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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]
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 .
Descendants of George V; List of coupled cousins; Descendants of Christian IX of Denmark, describes progeny of one of Queen Victoria's contemporaries Royal descendants of Queen Victoria and of King Christian IX; John William Friso, the most recent ancestor of all sovereigns of currently existing hereditary European monarchies until 2022
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.
1886 portrait of Christian IX and his family by Laurits Tuxen. King Christian IX of Denmark (April 8, 1818 – January 29, 1906), known as the "father-in-law of Europe", [1] ruled Denmark from 1863 to 1906.
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Countess Augusta was the grandmother of many notable monarchs of Europe, including both Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (through her mother Victoria) and her husband, Prince Albert (through his father Ernst), King Consort of Portugal Ferdinand II (through his father Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha), and also Empress Carlota of ...
In European genealogy, a descent from antiquity (DFA or DfA) is a proven unbroken line of descent between specific individuals from ancient history and people living today. . Ancestry can readily be traced back to the Early Middle Ages, but beyond that, insufficient documentation of the ancestry of the new royal and noble families of the period makes tracing them to historical figures from ...