order of Victoria and Albert...

,
and Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein

Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein

-Titles:*1872–1891: Her Highness Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein*1891–1900: Her Highness Princess Aribert of Anhalt*1900–1917: Her Highness Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein...

);

1 natural granddaughter
(Valerie Marie zu Schleswig-Holstein, Duchess of Arenberg

Arenberg

Arenberg, also spelled as Aremberg or Ahremberg, is a historic county, principality and finally duchy located in modern Germany. The Dukes of Arenberg remain a prominent Belgian aristocratic family.- History :...

)

¶ Princess Helena and Prince Christian have no surviving descendants today; Valerie Marie died childless.
|-bgcolor=f0fcff valign="top"
|align=center|

|Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein was a minor German prince who became a member of the British Royal Family through his marriage to Princess Helena of the United Kingdom , the fifth child and third daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of...

|align=center| 22 January
1831
Augustenborg, Denmark
|align=center| 28 October
1917
Schomberg House

Schomberg House

, London, England
|}

Children of Princess Helena and Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein

{| class="sortable wikitable"
|-
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|align=center|

|| Prince Christian Victor
of Schleswig-Holstein

Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein

Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein GCB GCVO DSO KStJ was a member of the British Royal Family. He was the eldest son of Princess Helena, third daughter of Queen Victoria....

||align="center"|
Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle

,
Berkshire

Berkshire

, England||align="center"|
Pretoria

Pretoria

Pretoria is a city located in the northern part of Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is one of the country's three capital cities, serving as the executive and de facto national capital; the others are Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital.Pretoria is...

,
South Africa||Christian Victor died of malaria

Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals caused by eukaryotic protists of the genus Plasmodium. The disease results from the multiplication of Plasmodium parasites within red blood cells, causing symptoms that typically include fever and headache, in severe cases...

while serving as a British officer on active duty in the Boer War

Boer War

The Boer Wars were two wars fought between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics, the Oranje Vrijstaat and the Republiek van Transvaal ....

.
|-valign="top" bgcolor=f0fcff
|align=center| || Prince Albert,

Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein

later Duke of Schleswig-Holstein||align="center"|
Frogmore House

Frogmore House

,
Windsor, Berkshire

Windsor, Berkshire

||align="center"|
Berlin, Germany||Succeeded as head of the House of Oldenburg

House of Oldenburg

The House of Oldenburg is a North German dynasty and one of Europe's most influential Royal Houses with branches that rule or have ruled in Denmark, Russia, Greece, Norway, Schleswig, Holstein, Oldenburg and Sweden...

in 1921.
Never married but had a twice married and childless natural daughter,
Valerie Marie zu Schleswig-Holstein
(née Schwalb) (1900–1953),
by Baroness Bertha Marie Madeleine of Wernitz (1868–1900).
|-valign="top" bgcolor=fff8f8
|align=center| || Princess Helena Victoria

Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein

,
until 1917: Princess of Schleswig-Holstein||align="center"|
Frogmore House

Frogmore House

,
Windsor, Berkshire

Windsor, Berkshire

||align="center"|
Berkeley Square

Berkeley Square

Berkeley Square is a town square in the West End of London, England, in the City of Westminster. It was originally laid out in the mid 18th century by architect William Kent...

,
London, England||Died unmarried.
|-valign="top" bgcolor=fff8f8
|align=center| || Princess Marie Louise,

Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein

until 1917: Princess of Schleswig-Holstein||align="center"|
Cumberland Lodge

Cumberland Lodge

Cumberland Lodge is a 17th century country house in Windsor Great Park located 3.5 miles south of Windsor Castle. It is now occupied by a charitable foundation which holds residential conferences, lectures and discussions concerning the burning issues facing society. The primary beneficiaries of...

,
Windsor, Berkshire

Windsor, Berkshire

||align="center"|
Berkeley Square

Berkeley Square

Berkeley Square is a town square in the West End of London, England, in the City of Westminster. It was originally laid out in the mid 18th century by architect William Kent...

,
London, England||Married 1891 to Prince Aribert of Anhalt

Prince Aribert of Anhalt

Prince Aribert of Anhalt , was a Prince of the German Duchy of Anhalt.He was regent of Anhalt from September to November 1918 on behalf of his underage nephew Duke Joachim Ernst...

