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Queen Victoria's Children and Grandchildren

Offspring of Britain's Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

By , About.com Guide

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had nine children. The marriage of the children of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert into other royal families, and the likelihood that her children bore a mutant gene for hemophilia, affected European history.

Children of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert:

  1. Victoria Adelaide Mary, Princess Royal, born November 21, 1840
    married Frederick III of Germany
    • Kaiser Wilhelm II, German Emperor
    • Duchess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen
    • Prince Henry of Prussia
    • Sigismund
    • Princess Victoria
    • Waldemar
    • Sophie of Prussia, Queen of Greece
    • Princess Margarete of Hesse

  2. Albert Edward, King of England as Edward VII, born November 9, 1841
    married Princess Alexandra of Denmark
    • Duke Albert Victor Christian
    • King George V
    • Louise Victoria Alexandra, Princess Royal
    • Victoria Alexandra Olga
    • Princess Maude Charlotte Mary
    • John Alexander

  3. Alice Maud Mary, born April 25, 1843
    married Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
    • Princess Victoria Alberta of Hesse
    • Elizabeth, Grand Duchess
    • Princess Irene of Hesse
    • Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse
    • Frederick
    • Alexandra, Tsarina of Russia
    • Mary

  4. Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh and of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, born August 6, 1844
    married Marie Alexandrovna, Grand Duchess, Russia
    • Prince Alfred
    • Marie of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Queen of Romania
    • Victoria Melita of Edinburgh, Grand Duchess
    • Princess Alexandra
    • Princess Beatrice

  5. Helena Augusta Victoria, born May 25, 1846
    married Prince Kristian of Schleswig-Holstein
    • Christian Victor
    • Duke Albert of Schleswig-Holstein
    • Princess Helena Victoria
    • Princess Maria Louise
    • Frederick Harold

  6. Louise Caroline Alberta, born March 18, 1848
    married John Campbell, Duke of Argyll, Marquis of Lorne

  7. Arthur William Patrick, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, born May 1, 1850
    married Duchess Louise Margaret of Prussia
    • Margaret of Sweden, Crown Princess
    • Duke Arthur of Connaught
    • Patricia, Lady Ramsay

  8. Leopold George Duncan, Duke of Albany, born April 7, 1853
    married Princess Helena Frederica of Waldeck
    • Princess Alice of Athlone
    • Duke Charles Edward

  9. Beatrice Mary Victoria, born April 14, 1857
    married Prince Henry of Battenberg
    • Marquess Alexander of Carisbrooke
    • Victoria Eugenie, Queen of Spain
    • Leopold
    • Prince Maurice

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