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Beatrice. She was Queen Victoria's youngest daughter and was known in the family as 'Baby.'
| Queen Victoria's daughter, also named Victoria, also had a large family. How many children did she have? | Queen Victoria's Children
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8. Two of her children died young and her eldest almost died in birth.
4. Their names where: Albert Edward, Alfred, Leopold and Arthur.
Victoria and Arthur. Victoria married Prince Frederick William of Prussia. Arthur married Princess Louise Margrete of Prussia.
Duke of Connaught . Arthur turned down the German throne of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha when his brother died. Wise choice.
Alfred. Alfred married Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia . His second daughter Victoria Melitia married as her second husband Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich.
Helena. Although Helena, Princess of Schleswig-Holstein had 4 adult children, she did not have any legitimate grandchildren.
Louise. Louise, Duchess of Argyll had no children and died in 1939.
Leopold George Duncan Albert.
1819. She was born in 1819, ascended the throne in 1837, and married in 1840.
| Prince Albert, Victoria's husband (and first cousin), was from which country? | Queen Victoria
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Germany. He was an obscure German prince before he married Victoria.
9. Victoria, Albert, Alfred, Alice, Helena, Louise, Arthur, Leopold, and Beatrice are the children of Victoria and Albert. The Church of England didn't allow contraceptives and the doctors at the time had a poor understanding of gynecology.
| Victoria had a poor childhood. Her mother, the Duchess of Kent, treated her poorly along with which man? | Queen Victoria
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Sir John Conroy. The Duke of Kent was Victoria's father who died very early on so she never knew him. King William IV, who ruled before Victoria, treated her wonderfully (he was her uncle). Lord Melborne was Victoria's first Prime Minister and she looked up to him as a father figure.
| What is NOT true of the proposal and marriage of Victoria and Albert? | Queen Victoria
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Albert proposed to Victoria and she accepted. Albert NEVER proposed to Victoria. He wasn't allowed to because of his title of being a prince. Victoria fell head over heels in love when she first saw him (And I don't blame her. Albert's pretty good looking :))
| Which one of Victoria and Albert's children was the most troublesome? | Queen Victoria
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Albert a.k.a 'Bertie'. In modern terms, we'd refer to him as a 'rebellious punk.' He smoked, drank, and participated in debauchery. He was a problem for his parents, especially due to the fact that he was next-in-line for the throne of England.
Smoking. She dissapproved of smoking, believe it or not, putting her ahead of her time.
| Queen Victoria mourned the loss of her husband, Albert, for practically the rest of her life. True or false? | Queen Victoria
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True . After Prince Albert died of typhoid (and various other ailments), Victoria never really got over his death.
| After her daughter Alice died in 1878, Victoria adopted her 'orphaned' granddaughter, Princess Alex. Which monarch did Alex marry? | Queen Victoria
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Tsar Nicholas II. She married into the ill-fated Romanov family of Russia where she bore Nicholas five children, one of which was a hemophiliac (Victoria's son, Leopold was also a hemophiliac so it ran in the family).
1901. She died in 1901, just one year after the birth of Elizabeth II's mother.
1819. Before the birth of Victoria, the only heir to the throne (in the next generation) was Princess Charlotte, who died in childbirth in 1817. Coincidentally, Charlotte was married to Victoria's uncle, the King of the Belgians.
Edward, Duke of Kent. The above named was the fourth son of George III, his elder brothers had failed to produce legitimate heirs, and so he felt it his duty to marry, and leave his mistress of thirty years standing.
Alexandrina Victoria. These names had to be approved by the the Prince Regent. They originally chose Victoire Georgiana Alexandrina, but the Regent refused Georgiana, as Alexandrina was in reference to the Tsar, and he refused to have his name come before or after that of the Tsar.
Baroness Lehzen. Her governess and a friend, who also looked after Victria's eldest two children. She was sent back to Germany after the eldest child had a high fever and was not treated properly.
William IV. This King had no legitimate children, but did have a number of illegitimate children, by the name of FitzClarence.
Leopold. He was married to the heir presumptive, Princess Charlotte, who died in 1817. It was his sister Victoire, whom he recommended to marry Victoria's father
Franz August Karl Albert Emmanuel. Albert's father was Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and his elder brother was to succeed his father. This is why Albert was deemed the more suitable partner for Victoria.
1840. It only took Victoria five days to propose to Albert, after seeing him again for the first time in three years.
Victoria. Princess Victoria was the wife of the future (liberal) Kaiser Friedrich, who ruled Germany for a mere 100 days in 1888 before dying of cancer of the throat. Their child was Kaiser Wilhelm II, who led Germany to war in 1914.
Leopold. Although a haemophiliac, he fathered two children, the second of which was born the very year he died.
Alice. The above's child also died the same year.
Louise. Louise married the Duke of Argyll. She was very artistic, and became a sculptress.
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