(1866–1933);
no issue;
marriage was dissolved in 1900.
|-valign="top" bgcolor=f0fcff
|align=center|

|| Prince Harold
of Schleswig-Holstein||align="center"|
Cumberland Lodge

Cumberland Lodge

,
Windsor, Berkshire

Windsor, Berkshire

||align="center"|
Cumberland Lodge

Cumberland Lodge

,
Windsor, Berkshire

Windsor, Berkshire

||Died in infancy.
|-valign="top" bgcolor=f0fcff
|align=center|

|| Stillborn son||align="center"|||align="center"|||Died at birth.
|-
|}

Princess Louise

Princess Louise
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
The Princess Louise was a member of the British Royal Family, the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and her husband, Albert, Prince Consort.Louise's early life was spent moving between the various royal residences in the...

(1848–1939), who married John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll
John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll KG, KT, GCMG, GCVO, VD, PC , usually better known by the courtesy title Marquess of Lorne, by which he was known between 1847 and 1900, was a British nobleman and was the fourth Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883...

(1845–1914) in 1871, was the only one of Victoria's nine children who was childless. She was the first British monarch's child since 1515 to marry a subject rather than someone of royal blood.

{| class="wikitable" style="border:2px solid goldenrod"
| bgcolor=bb88ff align=center colspan="5"|The Marriage of Princess Louise and John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne
|-bgcolor=lavender align=center
| width="9%"|
| width="30%"|Name
| width="11%"|Birth
| width="11%"|Death
| width="38%"|Notes
|- valign="top" bgcolor=fff8f8
|align=center|
|The Princess Louise

Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll

|align=center|18 March
1848
Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace, in London, is the principal residence and office of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal hospitality...

,
Westminster

Westminster

Westminster is an area of central London, within the City of Westminster, England. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, southwest of the City of London and southwest of Charing Cross...

(London)
| valign="top" align=center|3 December
1939
Kensington Palace

Kensington Palace

,
London
|valign="middle" bgcolor=fefefe rowspan="2"|Married 21 March 1871,
in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

St George's Chapel is the place of worship at Windsor Castle in England, United Kingdom. It is both a royal peculiar and the chapel of the Order of the Garter...

(Berkshire)

no issue

¶ The Marquess of Lorne was a member of the British House of Commons

British House of Commons

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords . Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster. The Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 650 members , who are known as Members...

from 1868 to 1878 and from 1895 to 1900. From 1878 to 1883 he served as Governor General of Canada

Governor General of Canada

The Governor General of Canada is the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II...

, representing his mother-in-law, Queen Victoria. In 1900, he succeeded as 9th Duke of Argyll

Duke of Argyll

(and thus joined the House of Lords

House of Lords

The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster....

).
|-valign="top" bgcolor=f0fcff
| align=center|

| John Douglas Sutherland Campbell

John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll

John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll KG, KT, GCMG, GCVO, VD, PC , usually better known by the courtesy title Marquess of Lorne, by which he was known between 1847 and 1900, was a British nobleman and was the fourth Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883...

,
M.P.

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

, Marquess of Lorne,
later Governor General of Canada

Governor General of Canada

The Governor General of Canada is the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II...

,
later 9th Duke of Argyll

Duke of Argyll

| align=center| 6 August
1845
London
| align=center| 2 May
1914
Cowes

Cowes

Cowes is an English seaport town and civil parish on the Isle of Wight. Cowes is located on the west bank of the estuary of the River Medina facing the smaller town of East Cowes on the east Bank...

,
Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught

Prince Arthur

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn

(1850–1942) married Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia (1860–1917) on 13 March 1879 at the St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle. They had 2 daughters and 1 son. In March 1911, King George had approved to appoint him as his representative, Governor General of Canada

Governor General of Canada

The Governor General of Canada is the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II...

. He became the first, and so far only, Governor General of Canada to be of the Blood Royal.

Prince Arthur's elder daughter (and Queen Victoria's granddaughter) Princess Margaret of Connaught became Crown Princess of Sweden in 1907 after marrying the future King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden in 1905.

