Descendants of Queen Victoria
, the British monarch from 1837 to 1901 and Prince Albert had these 9 children, 42 grandchildren, and 87 great-grandchildren.
Overview
Victoria and Albert had 20 grandsons and 22 granddaughters, two of whom were stillborn, and two more died shortly after birth. Their first grandchild was the future German Emperor Wilhelm II, who was born to their eldest child, Princess Victoria, on 27 January 1859; the youngest was Prince Maurice of Battenberg, born on 3 October 1891 to Princess Beatrice, who was herself the last child born to Victoria and Albert and the last child to die. The last of Victoria and Albert's grandchildren to die was Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone.Just as Victoria and Albert shared one grandfather and one grandmother, two pairs of their grandchildren married each other. In 1888, Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine, whose mother was Queen Victoria's daughter Alice, married Prince Henry of Prussia, a son of Victoria's daughter Victoria. Another of Alice's children, Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse, married Princess Victoria Melita, a daughter of Alice's brother Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in 1894, but divorced in 1901.
Prince Albert, the Prince Consort, lived long enough to see only one of his children married and two of his grandchildren born, while Queen Victoria lived long enough to see not only all her grandchildren, but many of her 87 great-grandchildren as well.
Victoria, the Princess Royal and first child of Victoria and Albert, known as "Vicky", was not only mother to their first grandchild, Wilhelm II, she was also the first of Victoria and Albert's children to become a grandparent, with the birth in 1879 of Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, who was the daughter of Princess Charlotte. She was also the grandmother of the last of Victoria and Albert's great-granddaughters to die, Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, daughter of Vicky's fourth daughter, Queen Sophia of Greece. After Katherine's death in 2007, the only surviving great-grandchild of Queen Victoria was Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg, born to Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden, daughter of Victoria and Albert's third son, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn.
The death of Count Carl Johan Bernadotte marked the end of a generation of royalty that began in 1879 with the birth of Princess Feodora and included the British Kings Edward VIII and George VI, the Norwegian King Olav V, the Romanian King Carol II and the Greek Kings George II, Alexander and Paul—as well as six uncrowned victims of political assassination, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Tsarevich Alexei of Russia and Alexei's sisters the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia.
Queen Victoria's own death in January 1901 was preceded by the deaths of three of her own children and soon followed by the Princess Royal's death in August 1901. Aside from the four boys who died as infants, Queen Victoria had survived seven of her grandchildren:
- Prince Sigismund of Prussia died of meningitis.
- Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine, a haemophiliac, fell from his mother's bedroom window and bled to death a few hours later.
- Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine died of diphtheria.
- Prince Waldemar of Prussia also died of diphtheria.
- Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale died of influenza.
- Prince Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha shot himself with a revolver and died soon afterward.
- Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein died of malaria while on active service in South Africa during the Boer War.
Victoria, Albert and their children
Ancestors of Victoria and Albert
Victoria and Albert had one pair of grandparents in common, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf, who were parents both of Albert's father Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and of Victoria's mother, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.Duke Francis & Countess Augusta → Duke Ernest I → Prince Albert
Duke Francis & Countess Augusta → Princess Victoria → Queen Victoria
Another of Victoria's grandfathers was King George III, father of Victoria's father, the Duke of Kent, and his brothers King George IV and King William IV.
Marriage of Victoria and Albert
was married to Prince Albert on 10 February 1840 by William Howley, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in the Chapel Royal of St James's Palace in Westminster.Children of Victoria and Albert
Queen Victoria, at times, had contentious relations with her children. She had trouble relating to her children when they were young, some of this possibly owing to her own isolated childhood. She also, occasionally, resented that they interfered with time that she would prefer to spend with Albert. According to one modern author, both Victoria and Albert weren't above playing favourites with their children, and unfortunately did little to hide their favouritism. Both Vicky and Alfred were the favorites of Albert, and Arthur enjoyed the favouritism of both his parents.According to one modern author, Victoria initially was jealous of the time that Albert had spent with Vicky, but in her widowhood Victoria made Vicky something of her confidante, and for her part, Vicky had accrued hundreds of letters from her mother, to the point that shortly before her death, she had them smuggled out of Germany by her brother's secretary, Sir Frederick Ponsonby.
