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Queen Victoria's Family Tree Married Divorced QUEEN VICTORIA’S FAMILY TREE Affair Assassinated Legitimate children Twice in chart Illegitimate children King or Queen Albert, Queen Prince Consort Victoria 1819-1861 1819-1901 Topic of a Bax of Things blog Prince Arthur Princess Alice Prince Alfred Princess Helena Princess Louise Duke of Prince Leopold Princess Beatrice of the United Duke of Saxe- of the United Duchess of Argyll Connaught Duke of Albany of the United Vicky EDWARD VII Kingdom Coburg and Gotha Kingdom and Strathearn Kingdom Princess Royal King of the 1843-1878 1844-1900 1846-1923 1848-1939 1853-1884 1857-1944 United Kingdom 1850-1942 1840-1901 1841-1910 Frederick III Ludwig Maria Prince Christian John Campbell Princess Louise Margaret Princess Helena Prince Henry German Emperor Alexandra GD of Hesse Grand Duchess of Russia of Schleswig-Holstein Duke of Argyll of Prussia of Waldeck and Pyrmont of Battenberg of Denmark 1837-1892 1853-1920 1831-1917 1845-1914 1860-1917 1861-1922 1858-1896 1831-1888 1844-1925 Wilhelm II Prince Princess Victoria Alfred, Hereditary Prince Princess Margaret Princess Alice Alexander Mountbatten German Emperor & Prince Christian Victor Albert Victor of Hesse and by Rhine of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha of Connaught of Albany Marquess of Carisbrooke King of Prussia 1867-1900 1864-1892 1863-1950 1874-1899 1882-1920 1883-1981 1886-1960 1859-1941 1) Princess Augusta of Engaged to Prince Louis Gustav VI Adolf Alexander Cambridge Schleswig-Holstein (1858-1821) Marie Albert, Lady Irene Denison Mary of Teck of Battenberg King of Sweden 1st Earl of Athlone 2) Princess Hermine Reuss of Queen of Romania Duke of Schleswig-Holstein 1890-1956 1854-1921 1882-1973 1874-1957 Greiz (1887-1947) 1874-1938 1869-1931 6 sons and 1 daughter George V 2 sons and 2 daughters 4 sons and 1 daughter 2 sons and 1 daughter 1 daughter Ferdinand I King of the United King of Romania Woman of high noble birth Kingdom 1865-1927 Charlotte 1865-1936 Princess Elisabeth Princess Arthur Princes Charles Edward Victoria Eugénie of Battenberg Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen of Hesse and by Rhine of Connaught Duke of Albany Queen of Spain 1860-1919 Mary of Teck 1864-1918 3 sons and 3 daughters 1 daughter 1883-1938 1884-1954 1887-1969 Queen of the United Kingdom Bernhard III Grand Duke Sergei Princess Alexandra Princess Victoria Adelaide Alfonso XIII 1867-1953 Princess Victoria Melita Princess Helena Victoria of Duke of Saxe-Meiningen Alexandrovich of Russia 2nd Duchess of Fife of Schleswig-Holstein King of Spain of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Schleswig-Holstein 1851-1828 1857-1905 1891-1959 1885-1970 1886-1941 5 sons and 1 daughter 1876-1936 1870-1948 1 daughter Louise 1) Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of 1 son 3 sons and 2 daughters 5 sons and 2 daughters Princess Irene Princess Royal Hesse and by Rhine Princess Marie Louise of of Hesse and by Rhine and Duchess of Fife 2) Kirill Vladimirovich, Grand Schleswig-Holstein 1866-1953 Princess Patricia Prince Henry of Prussia 1867-1931 Duke of Russia 1872-1956 Lord Leopold Mountbatten of Connaught 1862-1929 1889-1922 1886-1974 Alexander Duff 1) 1 daughter 2) 2 daughters/1son Prince Henry of Prussia 1st Duke of Fife Prince Aribert of Anhalt 1862-1929 Princess Irene 1849-1912 1866-1933 Sir Alexander Princess Alexandra of Hesse and by Rhine Ramsey Lord Maurice of Battenberg of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 1866-1953 1881-1972 1891-1914 1 son and 2 daughters 3 sons 1878-1942 Princes Harald 3 sons Ernest Ernst II of Schleswig-Holstein 1 son Princess Victoria Grand Duke of Hesse Prince of Hohenlohe- 1876-1876 of the United Kingdom and by Rhine Langenburg 1868-1935 Prince Sigismund 1868-1937 1863-1950 of Prussia 1864-1866 1) Princess Victoria Melita of 2 sons and 3 daughters An unnamed stillborn son Maud of Wales Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 1877 Queen of Norway 2) Princess Eleonore of Solms- Viktoria, Princess 1869-1938 Hohtensolms-Lich Unnamed son – stillborn Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe 1879 1866-1929 1) 1 daughter 2) 2 sons Haakon VII King of Norway 1) Prince Adolf of Schaumburg- 1872-1957 Prince Friedrich Princess Beatrice Lippe (1859-1916) of Hesse and by Rhine of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 2) Alexander Zoubkov 1870-1873 1 son 1884-1966 Prince Waldemar Princess Alix Infante Alfonso Prince Alexander John of Prussia of Hesse and by Rhine Duke of Galliera 1871-1871 1868-1879 1872-1918 1886-1975 Tsar Nicholas II 3 sons Sophia, of Russia Queen of the Hellenes 1868-1918 1870-1932 1 son and 4 daughters Constantine I King of the Hellenes 1868-1923 Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine 3 sons and 3 daughters 1874-1878 Margaret Landgravine of Hessel-Kassel 1872-1954 Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse 1868-1940 6 sons.
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