Princess Margaret and Prince Gustav Adolf's grandson (and a great-great-grandson of Victoria) King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden is the current monarch of Sweden having reigned from 1973. He is the youngest and only son of Prince Gustav Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten.
Their only daughter (and Victoria's great-granddaughter) Princess Ingrid of Sweden married to King Frederik IX of Denmark (reigned 1947–1972) and was the mother of present Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
Margrethe II of Denmark
Margrethe II is the Queen regnant of the Kingdom of Denmark. In 1972 she became the first female monarch of Denmark since Margaret I, ruler of the Scandinavian countries in 1375-1412 during the Kalmar Union.-Early life:...

and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
Queen Anne-Marie of Greece is the wife of former King Constantine II of Greece, who was deposed in referendums in 1973 and in 1974. Her title "Queen of Greece" is not recognized under the terms of the republican Constitution of Greece...

, great-great-granddaughters of Queen Victoria.

Queen Victoria → Prince Arthur → Princess Margaret → Prince Gustav Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten → King Carl XVI Gustav

Queen Victoria → Prince Arthur → Princess Margaret → Princess Ingrid → Queen Margrethe II and Queen Anne-Marie

{| class="wikitable" style="border:2px solid goldenrod"
| bgcolor=bb88ff align=center colspan="5"|The Marriage of Arthur, Duke of Connaught, and Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia
|-bgcolor=lavender align=center
| width="9%"|
| width="20%"|Name
| width="11%"|Birth
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| Notes
|- valign="top" bgcolor=f0fcff
|align=center|

|The Prince Arthur

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn

,
Duke of Connaught and Strathearn

Duke of Connaught and Strathearn

The title Duke of Connaught and Strathearn was granted by Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to her third son, Prince Arthur....

Field Marshal,
Governor General of Canada

Governor General of Canada

The Governor General of Canada is the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II...

|align=center|1 May
1850
Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace, in London, is the principal residence and office of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal hospitality...

,
Westminster

Westminster

Westminster is an area of central London, within the City of Westminster, England. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, southwest of the City of London and southwest of Charing Cross...

(London)
|align=center|16 January
1942
Bagshot Park

Bagshot Park

Bagshot Park is a royal residence located near Bagshot, a village south west of Windsor and approximately north east of Guildford . It is the current home of The Earl and Countess of Wessex. Bagshot Park is on Bagshot Heath, a fifty square-mile tract of formerly open land in Surrey and Berkshire...

, Surrey

Surrey

Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...

|valign="middle" bgcolor=fefefe rowspan="2"| Married 13 March 1879
in St. George's Chapel of Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle

(Berkshire

Berkshire

)

1 son, 2 daughters

6 grandsons, 1 granddaughter
(including Queen Ingrid

Ingrid of Sweden

Ingrid of Sweden was a Swedish princess and the queen consort of King Frederick IX of Denmark.-Background:...

of Denmark and
Count Carl Johan Bernadotte, the last living great-grandchild of Queen Victoria)

¶ The Duke of Connaught was made a Field Marshal in 1902 and served as Governor General of Canada

Governor General of Canada

The Governor General of Canada is the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II...

(representing his nephew King George V) from 1911 to 1916.
|-valign="top" bgcolor=fff8f8
|align=center|

| Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia
|align=center| 25 July
1860
Potsdam

Potsdam

Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....

,
Germany
|align=center| 14 March
1917
Clarence House

Clarence House

Clarence House is a royal home in London, situated on The Mall, in the City of Westminster. It is attached to St. James's Palace and shares the palace's garden. For nearly 50 years, from 1953 to 2002, it was home to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, but is since then the official residence of The...

,
Westminster

Westminster

Westminster is an area of central London, within the City of Westminster, England. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, southwest of the City of London and southwest of Charing Cross...

(London)
|}

Children of Arthur, Duke of Connaught, and Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia

{| class="toccolours collapsible collapsed" width="100%;" align="center"
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|align=center| ||Princess Margaret of Connaught
Princess Margaret of Connaught
Princess Margaret of Connaught was the daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, third son of Queen Victoria, and his wife, Princess Luise Margarete of Prussia...

||align="center"|
Bagshot Park

Bagshot Park

, Surrey

Surrey

||align="center"|
Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

, Sweden||Married 1905 Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
Gustaf VI Adolf - Oscar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf - was King of Sweden from October 29, 1950 until his death. His official title was King of Sweden, of the Goths and of the Wends. He was the eldest son of King Gustaf V and his wife Victoria of Baden...

