A Right Royal English and Scottish Miscellany 2 Quiz

Answer: Sophia

Of Elizabeth's thirteen children only her youngest daughter Sophia had survived to be officially named heir to Queen Anne as she was Protestant. But unfortunately Sophia died shortly before Anne's death ending her own chances at becoming Queen.

Answer: Religion

To prevent James Francis Edward Stuart, a Catholic and son of the deposed James II/VII, a great search was conducted to find the nearest Protestant relation. The deal was, in short: "Should Queen Anne and King William III not produce any legitimate children the next in line will be Sophia."

Answer: Great-grandson

George was great-grandson of James I/VI via his daughter Elizabeth.
James I/VI
->Elizabeth
-->Sophia
--->George I

Answer: They hated each other

George II hated his father George I for his treatment of his mother Sophia Dorothea. George II hated his son Frederick due to his popularity and so forth and so forth.

Answer: Princess Charlotte

Following the death of Princess Charlotte only child of George IV and Caroline, George's surviving brothers raced to the altar.
King George IV was married and his only child Charlotte died in childbirth in 1817.
King William I, then Duke of Clarence, had married and had two daughters: Charlotte (who died in March 1819 two months before Victoria's birth) and Elizabeth who died in March 1821.
Edward had married after leaving his mistress of twenty plus years and the marriage produced only Queen Victoria.
Ernest Duke of Cumberland had married and had one child George.
Adolphus Duke of Cambridge married and had three children: George, Augusta, Mary Adelaide (Mary of Teck's mother).
Frederick Duke of York, Charlotte Princess Royal, Elizabeth, Augustus and Mary each were married but neither had children.
Augusta, Sophia, Octavius, Alfred and Amelia never married or had children.

Answer: Nine

They had nine children: Victoria, Edward VII, Alice, Alfred, Helena, Louise, Arthur, Leopold and Beatrice.

Answer: Victoria

All of Victoria and Albert's children did indeed marry and most of them produced children that's true. But of the nine children Victoria "Vicky" married first. At seventeen Vicky married Prince Frederick "Fritz" in 1858. They had Wilhelm, Charlotte, Henry, Sigismund, Viktoria, Waldemar, Sophia and Margaret.

Answer: Buckingham Palace

All except Prince Arthur were born at Buckingham Palace who was born in Windsor Castle. Edward VII was born November 9, 1841 in Buckingham Palace as Albert Edward but chose to reign as Edward VII instead.

Answer: Second sons

Besides the name and the fact that they were father and son George V and George VI were second sons of their respective fathers. George V's elder brother, Albert Victor, died without marrying, thus paving the way for George V to be King. George VI was born Prince Albert Duke of York and his elder brother Edward VIII had abdicated to marry the woman he loved.

Answer: Three

The story goes the then Prince Albert Duke of York had asked the then Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon three times to marry him. On the third asking Elizabeth finally accepted.

Answer: Her father

Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine married Prince Louise of Battenberg in Hesse. While the family was celebrating the wedding her father, Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse, married his mistress Countess Alexandrine von Kolemine. Backlash and pressure from various people forced Louis IV to have his marriage annulled.

Answer: Stuttering

Faced with a stuttering problem the then Prince Albert took speech lessons made famous by the Oscar winning film "The King's Speech". He later developed lung cancer due to a life long habit of smoking.

Answer: His mother

Philip's mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, was diagnosed with schizophrenia something she protested to no end. Due to this "illness" she was unable to make any of her daughter's weddings.

Answer: Eight

The then Princess Elizabeth met Prince Philip at least three times in 1934, 1937 and 1939. After the third meeting in 1939 the thirteen year old Elizabeth declared she was in love.

Answer: Third cousins

They were third cousins and through Queen Victoria were her great-great-grandchildren.
Queen Victoria =m= Prince Albert
-> (by Victoria and Albert) Edward VII, Alice
--> (by Edward VII) George V
--> (by Alice) Victoria
---> (by George V) George VI
---> (by Victoria) Alice
----> (by George VI) Elizabeth II =m= Prince Philip (by Alice)