| 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. |