(1882–1973)
— later King Gustav VI (1950–1973)
and had issue (4 sons, 1 daughter):
Prince Gustav Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (1906–1947)
— father of King Carl XVI Gustav,
Prince Sigvard Bernadotte, Duke of Uppland (1907–2002),
Princess Ingrid

Ingrid of Sweden

Ingrid of Sweden was a Swedish princess and the queen consort of King Frederick IX of Denmark.-Background:...

(1910–2000), later Queen of Denmark,
mother of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark

Margrethe II of Denmark

Margrethe II is the Queen regnant of the Kingdom of Denmark. In 1972 she became the first female monarch of Denmark since Margaret I, ruler of the Scandinavian countries in 1375-1412 during the Kalmar Union.-Early life:...

, and
mother of Queen Anne-Marie of Greece

Queen Anne-Marie of Greece

Queen Anne-Marie of Greece is the wife of former King Constantine II of Greece, who was deposed in referendums in 1973 and in 1974. Her title "Queen of Greece" is not recognized under the terms of the republican Constitution of Greece...

,
Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland

Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland

Prince Bertil of Sweden , Duke of Halland, was the third son of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden and his first wife, Princess Margaret of Connaught.The prince was born at Stockholm...

(1912–1997), and
Prince Carl Johan, Duke of Dalarna (born 1916),
— later Count Carl Bernadotte of Wisborg and, since 2007,
the last surviving great-grandchild of Queen Victoria.
|-valign="top" bgcolor=f0fcff
|align=center| ||Prince Arthur of Connaught
Prince Arthur of Connaught
Prince Arthur of Connaught and Strathearn was a member of the British Royal Family, a grandson of Queen Victoria. Prince Arthur held the title of a British prince with the style His Royal Highness...

||align="center"|
Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle

, Berkshire

Berkshire

||align="center"|
London, England||Married 1913
Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife

Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife

Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife was a member of the British Royal Family, a granddaughter of King Edward VII...

(1891–1959)
and had issue (1 son):
Prince Alastair (1914–1943), later 2nd Duke of Connaught.
|-valign="top" bgcolor=fff8f8
|align=center|

||Princess Patricia of Connaught
Princess Patricia of Connaught
Princess Patricia of Connaught was a member of the British Royal Family, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria...

,
later Lady Patricia Ramsay||align="center"|
Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace, in London, is the principal residence and office of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal hospitality...

, Westminster

Westminster

Westminster is an area of central London, within the City of Westminster, England. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, southwest of the City of London and southwest of Charing Cross...

(London)||align="center"|
Windlesham

Windlesham

Windlesham is a village in the Surrey Heath district of Surrey in South East England. It is also the name of the parish that covers Bagshot and Lightwater, in addition to Windlesham...

, Surrey

Surrey

||Married 1919 the Honourable Alexander Ramsay (1881–1972) and had issue (1 son):
Alexander Ramsay of Mar

Alexander Ramsay of Mar

Captain Alexander Arthur Alfonso David Maule Ramsay of Mar was the only child of HRH Princess Patricia of Connaught, who renounced her royal title and style when she married then-Captain the Hon. Alexander Ramsay in February 1919...

(1919–2000).
¶ Princess Patricia relinquished her title of Princess and style of Her Royal Highness upon her marriage and was known as Lady Patricia Ramsay. (However, she kept her place in line of succession.)
|}

Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany

Prince Leopold
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
The Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany was the eighth child and fourth son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Leopold was later created Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence, and Baron Arklow...

(1853–1884) married Princess Helene of Waldeck-Pyrmont (1861–1922) on 27 April 1882 at St George's Chapel

St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

St George's Chapel is the place of worship at Windsor Castle in England, United Kingdom. It is both a royal peculiar and the chapel of the Order of the Garter...

, Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle

. They had 1 daughter and 1 son. He inherited the disease of haemophilia

Haemophilia in European royalty

from his mother, Queen Victoria, and spent most of his life as a semi-invalid.

His daughter, Princess Alice of Albany

Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone

married Prince Alexander of Teck

Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone

Major-General Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone , was a close relative of the shared British and Canadian royal family, as well as a British military commander and major-general who served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, the...

, the younger brother of Queen Mary

Mary of Teck

Mary of Teck was the queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, as the wife of King-Emperor George V....

in 1904 and became Countess of Athlone when her husband was created Earl of Athlone in June 1917. She was the longest-lived Princess of the Blood Royal of the British Royal Family and the last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria.

