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She earned the nickname because her descendants included royalty in England, France, Denmark, Castile, and Sicily, among other kingdoms. [ 1 ] Éléonore Desmier d'Olbreuse (1639–1722) was the wife of George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg , and the maternal grandmother of George II of Great Britain .
The Grandmother chord is an eleven-interval, twelve-note, invertible chord with all of the properties of the Mother chord. Additionally, the intervals are so arranged that they alternate odd and even intervals (counted by semitones) and that the odd intervals successively decrease by one whole-tone while the even intervals successively increase by one whole-tone. [13]
1863–1906), monarchs of the United Kingdom and Denmark, respectively, have become members of multiple European royal families. This was partially achieved by the marriage of Victoria's progeny with Christian's (and vice versa). By the time of her Diamond Jubilee in 1897, Victoria was known as the "grandmother of Europe". [1]
The most obvious of Queen Victoria's descendants is, naturally, the current queen of England. Directly descended from Edward VII, Queen Elizabeth is Victoria's great-great granddaughter.
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Married 1922 (2), Admiral Perikles Ioannidis (1881–1965) and had no children [20] Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark April 7, 1880 [11] November 2, 1880 [11] Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark: February 2, 1882 [11] December 3, 1944 [11] Married 1903, Princess Alice of Battenberg (1885–1969) and had 5 children: [82]
King Christian IX with his large family gathered at Fredensborg Palace, painting by Laurits Tuxen from 1883 to 1886 . The father-in-law of Europe is a sobriquet which has been used to refer to two European monarchs of the late 19th and early 20th century: Christian IX of Denmark and Nicholas I of Montenegro, both on account of their children's marriages to foreign princes and princesses.
Among the living descendants of Isabella I and Ferdinand II are all of the current European monarchs from hereditary monarchies (i.e. not Andorra and Vatican City). Felipe VI of Spain and Henri of Luxembourg are both descended in the male line from Philip V of Spain , whose grandmother Maria Theresa of Spain was a male-line descendant of ...