Of her sons, Victoria had the most trouble with her eldest, Albert Edward, and her youngest, Leopold. Among her daughters, Victoria clashed often with Louise. She also had an awkward relationship with her second eldest daughter, Alice, whom the queen, despite praising her thoughtfulness, also criticised as being too melancholy and self-absorbed. In her widowhood, Victoria expected Beatrice, who was only 4 when her father died, to remain at home with her, and only permitted her to marry on the condition that she and her husband remain in England.
| Portrait of Queen Victoria's family in 1846 by Franz Xaver Winterhalter |
| ' Princes Alfred and Albert Edward; The Queen and the Prince Consort; Princesses Alice, Helena and Victoria |
| Name | Birth | Death | Spouse and children | |
| The Princess Victoria, Princess Royal | 21 November 1840 | 5 August 1901 | Married 1858, Prince Frederick of Prussia, later Frederick III, German Emperor and King of Prussia 4 sons, 4 daughters | |
| The Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, later Edward VII | 9 November 1841 | 6 May 1910 | Married 1863, Princess Alexandra of Denmark ; 3 sons, 3 daughters | |
| The Princess Alice | 25 April 1843 | 14 December 1878 | Married 1862, Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine ; 2 sons, 5 daughters | |
| The Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duke of Edinburgh; Admiral of the Fleet | 6 August 1844 | 31 July 1900 | Married 1874, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia ; 2 sons, 4 daughters | |
| The Princess Helena | 25 May 1846 | 9 June 1923 | Married 1866, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg ; 4 sons, 2 daughters | |
| The Princess Louise | 18 March 1848 | 3 December 1939 | Married 1871, John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, later 9th Duke of Argyll and Governor-General of Canada ; no issue | |
| The Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn; Field Marshal, Governor General of Canada | 1 May 1850 | 16 January 1942 | Married 1879, Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia ; 1 son, 2 daughters | |
| The Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany | 7 April 1853 | 28 March 1884 | Married 1882, Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont ; 1 son, 1 daughter | |
| The Princess Beatrice | 14 April 1857 | 26 October 1944 | Married 1885, Prince Henry of Battenberg''' ; 3 sons, 1 daughter |
Children and grandchildren of Victoria and Albert
Victoria, Princess Royal
The eldest child of Victoria and Albert, Princess Victoria, the Princess Royal, called "Vicky". On 25 January 1858 she married Prince Frederick of Prussia. They had eight children and twenty-three grandchildren.Not only was the Princess Royal the first child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, she also gave them their first grandchild and was grandmother to both the first of their 87 great-grandchildren to be born, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, daughter of Princess Charlotte, and to the last of their 29 great-granddaughters to die, Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, daughter of Princess Sophie.
Queen Victoria → Princess Victoria → German Emperor William II → Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia → Princess Frederica of Hanover → King Constantine II
Queen Victoria → Princess Victoria → Princess Sophie of Prussia → King Paul → King Constantine II
Children of the Princess Royal and Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia
The portrait below shows the Princess Royal with her husband Frederick and with Victoria and Albert's first two grandchildren, the future Kaiser Wilhelm II and Princess Charlotte, who were the only grandchildren born during Albert's lifetime.| Portrait of Crown Princess Victoria's family in 1862 by Franz Xaver Winterhalter |
| From left to right: Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, Crown Prince Friedrich and the Princess Royal with Princess Charlotte of Prussia |
| Picture | Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
| Crown Prince Wilhelm, later Wilhelm II, German Emperor and King of Prussia | Berlin, Prussia | Doorn, Netherlands | Reigned from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918 | |
| Crown Prince Wilhelm, later Wilhelm II, German Emperor and King of Prussia | Berlin, Prussia | Doorn, Netherlands | Married 1881, Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg with issue : Crown Prince Wilhelm, Prince Eitel Friedrich, Prince Adalbert, Prince August Wilhelm, Prince Oskar, Prince Joachim and Princess Victoria Louise | |
| Crown Prince Wilhelm, later Wilhelm II, German Emperor and King of Prussia | Berlin, Prussia | Doorn, Netherlands | Married 1922 Princess Hermine Reuss of Greiz, no issue. | |
| Princess Charlotte of Prussia | Potsdam, Prussia | Baden-Baden, German Republic | Married 1878 Bernhard of Saxe-Meiningen,, later Duke Bernhard III, with issue : Princess Feodora, — Queen Victoria's first great-grandchild. Modern medical tests revealed that both Charlotte and her daughter suffered from porphyria, which afflicted their ancestor King George III. | |
| Prince Henry of Prussia | Potsdam, Prussia | Hemmelmark, German Republic | Married 1888 Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine, daughter of his aunt Princess Alice ' and had issue : Prince Waldemar, Prince Sigismund and Prince Heinrich. | |