Prince Charles Edward

Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the fourth and last reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, two duchies in Germany , and the head of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1900 until his death in 1954...

, Prince Leopold's posthumous son, succeeded him as 2nd Duke of Albany

Duke of Albany

Duke of Albany is a peerage title that has occasionally been bestowed on the younger sons in the Scottish, and later the British, royal family, particularly in the Houses of Stuart and Hanover....

upon his birth. In 1900, Charles Edward succeeded his uncle Alfred

Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

as Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and was forced to abdicated his ducal throne in 1918 as well as deprived of his British royal titles, peerages and honours in 1919 due to his British hostility. He is the grandfather of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden through his elder daughter, Princess Sibylla

Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Princess Sibylla of Sweden, Duchess of Västerbotten , was the wife of Prince Gustav Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and is the mother of the current King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf.-Early life:She was the daughter of Charles Edward,...

.

Queen Victoria → Prince Leopold → Prince Charles Edward → Princess Sibylla → King Carl XVI Gustav

{| class="wikitable" style="border:2px solid goldenrod"
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|-bgcolor=lavender align=center
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|- valign="top" bgcolor=f0fcff
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|Prince Leopold

Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany

,
Duke of Albany

Duke of Albany

Duke of Albany is a peerage title that has occasionally been bestowed on the younger sons in the Scottish, and later the British, royal family, particularly in the Houses of Stuart and Hanover....

|align=center|7 April
1853
Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace, in London, is the principal residence and office of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal hospitality...

,
Westminster

Westminster

Westminster is an area of central London, within the City of Westminster, England. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, southwest of the City of London and southwest of Charing Cross...

(London)
|align=center|28 March
1884
Cannes

Cannes

Cannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. It is a Commune of France in the Alpes-Maritimes department....

, France

French Third Republic

The French Third Republic was the republican government of France from 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed due to the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, to 1940, when France was overrun by Nazi Germany during World War II, resulting in the German and Italian occupations of France...

|valign="middle" bgcolor=fefefe rowspan="2"| Married 27 April 1882
in St. George's Chapel of Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle

(Berkshire

Berkshire

Waldeck

-Places:* Waldeck Castle, a medieval fortress/castle in Germany* Waldeck, Hesse, a town in Hesse* Waldeck or Waldeck-Pyrmont, a principality in the German Empire and German Confederation, and a state in the Weimar Republic, named after the above castle and town* Waldeck, Bavaria, a village in the...

(now Hesse

Hesse

, Germany)
|align=center| 1 September
1922
Hinteriss,
Tyrol

Tyrol (state)

Tyrol is a state or Bundesland, located in the west of Austria. It comprises the Austrian part of the historical region of Tyrol.The state is split into two parts–called North Tyrol and East Tyrol–by a -wide strip of land where the state of Salzburg borders directly on the Italian province of...

,
Austria
|-
|}

Children of Leopold, Duke of Albany, and Princess Helena

{| class="sortable wikitable"
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|Princess Alice of Albany
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone was a member of the British Royal Family. She was the longest-lived Princess of the Blood Royal of the British Royal Family and the last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria...

later Countess of Athlone||align=center|
Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle is a medieval castle and royal residence in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, notable for its long association with the British royal family and its architecture. The original castle was built after the Norman invasion by William the Conqueror. Since the time of Henry I it...

, Berkshire
Berkshire
Berkshire is a historic county in the South of England. It is also often referred to as the Royal County of Berkshire because of the presence of the royal residence of Windsor Castle in the county; this usage, which dates to the 19th century at least, was recognised by the Queen in 1957, and...

|align=center|
Kensington Palace
Kensington Palace
Kensington Palace is a royal residence set in Kensington Gardens in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. It has been a residence of the British Royal Family since the 17th century and is the official London residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke and...

,
London
|Married 1904 Prince Alexander of Teck

Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone

(1874–1957),
later Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone,
Governor-General of South Africa and Canada
and had issue (2 sons, 1 daughter):
Princess May

Lady May Abel Smith

Lady May Abel Smith born Princess May of Teck was a descendant of the British Royal Family, a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. From her birth, she was known as Princess May of Teck, a title in the Kingdom of Württemberg...

(1906–1994),
Prince Rupert

Rupert Cambridge, Viscount Trematon

Prince Rupert of Teck , was a member of the British Royal Family, a great grandson of Queen Victoria...

