![]() ![]() It is not possible to be on happy friendly terms with people you have just been scolding," Albert once wrote to Victoria on her parenting. "The root of the trouble lies in the mistaken notion that the function of a mother is to be always correcting, scolding, ordering them about and organizing their activities. Remarkably for the time, all of the children lived to adulthood. Over the course of next 17 years Victoria gave birth to nine children: Victoria, Albert "Bertie," Alice, Alfred, Helena, Louise, Arthur, Leopold, and Beatrice. Though the young Queen is quoted as saying she had "the greatest horror of having children and would rather have none," Princess Victoria, better known as Vicky, was born just over nine months after Queen Victoria's wedding to Albert in 1840. But what was Victoria really like as a mom? How Many Children Did She Have? Some historians have speculated that she was disengaged, resentful, and even disgusted by her children, while others have argued that time, editing, and Victoria's own frankness painted an unrealistic picture of the so-called Grandmother of Europe. And while the iconic Queen has become known for many things, perhaps one of her mostly hotly debated roles was that of mother.Īs the central figure in one of the greatest love stories-and tragedies-of her time, who went on to become the most famous single mother in the world, much has been made of Victoria's reputation as a parent. The marriage of Charles’ grandfather, James VI-I of Scotland and England married, Anne, the daughter of King Frederik II of Denmark and from this union also descends many of the great royal houses of Europe.Īs I discuss this topic on Monday we will come to see all the myriad ways in which the various royal families are related.In the century since her death, Queen Victoria's mystique has only grown. Charles II of England and Scotland was the first cousin of King Louis XIV of France. Their mutual descent from the Electress Sophia made Fritz and Vicky 5th cousins.Įven if you go further back into the British Royal Family’s genealogy, their members frequently married into or chose members from the reigning houses that ruled France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Italy and many others. The next time the Prussians and the British royal family mingled was when Friedrich III’s great aunt, Princess Frederica, married Princess Victoria, the Princess Royal’s great uncle, Prince Frederick, Duke of York. Electress Sophia’s daughter, also named Sophia, married King Friedrich I of Prussia and their son, King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia married his first cousin, Princess Sophia Dorothea of Great Britain. Both were descendants of Sophia of the Rhine (Electress Sophia) and Elector Ernst August of Hanover, the line from which the royal family earned its claim to the throne. ![]() Let us take the marriage of Victoria and Albert’s eldest daughter, Princess Victoria, the Princess Royal, and her marriage to the future Friedrich III, German Emperor and King of Prussia as an example. Today all the reigning royal families are related and this is nothing new. While this is true, in some ways I find it misleading because royals marrying royals is a practice that had been going on for centuries. One of the things I have read frequently is the statement that the descendants of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert married into all the great Royal Houses of Europe. To be more accurate I also am equally interested in the Edwardian Age and the time until the end of the First World War. After sorting out the genealogy of the British Royal Family the era that piqued my interest the most was the Victorian Era. When I began my interest in royalty, genealogy was the doorway by which I entered. ![]()
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