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Queen Victoria, the British monarch from 1837 to 1901, and Prince Albert (her husband from 1840 until his death in 1861) had 9 children, 42 grandchildren, and 87 great-grandchildren. Victoria was called the " grandmother of Europe ".
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.
Children of Queen Victoria. Pages in category "Children of Queen Victoria" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Queen Victoria was known as the grandmother of Europe for a reason. Here are all her descendants who are still the kings and queens of the continent.
By 1836, Victoria's maternal uncle Leopold, who had been King of the Belgians since 1831, hoped to marry her to Prince Albert, [23] the son of his brother Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Leopold arranged for Victoria's mother to invite her Coburg relatives to visit her in May 1836, with the purpose of introducing Victoria to Albert. [24]
Beatrice (1857–1944), Victoria's ninth and last child, and wife of Prince Henry of Battenberg (1858–1896) passed it on to at least two, if not three, of her four children: Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887–1969), later Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain through her marriage to King Alfonso XIII (1886–1940), who passed it on to:
The Queen overtook Queen Victoria’s record on September 9 2015 to become the nation’s longest-reigning monarch. 64. The Queen became the first monarch to celebrate her Sapphire Jubilee in 2017 ...
She was the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Alice was the first of Queen Victoria's nine children to die, and one of three to predecease their mother, who died in 1901. Her life had been enwrapped in tragedy since her father's death in 1861.