(1907–1928) and
Prince Maurice (March–September 1910)
|-valign="top" bgcolor=f0fcff
|align=center|

|Prince Charles Edward, Duke of Albany,
later Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
|align=center|
Claremont House,
Surrey

Surrey

|align=center|
Coburg

Coburg

Coburg is a town located on the Itz River in Bavaria, Germany. Its 2005 population was 42,015. Long one of the Thuringian states of the Wettin line, it joined with Bavaria by popular vote in 1920...

, Germany
|¶ Last Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

The House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha is a German dynasty, the senior line of the Saxon House of Wettin that ruled the Ernestine duchies, including the duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha....

, 1900-1918. Deprived of Duchy of Albany, 1919. Joined 1935 the National Socialist German Workers Party
National Socialist German Workers Party
The National Socialist German Workers' Party , commonly known in English as the Nazi Party, was a political party in Germany between 1920 and 1945. Its predecessor, the German Workers' Party , existed from 1919 to 1920...

(NSDAP) and SA (Sturmabteilung
Sturmabteilung
The Sturmabteilung functioned as a paramilitary organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party . It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s...

). Member of the German Reichstag

Reichstag (Weimar Republic)

The Reichstag was the parliament of Weimar Republic .German constitution commentators consider only the Reichstag and now the Bundestag the German parliament. Another organ deals with legislation too: in 1867-1918 the Bundesrat, in 1919–1933 the Reichsrat and from 1949 on the Bundesrat...

, 1937–1945

Married 1905
Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein (1885–1970)
and had issue (3 sons, 2 daughters):
Hereditary Prince Johann Leopold

Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the eldest son of Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg...

(1906–1972),
Princess Sibylla

Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

(1908–1972), later a Swedish princess and
mother of King Carl XVI Gustav (acceded 1973)
Prince Hubertus

Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1909–1943)

Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was a member of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the second eldest son of Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and his wife, Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein....

(1909–1943),
Princess Caroline Mathilde

Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Princess Caroline Matilda of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha -Early life:...

(1912–1983), and
Prince Friedrich Josias (1918–1998).
|}

Princess Beatrice

Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom

The Princess Beatrice was a member of the British Royal Family. She was the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Juan Carlos, King of Spain, is her great-grandson...

(1857–1944) married Prince Henry of Battenberg

Prince Henry of Battenberg

Colonel Prince Henry of Battenberg was a morganatic descendant of the Grand Ducal House of Hesse, later becoming a member of the British Royal Family, through his marriage to Princess Beatrice.-Early life:...

(1858–1896) on 23 July 1885 in Whippingham

Whippingham

Whippingham is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight. It is located two kilometres south of East Cowes in the north of the Island.Whippingham is best known for its connections with Queen Victoria, especially its church, redesigned by Prince Albert. The church has a tower reminiscent of a...

on the Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight

. They had 3 sons, 1 daughter (the future Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain), 5 grandsons (1 stillborn) and 3 granddaughters. The present King Juan Carlos of Spain, as a grandson of Victoria Eugenie, is a great-grandson of Princess Beatrice and thus a great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria.

Queen Victoria → Princess Beatrice → Queen Victoria Eugenia → Don Juan, Count of Barcelona → King Juan Carlos I of Spain

Due to anti-German feeling during the First World War, the members of the Battenberg family who were British citizens relinquished their titles of Prince and Princess of Battenberg and the styles of Highness and Serene Highness. Under Royal Warrant

Royal Warrant

Royal warrants of appointment have been issued for centuries to those who supply goods or services to a royal court or certain royal personages. The warrant enables the supplier to advertise the fact that they supply to the royal family, so lending prestige to the supplier...

, they instead took the surname Mountbatten, an Anglicised

Anglicisation

Anglicisation, or anglicization , is the process of converting verbal or written elements of any other language into a form that is more comprehensible to an English speaker, or, more generally, of altering something such that it becomes English in form or character.The term most often refers to...

form of Battenberg.

