Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their nine children in 1857; Photo Credit – Wikipedia
QUEEN VICTORIA OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (1819-1901) MARRIED (1840) PRINCE ALBERT OF SAXE-COBURG AND GOTHA (1819-1861)
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had nine children and 42 grandchildren. Their grandchildren sat upon the thrones of Germany/Prussia, Greece, Norway, Romania, Russia, Spain, and the United Kingdom as monarchs or consorts. Today Victoria and Albert’s descendants include the monarchs of Denmark, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
The links on the names below are links to an article about that person here at Unofficial Royalty. The links on “had issue” are links to the listing of the issue from Wikipedia. The “had issue” are, of course, Queen Victoria’s great-grandchildren.
- Unofficial Royalty: Bibliography of Royal Biographies: Queen Victoria and Family
- Unofficial Royalty: Hemophilia in Queen Victoria’s Family
- History and Traditions: Weddings of Queen Victoria and Her Children
- Unofficial Royalty: Queen Victoria’s Great-Grandchildren
- Unofficial Royalty: Queen Victoria’s Great-Great-Grandchildren
- Unofficial Royalty: Christenings of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Their Children, and Select Grandchildren
1) Victoria, Princess Royal (1840-1901) married (1858) Friedrich III, German Emperor and King of Prussia (1831-1888)
Prussian Family; Photo Credit – Wikipedia
- Wilhelm II, German Emperor and King of Prussia (1859-1941) married (1) (1881) Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1858-1921), had issue, Greek and Spanish Royal Families descend from this marriage; married (2) (1922) Princess Hermine of Reuss (1887-1947), no issue
- Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1860-1919) married (1878) Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1851-1928), had issue
- Prince Heinrich of Prussia (1862-1929) married (1888) Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (1866-1953), a grandchild of Queen Victoria, had issue
- Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1864-1866), died young from meningitis
- Princess Viktoria of Prussia (1866-1929), married (1) (1890) Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe (1859-1917), no issue; married (2) (1927) Alexander Zoubkoff (1901-1936), no issue
- Prince Waldemar of Prussia (1868-1879), died young from diphtheria
- Princess Sophie of Prussia (1870-1932), married (1889) King Constantine I of Greece (1868-1923), had issue, Greek, Romanian, Serbian, and Spanish Royal Families descend from this marriage
- Princess Margarete of Prussia (1872-1954), (1893) married Prince Friedrich Karl of Hesse (1868-1940), had issue
2) King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (1841-1910) married (1863) Princess Alexandra of Denmark (1844-1925)
- Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence (1864-1892), died unmarried from influenza at age 28
- King George V of the United Kingdom (1865-1936), married (1893) Princess Victoria Mary of Teck (1867-1953), had issue, British Royal Family descends from this marriage
- Louise, Princess Royal (1867-1931), married (1889) Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife (1849-1912), had issue
- Princess Victoria (1868-1935), died unmarried
- Princess Maud (1869-1938), married (1896) King Haakon VII of Norway (1872-1957), had issue, Norwegian Royal Family descends from this marriage
- Prince Alexander John Charles Albert (1871), born prematurely, died the next day
3) Princess Alice (1843-1878) married (1862) Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (1837-1892)
Hesse and by Rhine family in 1876; Photo Credit – Wikipedia
- Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (1863-1950), married (1884) Prince Louis of Battenberg (1854-1921) after 1917 Louis Mountbatten 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, had issue, British Royal Family (line of King Charles III of the United KIngdom) descends from this marriage
- Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1864-1918), married (1885) Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (1857-1905), no issue
- Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (1866-1953), married (1888) Prince Heinrich of Prussia (1862-1929), a grandchild of Queen Victoria, had issue
- Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (1868-1937), married (1) (1894) Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh (1876-1936), a grandchild of Queen Victoria, had issue, divorced 1901; married (2) (1905) Princess Eleanore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich (1871-1937), had issue
- Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (1870-1873), was a hemophiliac, died young from a brain hemorrhage after falling out a window
- Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine (1872-1918), married (1894) Nicholas II, Emperor of All Russia (1868-1918), had issue (all died 1918)
- Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (1874-1878), died young from diphtheria
4) Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844-1900) married (1874) Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia (1853-1920)
Duchess of Edinburgh with her children; Photo Credit – Wikipedia
- Prince Alfred of Edinburgh, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874-1899), died unmarried, attempted suicide by shooting himself, later died from the injuries
- Princess Marie of Edinburgh (1875-1938), married (1893) King Ferdinand of Romania (1865-1927), had issue, Romanian and Serbian Royal Families descend from this marriage
- Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh (1876-1936), married (1) (1894) Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (1862-1937), a grandchild of Queen Victoria, had issue, divorced 1901; married (2) (1905) Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia (1876-1938), had issue
- Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh (1878-1942), married (1896) Prince Ernst II of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1863-1950); had issue
- Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh (1884-1966), married (1909) Infante Alfonso of Spain, Duke of Galliera (1886-1975), had issue
5) Princess Helena (1846-1923) married (1866) Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (1831-1917)
Photo Credit – royal-splendor.blogspot.com
- Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein (1867-1900), died unmarried of malaria while serving in the Boer War
- Prince Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1869-1931), died unmarried, illegitimate issue
- Princess Helena Victoria (1870-1948), Princess of Schleswig-Holstein 1870-1917, Princess Helena Victoria 1917-1948, died unmarried
- Princess Marie Louise (1872-1956), Princess of Schleswig-Holstein 1870-1917, Princess Marie Louise 1917-1956, married (1891) Prince Aribert of Anhalt, no issue, marriage dissolved 1900
- Prince Harald of Schleswig-Holstein (1876), died in infancy
6) Princess Louise (1848 -1939) married (1871) John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll (1845-1914)
Princess Louise and her husband at the time of their engagement; Photo Credit – Wikipedia
- No children
7) Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught (1850-1942) married (1879) Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia (1860-1917)
Connaught Family in 1893; Photo Credit – Wikipedia
- Princess Margaret of Connaught (1882-1920), married (1905) Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden (1882-1973), had issue, Margaret died before her husband became King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Danish and Swedish Royal Families descend from this marriage
- Prince Arthur of Connaught (1883-1938), married Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife (1891-1959), a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, had issue
- Princess Patricia of Connaught (1886-1974), married (1919) The Honorable Alexander Ramsay (1881-1972), had issue, upon her marriage Patricia voluntarily relinquished her title of Princess and her style Royal Highness and was known as Lady Patricia Ramsay
8) Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853-1884) married (1882) Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1861-1922)
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany; Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, by Hills & Saunders, albumen cabinet card, 1883. NPG Ax5552 © National Portrait Gallery, London
- Princess Alice of Albany (1883-1981), married (1904) Prince Alexander of Teck (1874-1957) after 1917 Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, had issue
- Prince Charles Edward, Duke of Albany, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884-1954), deprived of British titles in 1919, married (1905) Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein (1885-1970), had issue, Swedish Royal Family descends from this marriage
9) Princess Beatrice (1857-1944) married (1885) Prince Henry of Battenberg (1858-1896)
Princess Beatrice with her children in 1900
- Prince Alexander of Battenberg (1886-1960), after 1917 Alexander Mountbatten, Marquess of Carisbrooke, married (1917) Lady Irene Denison (1890-1956), had issue
- Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887-1969), married (1906) King Alfonso XIII of Spain (1886-1931), had issue, Spanish Royal Family descends from this marriage
- Prince Leopold of Battenberg (1889-1922), after 1917 Lord Leopold Mountbatten, died unmarried, hemophiliac, died after an operation
- Prince Maurice of Battenberg (1891-1914), died unmarried, killed in action during World War I