| Prince Sigismund of Prussia | Potsdam, Prussia | Potsdam, Prussia | Died young from meningitis. | |
| Princess Viktoria of Prussia | Potsdam, Prussia | Bonn, German Republic | Married 1890 Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, no issue | |
| Princess Viktoria of Prussia | Potsdam, Prussia | Bonn, German Republic | Married 1927 Alexander Zoubkoff, no issue. | |
| Prince Waldemar of Prussia | Berlin, Prussia | Potsdam, Prussia | Died young from diphtheria. | |
| Princess Sophie of Prussia, later Queen of the Hellenes | Berlin, Prussia | Frankfurt- am-Main, German Republic | Married 1889 King Constantine I of Greece and had issue : Crown Prince George, later King George II, Prince Alexander, later King Alexander I and father of Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, later Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia Princess Helen, later Queen of Romania and mother of King Michael I of Romania, Prince Paul, later King Paul I and father of King Constantine II of Greece and Queen Sofía of Spain Princess Irene, and Princess Katherine . | |
| Princess Margaret of Prussia | Potsdam, Prussia | Kronberg, West Germany | Married 1893 Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse', later'' elected King of Finland, and had issue : Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince Maximilian, Prince Philipp and Prince Wolfgang , Prince Christoph and Prince Richard . |
Edward VII
Prince Albert Edward, then the Prince of Wales, married Princess Alexandra of Denmark, later Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, on 10 March 1863. They had 3 sons, 3 daughters, 7 grandsons and 3 granddaughters. The Prince of Wales became King Edward VII and Emperor of India at the death of his mother Queen Victoria on 22 January 1901.Edward's and Alexandra's son King George V was the father of Kings Edward VIII and George VI, and the grandfather of the present Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. As the only children of King George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Elizabeth and Margaret were therefore great-granddaughters of Edward VII and great-great-granddaughters of Queen Victoria.
Queen Victoria → King Edward VII → King George V → King George VI → Queen Elizabeth II
Edward's and Alexandra's daughter Princess Maud of Wales became Queen of Norway when her husband, Prince Carl of Denmark, became King Haakon VII upon the dissolution of Norway's union with Sweden in 1905. Their son, and Edward's grandson, became King Olav V ; and Olav's children, King Harald V, Princess Ragnhild and Princess Astrid, are thus great-grandchildren of Edward VII and great-great-grandchildren of Victoria and Albert.
Queen Victoria → King Edward VII → Princess Maud of Wales → King Olav V → King Harald V
Children of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra
| Name | Birth | Death | Notes | |
| Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale | Frogmore House, Windsor, Berkshire | Sandringham House, Norfolk | Created Duke of Clarence and Avondale in 1890; died of influenza just after his 28th birthday. Engaged in 1891 to his cousin Princess Mary of Teck. | |
| Prince George, Prince of Wales, later George V, King of the United Kingdom | Marlborough House, London | Sandringham House, Norfolk | Married 1893 Princess Mary of Teck and had issue. | |
| Princess Louise, Princess Royal | Marlborough House, London | Portman Square, London | Married 1889 Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife and had issue : Alastair Duff, Earl of Macduff, Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife and Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk. | |
| Princess Victoria | Marlborough House, London | Coppins, Buckinghamshire | Died unmarried. | |
| Princess Maud of Wales later Queen of Norway | Marlborough House, London | London | Married 1896 Prince Carl of Denmark, — later King Haakon VII of Norway and had issue : Prince Alexander, — later Crown Prince and King Olav V of Norway father of King Harald V of Norway. | |
| Prince Alexander John of Wales | Sandringham House, Norfolk | Sandringham House, Norfolk | Born prematurely at 2:45 p.m., and died twenty-four hours later. He was christened privately by Reverend W. Lake Onslow in the evening after his birth. The christening was attended by the Prince and Princess of Wales, a lady-in-waiting and a doctor who had been at the birth. |
Princess Alice
Princess Alice married Prince Louis of Hesse, later Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse, on 1 July 1862. They had 2 sons, 5 daughters and 15 grandchildren. Prince Ludwig succeeded to the Grand Duchy of Hesse as Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse, and Princess Alice as the Grand Duchess of Hesse, on 13 July 1877.Alice and Louis's daughter, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, married Prince Louis of Battenberg, and was the mother of Princess Alice of Battenberg, who became Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark when she married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark on 6 October 1903. Princess Alice was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh the current prince consort of the United Kingdom as the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. Princess Victoria was also the mother of Queen Louise of Sweden.