{| class="wikitable" style="border:2px solid goldenrod"
| bgcolor=bb88ff align=center colspan="5"|The Marriage of Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenberg
|-bgcolor=lavender align=center
| width="9%"|
| width="20%"|Name
| width="11%"|Birth
| width="11%"|Death
| width="50%"|Marriage and children
|- valign="top" bgcolor=fff8f8
| align=center|

| Princess Beatrice

Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom

The Princess Beatrice was a member of the British Royal Family. She was the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Juan Carlos, King of Spain, is her great-grandson...

| align=center|14 April
1857
Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace, in London, is the principal residence and office of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal hospitality...

,
Westminster

Westminster

Westminster is an area of central London, within the City of Westminster, England. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, southwest of the City of London and southwest of Charing Cross...

(London)
| align=center|26 October
1944
Brantridge Park

Brantridge Park

Brantridge Park, Balcombe, West Sussex, England is one of the lesser royal residences. Standing in Brantridge Forest, it was the seat of the 1st Earl of Athlone, and his wife, Princess Alice of Albany, the last surviving granddaughter of Queen Victoria...

,
Sussex

Sussex

Sussex , from the Old English Sūþsēaxe , is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded on the north by Surrey, east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for local government into West...

| valign="middle" bgcolor=fefefe rowspan="2"| Married 23 July 1885,
at St. Mildred's Church, Whippingham

St. Mildred's Church, Whippingham

St. Mildred's Church, Whippingham is a parish church in the Church of England located in Whippingham, Isle of Wight.-History:The chancel of the church was built in 1854 and 1855 by the architect Albert Jenkins Humbert although Prince Albert is thought to have had a guiding hand.The remainder of the...

(near Osborne House

Osborne House

Osborne House is a former royal residence in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK. The house was built between 1845 and 1851 for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as a summer home and rural retreat....

) on the Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight

3 sons, 1 daughter
(Victoria Eugenie, Queen of Spain)

5 grandsons (one of them stillborn), 3 granddaughters
(including Don Juan, Count of Barcelona, Spanish heir-apparent from 1933 to 1969)
|-valign="top" bgcolor=f0fcff
| align=center|

| Prince Henry of Battenberg
Prince Henry of Battenberg
Colonel Prince Henry of Battenberg was a morganatic descendant of the Grand Ducal House of Hesse, later becoming a member of the British Royal Family, through his marriage to Princess Beatrice.-Early life:...

| align=center| 5 October
1858
Milan

Milan

Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

, Italy
| align=center| 20 January
1896
, near Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone , officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north and east, Liberia to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and southwest. Sierra Leone covers a total area of and has an estimated population between 5.4 and 6.4...

(West Africa)
|}

Children of Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenberg

{| class="toccolours collapsible collapsed" width="100%;" align="center"
|-
! bgcolor=ccccff|Photograph of Princess Beatrice with her children in 1900.
|-
| Princess Beatrice with children in 1900
{| class="sortable wikitable"
|-
!class="unsortable" width="9%"|Picture
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|-valign="top" bgcolor=f0fcff
|

||Prince Alexander of Battenberg

Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke

Alexander Albert Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke, GCB, GCVO, GJStJ was a member of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the extended British Royal Family, a grandson of Queen Victoria...

,
later Sir Alexander Mountbatten,
first Marquess of Carisbrooke

Marquess of Carisbrooke

The title of Marquess of Carisbrooke was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1917 for Prince Alexander of Battenberg, eldest son of Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom and Prince Henry of Battenberg...

||align=center|
Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle

,
Berkshire

Berkshire

, England||align=center|
Kensington Palace

Kensington Palace

,
London||In 1917, Prince Alexander became Sir Alexander Mountbatten. On 7 November 1917, he was created Marquess of Carisbrooke

Marquess of Carisbrooke

, Earl of Berkhampsted and Viscount Launceston

Viscount Launceston

The peerage title of Viscount Launceston, named for Launceston in Cornwall, has been twice created, each time for an individual connected with the British Royal Family....

.
Married 1917 Lady Irene Denison (1890–1956)
and had issue (1 daughter):
Lady Iris Mountbatten (1920–1982).
|-valign="top" bgcolor=fff8f8
|

||Princess Victoria Eugènie
of Battenberg,
later Queen of Spain||align=center|
Balmoral Castle

Balmoral Castle

Balmoral Castle is a large estate house in Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is located near the village of Crathie, west of Ballater and east of Braemar. Balmoral has been one of the residences of the British Royal Family since 1852, when it was purchased by Queen Victoria and her...

