Descendants of Queen Victoria
I first got interested in royalty about 27 years ago when I read "Jennie," the biography of Winston Churchill's mother. In that book I met Edward VII and his family. Shortly thereafter, I started figuring just which royals were related to each other. Needless to say, they are all related. I thought a thread about Queen Victoria's descendants would fit in nicely here.
I'm looking forward to questions, answers, and discussions on this topic. :) |
Queen Victoria- The Grandmother of Europe.
Its amazing to see how this one woman contributed to so many countries and to so many families. She has always fascinated me. |
Victoria has fascinated me as well.
If you can...you should check out the book Victoria's Daughter's. The book discusses the relationship that Victoria has with her daughters. Of course, her sons also made great marriages (ie. Edward with Alexandra of Denmark) but from her daughters we get the Kaiser, and Princess Alice (Prince Phillip's grandmother). |
I have that book somewhere in my piles of books :D
Its been a while since I've read it. I would love to explore Victoria's relationship with the last Kaiser (Victoria's grandson). Victoria's descendants have married into all Royal Houses in Europe haven't they? |
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Current ruling houses Denmark: Victoria - Arthur - Margaret - Ingrid - Margrethe II Norway: Victoria - Edward VII - Maud - Olav V - Harald V Spain: Victoria - Beatrice - Ena - Juan - Juan Carlos Sweden: Victoria - Arthur - Margaret - Gustaf Adolf - Carl XVI Gustaf United Kingdom: Victoria - Edward VII - George V - George VI - Elizabeth II Some former ruling houses Greece: Victoria - Victoria - Sophie - Paul I - Constantine II Rumania: Victoria - Alfred - Marie - Carol II - Michael Yugoslavia: Victoria - Alfred - Marie - Maria - Peter II - Alexander |
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This is a great list of books about Queen Victoria and her family. Many are out of print but I have been able to find some on eBay. Books about Queen Victoria, her family and her descendants http://users.uniserve.com/~canyon/royalty_books.htm |
The books Born to Rule, Queen Victoria's Family, Queen Victoria's Descendants, Victoria's daughters have all been discussed in The Royal Library here at TRF, if anybody wants to check out what other people thought about them, or contribute to the threads ;)
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Isn't there a Luxembourg branch (even though this branch isn't reigning) that is related to Queen Victoria through Sibilla Weiller?
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Luxembourg
Victoria-Beatrice-Victoria (Ena)-(Infanta)Beatrix-Olimpia-Sibilla I realize the next three aren't Queen Victoria Descedants but.....I had a wee bit of fun figuring all this out. Belgium Frans-Frederick- Leopold I - Leopold II - Albert I- Leopold III - Baudouin (brother) Albert Frans Frederick - Victoria - Queen Victoria- Edward VII - George V- Geroge VI - Elizabeth II Monaco Ludwig-Amile-Karl-Marie-Mary-Louis-Charlotte-Rainier III-Albert II Ludwig-Louis I -Louis II -Louis III-Louis VI (Married Alice, Queen Victoria daughter) Ludwig-Louis I -Louis II -Alexander-Louis-Alice- Philip (Duke of Edinburgh) there is another angle I worked out that connects Monaco through Queen Victoria's husband Albert but I forgot a step somewhere. It all relates back to Ludwig who was a Prince of Baden so I am sure you can connect them in many different ways. The Netherlands Georg-Emma-Wihelmina-Juliana-Beatrix Georg-Helen (married Victoria's son Leopold)-Carl-Sibylla-Carl Gustav (Sweden) |
I love this Lady for many years.
Intermarrieges of Queen's descendants http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_ray...rmarriages.htm Few statistics http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_ray...Statistics.htm Descendants by Leo van de Pas http://worldroots.com/brigitte/royal/royal8d.htm and descendants to the 7th generation - http://geneweb.inria.fr/roglo?lang=e...t=L&bd=0&color= |
Here is a link that I just found.
I haven't really explored the site yet, but from what I've seen of it it looks like the author of the site has done a lot of work. It also shows who the eldest living descendants are for each generation. |
Belgium
Aren't the current Belgian & Luxembourg royals descended from Victoria through Queen Ingrid? |
Belgians & Badens, Saxe-Coburgs & Swedes, and others
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Princess Astrid (later Queen of the Belgians) and her sister Martha (later Queen of Norway) were the daughters of Prince Carl of Sweden (a son of King Oscar II and Princess Sophie of Nassau) and Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (daughter of Frederik VIII and Louise of Sweden). K Oscar II of Sweden - Gustaf V - Gustaf VI Adolf - Ingrid K Oscar II of Sweden - Carl - Martha & Astrid Quote:
There is a Saxe-Coburg connection with Baden (Princess Alexandrine of Baden married Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha who was Prince Albert's elder brother) but I can't see a link between S-C&G and Monaco. Alexandrine was the daughter of Grand Duke Leopold and Sophie of Sweden; Leopold was the son of Karl Friedrich, the first Grand Duke of Baden, by his second marriage, while Grand Duke Karl was the grandson of Karl Friedrich by his first marriage, so the connection is tenuous: GD Karl Friedrich of Baden (1st m) - Karl - GD Karl - Marie - Mary - Louis of Monaco GD Karl Friedrich of Baden (2nd m) - GD Leopold - Alexandrine (married to Ernest Saxe-Coburg) [no children]. |
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Of course they are related one generation further back through Victorias' beloved Uncle Leopold. |
Saxe-Coburgs
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Prince Leopold, 1st King of the Belgians and Prince Albert's father Duke Ernst I of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha were brothers, so the common ancestors in this line of descent are their parents: Franz, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1750-1806) and Countess Auguste of Reuss-Lobenstein und Ebersdorf (1757-1831). Descendents other than those of Queen Victoria include the monarchs and de juré monarchs of Belgium, Bulgaria, France (Bonaparte), Italy and Luxembourg. |
It's very interesting, that even our Swedish royal house are descendants of Queen Victoria through King Carl XVI Gustaf's Brittish grandmother Margareth of Connaught. Even though I knew, that Margareth was Brittish, it wasn't until last year, that I realised, that she was Victoria's granddaughter. Margareth was also the one to bring Victoria's blood to Denmark and Greece. Margareth's daughter Ingrid got married to King Frederik IX of Denmark, and through her daughter Margarete, that blood stayed in the Danish royal family, and through her daughter Anne-Marie, it also came to the Greek royal family. Whoops! I just saw, that Victoria's blood already WAS in the Greek royal family before Anne-Marie of Denmark. But let's say then, that the Greek ex-princes and ex-princesses are descendants to Victoria in two different ways. And Anne-Marie had to be mentioned in this thread too.
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Of course the next, and future generations of the UK will have two lines of descent Victoria - Alice (2nd daughter) - Victoria (Alice's eldest daugher who married Louis of Battenburg) - Alice (Victoria's eldest daughter who married Prince Andrew of Greece) - Philip (the Duke of Edinburgh) - Charles(?) - William(?). The ? are because that is the future and who knows what the future will bring. |
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