Queen Victoria married her first cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Together they went on to have nine children and 42 grandchildren. Only Princess Louise did not have children of her own. Their grandchildren included an Emperor, an Empress, a King, four Queens and a Crown Princess. Her son Leopold suffered from haemophilia and two of her daughters – Alice and Beatrice – passed the gene to their children. Leopold’s daughter was a carrier of the gene while his son was healthy. Princess Alice married the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse in 1862 and they went on to have seven children together. Of Alice’s two sons, one suffered from haemophilia and the two-year-old Friedrich died after a fall. Of her five daughters, two were definitely carriers- Alix, the future Tsarina of Russia and Irene, who married Prince Henry of Prussia – of the gene as they passed it on to their children. Princess Beatrice married Prince Henry of Battenberg in 1885. Of their three sons, one was a haemophiliac, while their only daughter Victoria Eugenie was a carrier of the gene.
So, who were all these grandchildren?
Victoria, Princess Royal
1. Wilhelm II, German Emperor and King of Prussia
2. Princess Charlotte, later Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen
3. Prince Henry of Prussia
4. Prince Sigismund of Prussia
5. Princess Viktoria, later Princess Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe
6. Prince Waldemar of Prussia
7. Princess Sophie, later Queen of the Hellenes
8. Princess Margaret, later Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel
King Edward VII
1. Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence
2. King George V
3. Louise, Princess Royal, later Duchess of Fife
4. Princess Victoria
5. Princess Maud, later Queen of Norway
6. Prince Alexander John of Wales
Princess Alice
1. Princess Victoria, later Marchioness of Milford Haven
2. Princess Elisabeth, later Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia
3. Princess Irene
4. Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse
5. Prince Friedrich
6. Princess Alix, later Empress of Russia
7. Princess Marie
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
1. Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
2. Princess Marie, later Queen of Romania
3. Princess Victoria Melita, later Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna of Russia
4. Princess Alexandra, later Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
5. Stillborn son
6. Princess Beatrice, later Duchess of Galliera
Princess Helena
1. Prince Christian Victor
2. Prince Albert
3. Princess Helena Victoria
4. Princess Marie Louise, later Princess Aribert of Anhalt
5. Prince Harald
6. Stillborn son
Princess Louise
No issue.
Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
1. Princess Margaret, later Crown Princess of Sweden
2. Prince Arthur of Connaught
3. Princess Patricia of Connaught, later Lady Patricia Ramsay
Leopold, Duke of Albany
1. Princess Alice, later Countess of Athlone
2. Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Princess Beatrice
1. Prince Alexander, later 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke
2. Princess Victoria Eugénie, later Queen of Spain
3. Prince Leopold, later Lord Leopold Mountbatten
4. Prince Maurice
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