Queen Victoria → Princess Alice → Princess Victoria of Hesse → Princess Alice of Battenberg → Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Alice and Louis's second daughter, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, married, in 1884, the Russian Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, the fifth son of Tsar Alexander II and Empress Maria Alexandrovna, and younger brother of the then reigning Tsar Alexander III. They had no children. Following Sergei's assassination in 1905, she eventually became a nun and was killed by the Bolsheviks on 18 July 1918. She was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia in 1981 and in 1992 by the Moscow Patriarchate.
Prince Ernest Louis became Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse upon his father's death in 1892. He married his first cousin, Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1894 and had one daughter, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse who died of typhoid fever, aged eight. The couple were divorced 21 December 1901. The Grand Duke married for a second time to Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich, and had two sons: Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse who married Princess Cecilie of Greece, a sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and had issue, and Prince Louis of Hesse and by Rhine.
Princess Alix of Hesse, the youngest surviving child of the Grand Ducal pair, became the Last Empress of All the Russias through her marriage to Nicholas II of Russia in 1894. They had 5 children, 4 girls, the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia, and one boy, the Tsarevich Alexei, who was a haemophiliac. The Russian Imperial Family was executed on 17 July 1918 by a detachment of Bolsheviks in the basement of Ipatiev House. The entire family was canonized by the Russian Orthodox church in 2000.
Queen Victoria → Princess Alice → Princess Alix of Hesse
Children of Princess Alice and Louis IV of Hesse
| Photograph of Princess Alice's family in 1876 |
| From left to right : Princess Elisabeth, the Grand Duke, Princess Marie, Princess Alix, the Grand Duchess and Princess Victoria. Seated: Prince Ernest and Princess Irene |
| Picture | Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
| Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine | Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England | Kensington Palace, London, England | Married 1884 Prince Louis of Battenberg, Admiral of the Fleet, First Sea Lord , and had issue : Princess Alice, later Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark, and mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Princess Louise, later Louise Mountbatten, Queen of Sweden and stepmother of Queen Ingrid of Denmark Prince George, later George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven and Prince Louis, later Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Admiral of the Fleet, last Viceroy of India & First Sea Lord | |
| Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine | Bessungen, Hesse, Germany | Alapaevsk, Russia | Married 1885 Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, no issue. | |
| Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine | Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany | Hemmelmark, Germany | Married 1888 Prince Henry, son of her aunt Victoria, the British Princess Royal & German Empress ', and had issue : Prince Waldemar of Prussia, Prince Sigismund of Prussia and Prince Henry of Prussia. | |
| Ernest Louis, later Grand Duke of Hesse | Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany | Langen, Germany | Succeeded as head of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1892. | |
| Ernest Louis, later Grand Duke of Hesse | Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany | Langen, Germany | Married 1894 Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, daughter of his uncle Prince Alfred ', and had issue : Princess Elisabeth and an unnamed stillborn son ; ¶ the marriage ended in divorce in 1901. | |
| Ernest Louis, later Grand Duke of Hesse | Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany | Langen, Germany | Married 1905 Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich and had issue : Hereditary Grand Duke Georg Donatus and Prince Louis. | |
| Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine | Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany | Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany | Suffered from haemophilia and died from a brain haemorrhage after falling from a window. | |
| Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, later Empress Alexandra of All the Russias | Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany | Ekaterinburg, Russia | Married 1894 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, taking the name Alexandra Feodorovna, and had issue : Grand Duchess Olga, Grand Duchess Tatiana, Grand Duchess Maria, Grand Duchess Anastasia, Tsarevich Alexei. ¶ The entire family was killed in July 1918 in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution, as was Alexandra's sister, the Grand Duchess Elisabeth. | |
| Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine | Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany | Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany | Died young from diphtheria. |
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Prince Alfred married the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, the only surviving daughter of Tsar Alexander II and his first wife, Empress Marie Alexandrovna, on 23 January 1874 at the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, Russia. They had 2 sons, 4 daughters, 10 grandsons and 9 granddaughters. In June 1893, Prince Alfred achieved the Royal Navy rank of Admiral of the Fleet, shortly before succeeding his uncle, Ernest II, as Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in August 1893.Prince Alfred's daughter Princess Marie of Edinburgh became Queen of Romania in 1914 after marrying the future King Ferdinand in 1893.
