House of Saxe-Coburg Trivia

1. When he was 19, Edward became the first Prince of Wales to tour North America, when he visited Canada and the United States. During the trip, he stayed at the White House as the guest of which US president?

From Quiz Good Old Teddy - The Life of Edward VII

Answer: James Buchanan

In May of 1859, the government of the Province of Canada invited Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to tour the country, with a major element being the hope that the Queen would open the newly completed Victoria Bridge across the St Lawrence River. Although the Queen declined the invitation, she offered to send her eldest son, the Prince of Wales, in her place. The trip was planned as a "coming out" for the 19-year old Prince, and was greeted with significant enthusiasm, both by the Canadians, and subsequently from the United States, with President Buchanan extending an invitation that he also make a visit to the country while on the tour. The tour lasted between July and November 1860, and saw the Prince, in addition to opening the Victoria Bridge, visit Ottawa, where he laid the cornerstone of the new Canadian Parliament building, as well as a visit to Niagara Falls, where he saw Charles Blondin cross by highwire, and three days at the White House as the guest of President Buchanan, who also accompanied Edward to visit the tomb of George Washington at Mount Vernon. The trip was a diplomatic success, as well as a personal triumph for the Prince of Wales, with acclaim heaped on him from all sides. President Buchanan and Queen Victoria exchanged letters praising the Prince for his conduct during the visit, which led to the Queen stating that he "deserves the highest praise".

From Quiz We Are Very Much Amused

Answer: "She behaved with great propriety and like a Christian."

Princess Victoria, or Vicky as her parents fondly called her, crowed and laughed and waved her arms around the entire time, so much so that the attention of all present was on the child rather than on the royal couple.

From Quiz The Marriages of Queen Victoria's Children

Answer: 17

This marriage was controversial from the beginning. In England, the Hohenzollerns, Fritz's family, were considered nothing more than parvenues. In Prussia, Vicky's parents, Prince Albert and Queen Victoria, were considered much too liberal for their daughter to marry into the reactionary Prussian royal family. Also, Fritz's parents, Prince William and Princess Augusta of Prussia, who expected to inherit the throne when William's insane brother died, thought the marriage should take place in Berlin. Queen Victoria, of course, wasn't about to back down. 'It is not every day that one marries the eldest daughter of the Queen of England!' she fumed. In this, as in most things, the Queen had her own way. The couple were married in the Chapel Royal at St. James's Palace on 25 January 1858. It was a true love match, but the couple's lives in Germany would be far from easy.

From Quiz Queen Victoria's Grandchildren, Part 3

Answer: 1863

Her Serene Highness Princess Victoria Alberta Elizabeth Matilda Mary of Hesse and the Rhine was born on April 5 in Windsor Castle, where Alice had gone for the birth. Being Alice's first child, and a girl, there was only one possible name the girl could be given - that of her illustrious maternal grandmother. The 'Alberta' in her name was a tribute to Alice's late father, the Prince Consort, who had died two years earlier. Alice and Louis's wedding was a dismal affair, with the Queen still in mourning for Albert. It was more like a funeral than a wedding.

From Quiz Queen Victoria's Grandchildren, Part 1

Answer: 15 hours

It was a very difficult breech birth. Most people were certain that both Vicky and the baby would die, and notices were made ready to send to the press if this happened. Neither of them died, but little Willy was born with a withered arm, and recent research suggests that he was cut off from oxygen for a time while in the womb, thus causing brain damage. This may have contributed to his rather unstable personality in the future.

From Quiz Queen Victoria's Children

Answer: Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany

Vicky (full name Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise) was the cleverest of all the children, and always Albert's favourite. She married Prince Frederick William ('Fritz') of Prussia in 1858 and in due course became first Princess Frederick William, then Crown Princess of Prussia, and eventually (if only for a short time), German Empress. Wilhelm, Victoria and Albert's first grandchild, was born in 1859. Little did his adoring young parents know how much trouble he was to give them.

From Quiz Edward VII - King in Waiting

Answer: Buckingham Palace

Prince Albert Edward was born on the 9th November, 1841. He was the second child and oldest son of Queen Victoria. He became the Prince of Wales at the age of 25 when the title was conferred on him. One eminent historian, Jasper Ridley, declared St. James' Palace to be his birthplace but appears to have been misled by the proclamation of the birth taking place there.

From Quiz The Royal House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

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.

From Quiz Saxe Coburg Gotha and Windsor Consorts

Answer: Prince Albert of Saxe - Coburg - Gotha

Victoria and Albert married in 1840 and had nine children before Albert's death in 1862. Victoria's favourite son was Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, because he so resembled his father in personality.

