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Prince Albert, the Prince Consort (26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861), lived long enough to see only one of his children married (Victoria, the Princess Royal) and two of his grandchildren born (Wilhelm II, 1859–1941, and his sister Princess Charlotte of Prussia, 1860–1919), while Queen Victoria (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) lived ...
Queen Victoria's very first grandchild Wilhelm II, also known as Kaiser Wilhelm, also became the first of her descendants to lose his throne when he abdicated in November of 1918, just days before ...
Potts, D. M. Queen Victoria's Gene. Sutton Publishing, 1999. ISBN 0-7509-1199-9. "Hemophilia: The Royal Disease" Yelena Aronova-Tiuntseva and Clyde Freeman Herreid; Family tree of Queen Victoria and her descendants; Haemophilia in Queen Victoria's Descendants. Archived 2006-11-18 at the Wayback Machine; Victor A. McKusick (August 1965). "The ...
The King of Denmark, Frederik X, is the son of Queen Margrethe II. [25] Margrethe II is a descendant of both Victoria [g] and Christian. [h] The King of the United Kingdom, Charles III, is a son of Queen Elizabeth II. [29] Elizabeth II is a descendant of both Victoria [i] and Christian. [j]
Prince Wilhelm was the oldest of the 42 grandchildren of his maternal grandparents (Queen Victoria and Prince Albert). Upon the death of Frederick William IV in January 1861, Wilhelm's namesake grandfather became king, and the two-year-old Wilhelm became second in the line of succession to the Prussian throne.
Victoria's eldest daughter became empress consort of Germany in 1888, but she was widowed a little over three months later, and Victoria's eldest grandchild became German Emperor as Wilhelm II. Victoria and Albert's hopes of a liberal Germany would go unfulfilled, as Wilhelm was a firm believer in autocracy .
Margaret of Prussia (German: Margarethe Beatrice Feodora; 22 April 1872 – 22 January 1954) was the youngest child of Frederick III, German Emperor, and Victoria, Princess Royal. She was also the younger sister of Emperor Wilhelm II and the granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
Queen Victoria in Coburg in April 1894 reunited with all her extended family, ranging from Nicholas II (soon-to-be tsar of Russia in the same year) to the Kaiser Wilhelm II and other relatives of the House. (click to view the photo on Commons and read about every person in detail)