- King Ferdinand's and Queen Marie's son King Carol II of Romania was father to King Michael of Romania ;
- their daughter Princess Elisabeth was married from 1921 to 1935 to King George II of Greece ; and
- their daughter Princess Maria was married to King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and the mother of King Peter II
Queen Victoria → Prince Alfred → Princess Marie of Edinburgh → Princess Elisabeth of Romania
Queen Victoria → Prince Alfred → Princess Marie of Edinburgh → Princess Marie of Romania → King Peter II
Children of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, and Grand Duchess Marie
| Picture | Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
| Prince Alfred, later Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Buckingham Palace, London | Martinnsbrunn Sanatorium, Gratsch, Merano, Austria | Rumoured, but never proven to have married in 1898 Mabel Fitzgerald. ¶ Alfred suffered from nervous depression and possibly syphilis. He supposedly attempted suicide by shooting himself with a revolver, and was sent to recover at Schloss Friedenstein in Gotha, Germany, before being moved, while still badly wounded, to the Martinnsbrunn Sanatorium in Gratsch near Merano in the South Tyrol, where he died; however, this rumor is unproven. | |
| Princess Marie of Edinburgh, later Queen of Romania | Eastwell Park, Kent | Sinaia, Romania | Married 1893 Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince of Romania, — later King Ferdinand I, and had issue : Crown Prince Carol, later King Carol II, father of King Michael, Princess Elisabeta, later Queen of Greece, Princess Marie, later Queen of Yugoslavia and mother of King Peter II of Yugoslavia, Prince Nicholas, Princess Ileana, and Prince Mircea. | |
| Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha later Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna of Russia | San Antonio Palace, Malta | Amorbach, Bavaria, Germany | Married 1894 her paternal first cousin, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, the son of her aunt Princess Alice ', and had issue : Princess Elisabeth and an unnamed stillborn son. ¶ The marriage ended in divorce in 1901. | |
| Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha later Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna of Russia | San Antonio Palace, Malta | Amorbach, Bavaria, Germany | Married 1905, her maternal first cousin, Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich of Russia , and had issue : Princess Maria Kirillovna, Princess Kira Kirillovna, and Prince Vladimir Kirillovich. | |
| Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Rosenau Castle, Coburg, Germany | Schwäbisch Hall, Germany | Married 1896 Prince Ernest II of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and had issue : Prince Gottfried, Princess Marie-Melita, Princess Alexandra Beatrice, Princess Irma, and Prince Alfred ¶ The senior Princess Alexandra joined the National Socialist German Workers Party in 1937. | |
| Stillborn son | Eastwell Park, Kent, England | Eastwell Park, Kent, England | Died at birth. | |
| Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Eastwell Park, Kent, England | Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain | Married 1909 Prince Alfonso de Orléans y Borbón,' Duke of Galliera, Spanish Air Force chief of staff, and had issue : Prince Álvaro de Orléans, later'' Duke of Galliera, Prince Alonso de Orléans and Prince Ataúlfo de Orleans. |
Princess Helena
Princess Helena married Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein in Windsor Castle's private chapel on 5 July 1866. Two sons and two daughters survived childhood; two other sons died within ten days of their birth. Princess Helena and Prince Christian had no legitimate grandchildren and one natural granddaughter who died without having issue of her own. Like other British royal holders of German titles, Princess Helena, Prince Christian, and their two daughters gave up their titles to Schleswig-Holstein in 1917 when the British and German Empires were at war.Children of Princess Helena and Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
| Picture | Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
| Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein | Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England | Pretoria, South Africa | Christian Victor died of malaria while serving as a British officer on active duty in the Boer War. | |
| Prince Albert, later Duke of Schleswig-Holstein | Frogmore House, Windsor, Berkshire | Berlin, Germany | Succeeded as head of the House of Oldenburg in 1921. Never married, but had a twice-married and childless natural daughter, Valerie Marie zu Schleswig-Holstein , | |
| Princess Helena Victoria, until 1917: Princess of Schleswig-Holstein | Frogmore House, Windsor, Berkshire | Berkeley Square, London, England | Died unmarried. | |
| Princess Marie Louise, until 1917: Princess of Schleswig-Holstein | Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, Berkshire | Berkeley Square, London, England | Married 1891 to Prince Aribert of Anhalt ; no issue; marriage was dissolved in 1900. | |