From Quiz Good Old Teddy - The Life of Edward VII

Answer: Grenadier Guards

Edward had desired to embark on a career in the British Army, but this idea was prevented by his parents. However, as an attempt to instill a degree of discipline in their son, they allowed him to join the Grenadier Guards, who were stationed at The Curragh in County Kildare, for ten weeks for the regiment's exercises. At the time, Edward was inexperienced with women; his only time had been with an Irish actress named Nellie Clifden, to whom he had been introduced while at Cambridge University. His inexperience led to his fellow officers bringing Nellie Clifden into camp, where she spent several nights with the Prince, with each noted in his appointment book. Despite efforts at secrecy, news of Edward's liaison eventually reached the ears of Edward's parents. Upon his return to Cambridge from Ireland in November 1861, Edward was visited by his father, Prince Albert. Despite feeling very unwell, Albert insisted on taking a long walk in the rain with his son to discuss the issue. Following this, he returned to Windsor, where his health grew worse, and he died on 14 December. The Queen believed that the stress of the situation with their son contributed to the death of her husband, with it affecting their relationship for the rest of her life.

From Quiz We Are Very Much Amused

Answer: "All this dissipation does me a great deal of good."

Victoria had a very strict and lonely childhood at the hands of her mother and Captain Conroy, where she was kept isolated and controlled. It is understandable that, after becoming Queen, she would relish all the delights of a ball. The one person to whom she could share these thoughts and to whom she always turned for affection and understanding in those early years of her reign was this most loved uncle.

From Quiz The Marriages of Queen Victoria's Children

Answer: Vicky, the Crown Princess of Prussia

Under her mother's instructions, Vicky scoured the 'Almanach de Gotha' for a suitable princess to marry her troublesome brother Bertie. She would have preferred him to marry a German, but the photos she sent him failed to light his fire. In the end, it was her lady-in-waiting and good friend, Walburga ('Wally') Hohenthal, whose husband had worked as an attache at the Danish court, who pointed her in Princess Alexandra's direction. Vicky risked Prussian ire in arranging this marriage - it was extremely unpopular in Prussia, because of the mired Schleswig-Holstein dispute with Denmark. It was a testament to her love for Bertie that she did her best to further the match. Bertie and 'Alix' married in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, on March 10 1863. Alix and Bertie seemed happy, and she endured his frequent affairs with amazing patience.

From Quiz Queen Victoria's Grandchildren, Part 3

Answer: Elizabeth

Elizabeth Alexandra Louise Alice, or Ella as she was called in the family, grew up to be the beauty of the family, though as a child, her mother complained that she was 'pale and languid'. Ella was perhaps the most beautiful of all Queen Victoria's granddaughters.

From Quiz Queen Victoria's Grandchildren, Part 1

Answer: Victoria

Though she was christened Victoria Elizabeth Augusta Charlotte, the child was always called Charlotte in the family. Like the Kaiser, she detested and disrespected their mother, and often spread malicious gossip about her. She later became Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen when she married Duke Bernhard, and had a child aged 18, making Vicky a grandmother at 38, and Queen Victoria a great-grandmother at 59.

From Quiz Queen Victoria's Children

Answer: His wife was the niece of a previous king

Alix's mother Louise was the daughter of William X of Hesse Cassel and Princess Charlotte of Denmark, sister of King Christian VIII. Louise was the dominant personality in the Gule Palace where Alix was brought up, but she unfortunately passed on her tendency toward deafness to her charming daughter. Alix, said to be the greatest beauty of her time, tolerated Bertie's frequent infidelities with commendable patience.

From Quiz Queen Victoria

Answer: Mary Louise Victoria of Saxe-Coburg

Bit of a trick, that one. Mary Louise was always known as Victoria. She was the widow of the Duke of Leiningen when she married Duke Edward, and she was the haughty, overbearing type. During William IV's reign, she demanded that, as mother of the heiress to the throne, she should be treated as the "Dowager Princess of Wales", and given an income befitting that status. The King, who detested her, did not grant her wish.

From Quiz Edward VII - King in Waiting

Answer: Victoria

Princess Victoria married Frederick III, the Emperor of Germany. In England she was given the title of the Princess Royal. She died in 1901, the same year that Queen Victoria herself died and Edward came to the throne.

From Quiz The Royal House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

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.

From Quiz Saxe Coburg Gotha and Windsor Consorts

Answer: Alexandra of Denmark

Alexandra was obliged to ignore her husband's many affairs and because of this rarely came into Edward's disapproval. She bore her husband five children.

From Quiz Good Old Teddy - The Life of Edward VII

Answer: St George's Chapel, Windsor

In an effort to curb their son's reputation as a "playboy", his parents sought a suitable bride for him, and eventually settled on Alexandra, the eldest daughter of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, the heir to the Danish throne. The two met for the first time during Edward's visit to his elder sister, Victoria, in Speyer Cathedral in September 1861. Although Edward's father died two months later, the effort to engineer an engagement continued and, in September 1862 at the Palace of Laeken in Belgium, Edward proposed to Alexandra. Having accepted, Alexandra eventually came to England on 7 March 1863, three days before the planned date of the wedding. Queen Victoria had decided that the wedding would take place at St George's Chapel, located within the precincts of Windsor Castle. This was not usual, as most royal weddings at the time tended to take place in the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace in London. There was some grumbling from the press about the venue, as it meant fewer people would be able to see the couple. The wedding was officiated by the Archbishop of Canterbury, with a banquet held in St George's Hall in the castle, and the couple honeymooning at Osborne on the Isle of Wight.

