Descendants of Queen Victoria

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Victoria (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901. She and her prince consort, Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861), became the ancestors of many members of European royalty. Victoria married Albert, her first cousin, on 10 February 1840, less than three years after she acceded to the throne. Although Victoria and Albert had a loving and intimate marriage, she struggled with pregnancy and motherhood. Her relationship with her eldest son, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) was notably strained, and her animosity intensified following Albert's death in 1861. Eight of Victoria and Albert's nine children had children of their own. Through these marriages, their descendants married into royal families across Europe, where many became either monarchs themselves or royal consorts, earning Victoria the nickname "grandmother of Europe." Their grandson Wilhelm II, for instance, became the Emperor of Germany, while...

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