Brigitte's Pages

What's New
Site Map

Search
Engines

Main Page
Surnames
Research

Germany
Baden
Bavaria
Wuerttemberg

Royalty

Poets
Philosophers ...
Movers+Shakers
Entertainers

v. Stauffenberg
v. Wuerttemberg
v. Castell
v. Helfenstein

Popes
Cardinals
Saints

Family Search
Archives, etc.
Diaries

Argentina
South America

The Royal Oak Tree


 

By the year of the Jubilee, 1887, Victoria had become known as *the grandmother of Europe* through the intermarriage of her children with the royal houses of the Continent. This Jubiliee Tree shows all the descendants of Victoria and Albert by 1887. 
On the top right are:
Edward and Alexandra, Prince and Princess of Wales with their five children; their second son was to become King George V.
Below them, from top to bottom are:
Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh with Marie of Russia and their children; Princess Louise and the Duke of Argyll; Leopold, Duke of Albany with Helena of Waldeck-Pyrmont; and Princess Beatrice with Henry of Battenberg.
On the top left are:
Victoria, Princess Royal and Empress of Germany, with her husband Emperor Frederick III and their children and grandchildren. Their eldest son became Emperor Wilhelm II, enemy of his cousin George V in the first world war.
Below them the German royal family, from top to bottom are the families of:
Princess Alice and Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt (from whom the present Duke of Edinburgh is descended); Princess Helena and Christian of Schleswig-Holstein; Arthur, Duke of Connaught, with Louise of Prussia.


 
 
 
Worldroots Home Page - Contact Us - Privacy Policy