From Quiz Queen Victoria's Grandchildren, Part 3

Answer: Peace

She named her thus because, at the time, the Austro-Prussian war was in full swing, and Hesse-Darmstadt had been occupied by Prussian troops. It was a very difficult time for Alice, since she and Louis were on the Austrian side and Alice's eldest sister Vicky was the Crown Princess of Prussia. In any event, Prussia destroyed Austria within seven weeks, but though she swallowed other German states (like Hanover) whole, Hesse-Darmstadt was left alone for the most part. Irene grew up to be a quiet, gentle girl, not as beautiful as her sisters. She was the family peacemaker, and always made sure the other children done the right thing, so much so that she was known as 'Aunt Fuss'.

From Quiz Queen Victoria's Grandchildren, Part 2

Answer: Rheumatic fever

This left Alix with a permanent limp, which was often copied by other society ladies as a fashion. Louise, thankfully, was quite healthy, though in later life she would be constantly abed with various illnesses. She was christened on May 10th 1867, Louise after her grandmother the Queen of Denmark, Alexandra after her mother, Victoria (naturally) after her other grandmother and Dagmar after her Danish aunt, Alix's favorite sister ('Minnie' to the family). As a child, the princess was sometimes called Lulu.

From Quiz Queen Victoria's Grandchildren, Part 1

Answer: A naval career

Henry was initially close to his elder brother Wilhelm, and disrespectful to his mother and father, but marriage to his cousin Princess Irene of Hesse mellowed him, and he became more polite to his English relatives.

From Quiz Queen Victoria's Children

Answer: Bernstoff

After the equerry said in exasperation that nowhere was as boring as Fresdenborg, Bertie exploded, 'How dare you? Oh, I forgot, you haven't been to Bernstoff yet!'

From Quiz Queen Victoria

Answer: Charles and Feodore

Victoria was very close to Feodore, 12 years her senior. Feodore later married the Count of Hohenlohe-Langeburg and Victoria rarely saw her again.

From Quiz The Royal House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

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.

From Quiz Saxe Coburg Gotha and Windsor Consorts

Answer: Mary of Teck

Mary of Teck was originally intended to wed George's elder brother, Albert, then the heir to the throne but he died in 1892.

From Quiz Good Old Teddy - The Life of Edward VII

Answer: Marlborough House

Marlborough House was originally built in 1711 for Sarah Churchill, the Duchess of Marlborough, and served as the London residence of the Dukes of Marlborough for more than a century. Following the death of the 4th Duke of Marlborough in 1817, the building was purchased as a home for Princess Charlotte of Wales and her husband, Prince Leopold. Although she died before they could move in, Leopold used the building as his own home until he became King of the Belgians in 1831. Subsequently used by Queen Adelaide until her death in 1849, it was assigned for the use of the Prince of Wales once he turned 19. Between 1861 and 1863, Marlborough House was expanded, being completed in time for the Prince of Wales and his new bride to move in. Marlborough House subsequently became one of the centres of London society during the time that the Prince and Princess of Wales lived there, with the Prince's fast-living social circle referred to by Queen Victoria as the "Marlborough House set". The couple lived at Marlborough House until Edward succeeded his mother as King, after which his son George used it as his home with his own wife, Mary.

From Quiz We Are Very Much Amused

Answer: Gave her spaniel, Dash, a bath

Another occasion where Victoria was witnessed escaping from the regal image imposed upon her was following the occasion of her first Privy Council meeting, when she was just eighteen. She presided over this event with great dignity and remarkable composure for one so young and inexperienced. After leaving the Chamber in a dignified manner becoming of a Queen however, she forgot it was a glass door which closed behind her. All members of the Council therefore witnessed their Queen skipping off like a pupil just released from school.

From Quiz The Marriages of Queen Victoria's Children

Answer: Bertie, Alix and Alice

This was all tied up in the affair of the Schleswig-Holstein Duchies. In 1864, Bismarck's Prussia had invaded the Duchies, taken them from Denmark and annexed them to Prussia. Meanwhile, Prince Christian's family claimed to be their lawful rulers. Christian's brother was an old school friend of Fritz's and Vicky (with characteristic enthusiasm) proclaimed Christian 'the best creature in the world.' Queen Victoria was also pleased with him, since she knew he would not mind living in England. But Princess Alexandra, whose father was the King of Denmark, attested that 'the Duchies belong to Papa!' Bertie supported her, and so did Alice, who privately felt that the age gap (15 years) between Christian and Helena was too much. In the end, Alice mediated, and convinced Bertie to attend the weddding for Helena's sake. Helena married Christian in the Private Chapel at Windsor Castle on 5 July 1866. The couple seemed to genuinely care for each other, and the marriage lasted 51 years, the only marriage among those of the Queen's children to reach its golden anniversary.

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