The Royal House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Quiz

Answer: Victoria

Her Royal Highness Princess Royal Victoria Adelaide Mary was born on the 21st November 1840. She married His Royal Highness Emperor Frederick III Hohenzollern of Germany on 25 January 1858 and is the mother of Kaiser William II of Germany.

Answer: King Constantine I Schleswig-Holstein of Greece

Princess Sophie Dorothea Ulrica Hohenzollern of Germnay was born on 14 June 1870 in Neues, Palais, Potsdam, Germany. She married King Constantine I Schleswig-Holstein on 27 October 1889 in Athens, Greece. She saw three of her sons become Kings of Greece - King George II, King Alexander I and King Paul I.

Answer: Landgrave Frederick Charles Hesse-Kassel

Margaret Beatrice Feodora Hohenzollern was born on 22 April 1872 in Neues, Palais, Potsdam, Germany. She married Landgrave Frederick Charles Hesse-Darmsdart of Hesse on 25 January 1893 in Friedenskirche, Potsdam. She gave her husband six sons, a worthy feat in their time. Duke Bernard III Saxe-Meningen of Saxe-Meningen married Margaret's sister, Princess Charlotte Hohenzollern of Germany. Prince Adolf Schaumburg-Lippe of Lippe married Margaret's other sister, Princess Victoria Hohenzollern of Germany.

Answer: Longest Serving Prince of Wales

King Edward VII Saxe-Coburg-Gotha of Great Britain was the Prince of Wales for a record 60 years before he became King.
Prince Charles (born November 1948) became the longest-serving Price of Wales in 2014 (62 years).

Answer: King Charles Haakon VII Glucksburg of Norway

Princess Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria Saxe-Coburg-Gotha of Great Britain married Prince Charles Haakon Schleswig-Holstein of Denmark in 22 Jul 1896. In 1905 after Norway declared its independence from Sweden, the people of Norway invited him to undertake the throne of Norway. Only after a referrendum, requested by Prince Charles, supported the appointment did he accept. King Frederick VIII Schleswig-Holstein of Denmark was King Charles Haakon VII's father and he had married Princess Louise Josephine Eugene Bernadotte of Sweden. King William George I Schleswig-Holstein of Greece married Princess Olga Constantionova Romanov of Russia. Tsar Alexander II Romanov married Princess Marie 'Dagmar' Schleswig-Holstein of Denmark.

Answer: Jack the Ripper

Although there were suspicions of a Catholic marriage, he was also suspected of the Ripper murders, for the victims of those murders were allegedly witnesses to his supposed marriage to Alice Crook, a catholic commoner.

Answer: Third

Princess Alice Maud Mary Saxe-Coburg-Gotha of Great Britain was the third child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

Answer: Alexandrina Victoria

Her original intended name was Charlotte Georgia Alexandra. However King George IV Hanover of Great Britain refused the use of his daughter's name as well as that of her own. He allowed Alexandrina to be used as her godfather was Tsar Alexander II Romanov of Russia.

However when it appeared that she was going to be christened with only one name, King George IV allowed her to have her mother's name, but it must not preceede the name of the Tsar.

Answer: Princess Elizabeth von Hesse-Darmstadt

Princess Elizabeth von Hesse-Darmsdart of Hesse was born on 1 November 1864 to Grand Duke Louis IV von Hesse-Darmsdart of Hesse and Princess Alice Maud Mary Saxe-Coburg-Gotha of Great Britain. She married Grand Duke Serge Alexandrovich Romanov on 15 June 1884 in the Winter Palace of St Petersburg, Russia.

She was murdered by the Bolsheviks on 17 July 1918 in the Ural Mountains of Russia.

Answer: 1st Cousins

Prince Henry Hohenzollern's mother was Princess Royal Victoria Adelaide Mary and Princess Irene von Hesse-Darmsdart's mother was Princess Alice Maud Mary.

Answer: Grand Duke Krill Vladimirovitich Romanov of Russia

Grand Duke Krill Vladimirovitich Romanov of Russia was born on 12 October 1876 to Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovitch of Russia and Princess Marie Pavlovna von Mecklenburg of Mecklenburg. It is through this marriage and their son, Grand Duke Vladimir Krillovitch Romanov of Russia that Grand Duchess Maria Romanov claim the Russian throne.

Answer: King Ferninand I Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen of Romania

King Ferninand I Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen of Romania was born 24 August 1865 in Sigmaringen, Germany. He became King of Romania on 10 October 1914 shortly after the outbreak of World War I.

Answer: Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein

Prince Frederick Christian Schleswig-Holstein is related to all of these Kingdoms, however the direct descentant is from the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein.

Answer: She never had any children

Princess Louise Caroline Alberta Saxe-Coburg-Gotha of Great Britain was born on 18 March 1848 in Buckingham Palace, St James Park, London, England. She married Duke John Douglas Sutherland Campbell of Argyll on 21 March 1871 in St George's Chapel, Winsdor Castle.

Answer: King Gustaf VI Bernadotte of Sweden

Princess Margaret Victoria Saxe-Coburg-Gotha of Connaught married Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf on 15 June 1905 in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, London, England. The couple were blessed with five children before she died of an ear infection before her husband became King.

Answer: 1st Cousins Once Removed

Prince Arthur Frederick Saxe-Coburg-Gotha's father was Duke Arthur Williams Patrick Saxe-Coburg-Gotha of Connaught and Duchess Alexandra Victoria Alberta Edwina's mother was Princess Royal Louise Victoria Alexandra Windsor, the daughter of King Edward VII Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Princess Alexandra Schleswig-Holstein of Denmark.

Answer: Duke of Albany

The Duke of Kent was Victoria's father and she was reluctant to re-establish the title. The Duke of Edinburgh was Leopold's brother and the Duke of York reminded Victoria of her Uncle, whom she disliked.

Answer: Queen Mary von Teck of Great Britain

Princess Mary is his mother. Princess Augusta is his grand-mother. Princess May is his daughter.

Answer: Tsarevich Alexei Nicholvitch Romanov of Russia

All are Great-Grandsons of Queen Victoria.

Answer: Portugal

Although the Royal House of Portugal was once Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, it was stemed from Queen Victoria's first cousin, Duke Ferninand Saxe-Coburg-Gotha who married Queen Maria II de Braganca of Portugal. Norway, Russia and Sweden all have descendants in their modern royal family.