Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria’s Family Tree (1819–1901)

#GrandmotherofEurope

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had 9 children and 42 grandchildren.

Their descendants became members of royal families across Europe, earning Victoria the nickname “Grandmother of Europe.”

1. Queen Victoria and her nine children

Queen Victoria (1819–1901)

m. 1840

Prince Albert (1819–1861)

9 children, in birth order

1

Victoria (1840–1901)

German Empress; mother of Kaiser Wilhelm II

2

Albert Edward (1841–1910)

King Edward VII; ancestor of Charles III

3

Alice (1843–1878)

Grand Duchess of Hesse; grandmother of Prince Philip

4

Alfred (1844–1900)

Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

5

Helena (1846–1923)

Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein

6

Louise (1848–1939)

Duchess of Argyll; no children

7

Arthur (1850–1942)

Duke of Connaught

8

Leopold (1853–1884)

Duke of Albany

9

Beatrice (1857–1944)

Princess of Battenberg; ancestor of Spanish royalty

2. Connection to World War I monarchs

Three major monarchs during World War I belonged to Queen Victoria’s extended family.

Queen Victoria

Victoria

Daughter

Wilhelm II

German Kaiser

Edward VII

Son

George V

British King

Alice

Daughter

Alix

Russian Empress

Wilhelm II

George V

Alexandra

The remarkable WWI connection:

Britain’s George V and Germany’s Wilhelm II were Queen Victoria’s grandsons and first cousins.

Russia’s Tsarina Alexandra was also her granddaughter, married to Tsar Nicholas II.

George V and Nicholas II were themselves first cousins through their Danish mothers.

This meant that Britain, Germany, and Russia were ruled by closely related royal families, even though they fought on opposing sides of

World War I.

For an authoritative family-tree diagram, see the Royal Collection Trust family tree (PDF)⁠.