, Aberdeenshire

Aberdeenshire

Aberdeenshire is one of the 32 unitary council areas in Scotland and a lieutenancy area.The present day Aberdeenshire council area does not include the City of Aberdeen, now a separate council area, from which its name derives. Together, the modern council area and the city formed historic...

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

||align=center|
Lausanne

Lausanne

Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west...

, Switzerland||Married in 1906 King Alfonso XIII of Spain
Alfonso XIII of Spain
Alfonso XIII was King of Spain from 1886 until 1931. His mother, Maria Christina of Austria, was appointed regent during his minority...

(1886–1931)
and had issue (5 sons, 2 daughters):
Alfonso, Prince of Asturias (1907–1938),
Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia

Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia

Infante Jaime of Spain, Duke of Segovia, Grandee of Spain , was the second son of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and his wife Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg...

(1908–1975),
Infanta Beatriz

Infanta Beatriz of Spain

The Infanta Beatriz of Spain was a daughter of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg and paternal aunt of the current King Juan Carlos I.-Early life:Infanta Beatriz was born at La Granja, San Ildefonso near...

(1909–2002),
Prince Fernando (stillborn

Stillbirth

1910),
Infanta Maria Cristina

Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain

Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain, Countess of Marone was the fourth child of Alfonso XIII of Spain and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg and paternal aunt of the current King Juan Carlos I.-Early life:Infanta Maria...

(1911–1996),
Don Juan, Count of Barcelona (1913–1993)
— heir-apparent and father of King Juan Carlos I, and
Infante Gonzalo

Infante Gonzalo of Spain

Infante Gonzalo of Spain was the fourth surviving son and youngest child of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and his wife Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg....

(1914–1934)
— a haemophiliac who died from bleeding after a car crash
|-valign="top" bgcolor=f0fcff
| ||Prince Leopold of Battenberg

Lord Leopold Mountbatten

Lord Leopold Mountbatten, GCVO was a descendant of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the British Royal Family, a grandson of Queen Victoria...

,
later Lord Leopold Mountbatten||align=center|
Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle

,
Berkshire

Berkshire

, England||align=center|
Kensington Palace

Kensington Palace

,
London||As with his elder brother, he relinquished his title of Prince of Battenberg and the style His Highness and became Sir Leopold Mountbatten, by virtue of his being a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order

Royal Victorian Order

The Royal Victorian Order is a dynastic order of knighthood and a house order of chivalry recognising distinguished personal service to the order's Sovereign, the reigning monarch of the Commonwealth realms, any members of her family, or any of her viceroys...

. Under a further Royal Warrant in September 1917 he was granted the style and precedence of the younger son of a Marquess, and became Lord Leopold Mountbatten. He suffered from haemophilia

Haemophilia in European royalty

; died unmarried and without issue after a knee operation.
|-valign="top" bgcolor=f0fcff
|

||Prince Maurice of Battenberg
Prince Maurice of Battenberg
Prince Maurice of Battenberg, KCVO, was a member of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the extended British Royal Family, the youngest grandchild of Queen Victoria...

||align=center|
Balmoral Castle

Balmoral Castle

, Aberdeenshire

Aberdeenshire

, Scotland

Scotland

||align=center|
Ypres

Ypres

Ypres is a Belgian municipality located in the Flemish province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Ypres and the villages of Boezinge, Brielen, Dikkebus, Elverdinge, Hollebeke, Sint-Jan, Vlamertinge, Voormezele, Zillebeke, and Zuidschote...

,
Belgium||Killed in action during World War I.
|}

Sources and external links

Paul Theroff's An Online Gotha
Eilers König, Marlene, Queen Victoria's Descendants, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co.
Descendants of Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland, 1840-1945, "European Royalty during World War II" (retrieved 3 January 2010)

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Overview

Ancestors of Victoria and Albert

Marriage of Victoria and Albert

Children of Victoria and Albert

Victoria, the Princess Royal

Children of the Princess Royal and Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia

Edward VII

Children of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra

Princess Alice

Children of Princess Alice and Louis IV of Hesse

Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh

Children of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, and Grand Duchess Marie

Princess Helena

Children of Princess Helena and Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein

Princess Louise

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught

Children of Arthur, Duke of Connaught, and Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia

Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany

Children of Leopold, Duke of Albany, and Princess Helena

Princess Beatrice

Children of Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenberg

See also

Sources and external links