| Prince Harald of Schleswig-Holstein | Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, Berkshire | Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, Berkshire | Died in infancy. | |
| Stillborn son | Died at birth. |
Princess Louise
Princess Louise, who married John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll in 1871, was the only one of Victoria's nine children who was childless. She was the first British monarch's child since 1515 to marry a subject rather than someone of royal blood.Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
Prince Arthur married Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia on 13 March 1879 at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle. They had 2 daughters and 1 son.In March 1911, the Duke of Connaught's nephew, King George V appointed his uncle to represent him as Governor General of Canada. He thus became the first, and so far only, Governor General of Canada to be of the Blood Royal, although he had been preceded in this office from 1878 to 1883 by the Marquess of Lorne, the non-royal husband of his sister Princess Louise.
Prince Arthur's elder daughter Princess Margaret of Connaught became Crown Princess of Sweden in 1907 after marrying the future King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden in 1905.
- Princess Margaret and Prince Gustav Adolf's grandson King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden is the current monarch of Sweden having reigned from 1973. He is the youngest and only son of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten.
- Their only daughter Princess Ingrid of Sweden married King Frederick IX of Denmark and was the mother of the present Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and the former Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, great-great-granddaughters of Queen Victoria.
- Their youngest son, Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg, was the last great-grandchild of Victoria and Albert to die
Queen Victoria → Prince Arthur → Princess Margaret of Connaught → Princess Ingrid of Sweden → Danish Queen Margrethe II & Greek Queen Anne-Marie
Queen Victoria → Prince Arthur → Princess Margaret of Connaught → Count Carl Johan Bernadotte
Children of Arthur, Duke of Connaught, and Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia
| Photograph of the Duke of Connaught's family |
| From left to right : Prince Arthur, Princess Patricia and the Duchess of Connaught. Standing: Princess Margaret and the Duke of Connaught. |
| Picture | Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
| Princess Margaret of Connaught later Crown Princess of Sweden | Bagshot Park, Surrey | Stockholm, Sweden | Married 1905 Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden — later King Gustav VI and had issue : Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten — father of King Carl XVI Gustaf, Prince Sigvard, Duke of Uppland, — later Count Sigvard Bernadotte of Wisborg Princess Ingrid, later Queen of Denmark, mother of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, and mother of Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, and Prince Carl Johan, Duke of Dalarna, — later Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg and, after 2007, the last surviving great-grandchild of Queen Victoria. Princess Margaret died suddenly on her father's 70th birthday of meningitis while 8 months pregnant with her sixth child before her husband ascended the throne as King of Sweden. | |
| Prince Arthur of Connaught, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa | Windsor Castle, Berkshire | London, England | Married 1913 Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife, granddaughter of King Edward VII and thus Arthur's first cousin once removed, having issue : Prince Alastair, later 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn. ¶ Prince Arthur became the third Governor General of South Africa in November 1920, and was succeeded in January 1924 by Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, husband of his cousin, Princess Alice of Albany '. | |
| Princess Patricia of Connaught later Lady Patricia Ramsay | Buckingham Palace, Westminster | Windlesham, Surrey | Married 1919 the Honourable Alexander Ramsay''' and had issue : Alexander Ramsay of Mar. ¶ Princess Patricia relinquished her title of Princess and style of Her Royal Highness upon her marriage and was known as Lady Patricia Ramsay. |
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
Prince Leopold married Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont on 27 April 1882 at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. They had 1 daughter and 1 son. He inherited the disease of haemophilia from his mother, Queen Victoria, and spent most of his life as a semi-invalid.His daughter, Princess Alice of Albany married Prince Alexander of Teck, the younger brother of Queen Mary, in 1904 and became Countess of Athlone when her husband was created Earl of Athlone in June 1917. She has so far been the longest-lived Princess of the Blood Royal of Britain and was the last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria.
