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Victoria granted him the title Prince Consort in 1857. Albert was born in the Saxon duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld to a family connected to many of Europe's ruling monarchs. At the age of 20, he married Victoria, his first cousin, with whom he had nine children.
Victoria married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in 1840. Their nine children married into royal and noble families across the continent, earning Victoria the sobriquet " grandmother of Europe ".
In 1888, Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine, whose mother was Queen Victoria's daughter Alice, married Prince Henry of Prussia, son of Victoria's daughter Victoria. Another of Alice's children, Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse , married Princess Victoria Melita , daughter of Alice's brother Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , in 1894, but ...
Queen Victoria was known as the grandmother of Europe for a reason. ... making the monarchs second cousins. Harald V's grandmother, Maud, was the youngest daughter of Edward VII and became Queen ...
Painting by William Powell Frith depicting the marriage of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), Queen Victoria's son, with Princess Alexandra of Denmark, King Christian IX's daughter. The royal descendants of Queen Victoria (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901; r. 1837–1901) and of King Christian IX (8 April 1818 – 29 January 1906; r.
Francis, Duke of Teck (Francis Paul Charles Louis Alexander; 28 August 1837 – 21 January 1900), known as Count Francis von Hohenstein until 1863, was an Austrian-born nobleman who married into the British royal family. His wife, Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, was a first cousin of Queen Victoria.
He later married his cousin Princess Caroline of Brunswick. The couple had a daughter, Princess Charlotte of Wales, who died in childbirth in 1817. ... He married Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg ...
She later married his cousin Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Ernest was also considered by Dowager Queen Maria Christina as a possible husband for her young daughter Isabella II of Spain, [25] and by Queen Victoria for her cousin Princess Augusta of Cambridge. [26]