"Victoria's Daughters" Trivia Quiz

Answer: 8

Vicky and Fritz had eight children: William, Charlotte, Henry, Sigismund, Victoria, Waldemar, Sophie and Margaret. They were born in 1859, 1860, 1862, 1864, 1866, 1868, 1870 and 1872 respectively.

Answer: 1

Of Alice's seven children Victoria, Elizabeth, Irene, Ernst, Friedrich, Alexandra and Marie only Friedrich suffered from hemophilia. Irene and Alexandra were carriers, but not sufferers as females are not sufferers of hemophilia.

Answer: Laudanum

Whether she was truly ill or not remains to be seen. The doctor prescribed laudanum, which she became addicted to. Her husband Prince Christian persuaded the doctor to lessen the medicine and eventually stopped giving it to Helena altogether. The doctor prescribed a spirit lotion which she rubbed in her eyes with which was nothing more than a placebo.

Answer: None

It's entirely possible that a teenage bout of meningitis rendered Louise unable to have children. Her husband John Campbell Marquess of Lorne not once blamed her for it.

Answer: Victoria Eugenie

Alexander was not a sufferer nor a carrier and the same is said for Maurice who died of wounds in World War I. Leopold died in 1922 from a knee operation while being a sufferer of hemophilia. Only Victoria Eugenie was a carrier and two of her six children suffered from hemophilia - Alfonso and Gonzalo.

Answer: Cancer

Vicky a superb horsewoman was thrown from her horse and after constant pain it was discovered she had breast cancer. Unfortunately the cancer was beyond treating and Vicky suffered greatly and died less than seven months after Queen Victoria's death.

Answer: "Dear Papa"

Nearly all of the Hesse-Darmstadt royal family had gone down with diphtheria except Alice and her daughter Elizabeth. Her daughter Marie died on November 14 , 1878 from complications of diphtheria. Alice had deliberately kept news of her death from the ill family especially son Ernst. Finally she told Ernst that Marie died and his reaction was so terrible that Alice broke the cardinal rule: don't touch and picked up her son and kissed him. On December 14 Alice died of diphtheria the seventeenth anniversary of Prince Albert's death.

Her last words were: "Dear Papa".

Answer: Marie Louise

Marie Louise married Prince Aribert of Anhalt on July 6, 1891 but the marriage was very unhappy and childless. She up and left him for Canada causing her father-in-law Prince Frederick of Anhalt to telegram her to return to her marital duties. Not too long later Queen Victoria sent a telegram to her granddaughter telling to come to her. Frederick had the marriage annulled not too long later. Marie Louise never remarried and was Helena's only child to marry.

Answer: 14 years

John's father George Campbell died in 1900 making him The Duke of Argyll and Louise as his duchess. This reign lasted only 14 years and yielded no children so there's no proof of her being a carrier of hemophilia.

Answer: HRH The Princess Beatrice

In response to war with Germany, King George V changed the royal family name from "Saxe-Coburg-Gotha" to "Windsor". No one in the royal family was referred to by their German names and titles. Upon her marriage to Henry, Beatrice became HRH Princess Henry of Battenberg. But in 1917 she officially reverted to HRH The Princess Beatrice.