Prince Charles Edward, Prince Leopold's posthumous son, succeeded him at birth as 2nd Duke of Albany. In 1900, Charles Edward succeeded his uncle Alfred as Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha but was forced to abdicate his ducal throne during the German Revolution of 1918, later gaining high positions in and through the Nazi movement. Because of his support for Germany in World War I, he lost his English knighthood in the Order of the Garter in 1915 and his British royal titles, peerages and honours in 1919. He is the grandfather of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden through his elder daughter, Princess Sibylla.
Queen Victoria → Prince Leopold → Prince Charles Edward → Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha → King Carl XVI Gustaf
Children of Leopold, Duke of Albany, and Princess Helena
| Picture | Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
| Princess Alice of Albany later Countess of Athlone | Windsor Castle, Berkshire | Kensington Palace, London | Married 1904 Prince Alexander of Teck, later Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, Governor-General of South Africa and Canada and had issue : Princess May, Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice | |
| Prince Charles Edward, Duke of Albany, later Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Claremont House, Surrey | Coburg, Germany | Married 1905 Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein and had issue : Hereditary Prince Johann Leopold, Princess Sibylla, later a Swedish princess and mother of King Carl XVI Gustaf Prince Hubertus, Princess Caroline Mathilde, and Prince Friedrich Josias. ¶ Last Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 1900–1918. Deprived of Duchy of Albany, 1919. Joined 1935 the National Socialist German Workers Party and SA . Member of the German Reichstag, 1937–1945. |
Princess Beatrice
Princess Beatrice married Prince Henry of Battenberg on 23 July 1885 in St. Mildred's Church, Whippingham on the Isle of Wight. They had 3 sons, 1 daughter, 5 grandsons and 3 granddaughters. The present King Felipe VI of Spain, as a great-grandson of Victoria Eugenie, is a great-great-grandson of Princess Beatrice and thus a great-great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria.Queen Victoria → Princess Beatrice → Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg → Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona → King Juan Carlos I → King Felipe VI
Due to anti-German feeling during the First World War, the members of the Battenberg family who were British citizens relinquished their titles of Prince and Princess of Battenberg and the styles of Highness and Serene Highness. Under Royal Warrant, they instead took the surname Mountbatten, an Anglicised form of Battenberg.
Children of Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenberg
| Photograph of Princess Beatrice with her children in 1900 |
| From left to right : Prince Maurice, Beatrice and Prince Leopold. Seated: Princess Victoria Eugenie and Prince Alexander |
| Picture | Name | Birth | Death | Notes |
| Prince Alexander of Battenberg, later Sir Alexander Mountbatten, first Marquess of Carisbrooke | Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England | Kensington Palace, London | In 1917, Prince Alexander became Sir Alexander Mountbatten. On 7 November 1917, he was created Marquess of Carisbrooke, Earl of Berkhampsted and Viscount Launceston. Married 1917 Lady Irene Denison and had issue : Lady Iris Mountbatten. | |
| Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, later Queen of Spain | Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire Scotland | Lausanne, Switzerland | Married in 1906 King Alfonso XIII of Spain and had issue : Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia, Infanta Beatriz, Infante Fernando, Infanta Maria Cristina, Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona — heir-apparent and father of King Juan Carlos I, and Infante Gonzalo — a haemophiliac who died from bleeding after a car crash | |
| Prince Leopold of Battenberg, later Lord Leopold Mountbatten | Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England | Kensington Palace, London | As with his elder brother, he relinquished his title of Prince of Battenberg and the style His Highness and became Sir Leopold Mountbatten, by virtue of his being a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order. Under a further Royal Warrant in September 1917 he was granted the style and precedence of the younger son of a Marquess, and became Lord Leopold Mountbatten. He suffered from haemophilia; died unmarried and without issue after a knee operation. | |
| Prince Maurice of Battenberg | Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland | Zonnebeke, Flanders, Belgium | Killed in action during World War I. He was the last grandchild of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. |