Queen Victoria's Children Trivia Quiz

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.

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.

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!'

Answer: All of these

The theologian Alice was friends with maintained that the Bible could not be taken as the direct word of God, and Alice concurred. This alone, in Augusta's opinion, was enough to condemn Alice as an atheist.
The Queen of Prussia must have had apoplexy when she found out that Alice, having heard a lady-in-waiting pray to providence to save Bertie's life when he was dying of typhoid in 1871, snorted in reply 'Providence! There's no such thing!'

Answer: Princess Alexandra of Denmark

Alix and Affie were the same age, and Affie had hoped that Bertie would turn her down so he could marry her himself.
All in all, the match with Marie was a disaster. The Grand Duchess was furious that the Princess of Wales, daughter of the king of a minor country like Denmark, took precedence over her, the only daughter of the mighty Tsar Alexander II of Russia.
Quite apart from this arrogance, Marie was also plain and dowdy. Ironically, the daughters of her beautiful arch-enemy, the Princess of Wales, were all plain and lethargic ('their royal shynesses') while Marie's four Edinburgh girls was all pretty and glamorous.

Answer: It lasted over 50 years

Helena, Affie's favourite sister, was a tomboy. The sensible girl of the family, she shuddered at the thought of spending the rest of her life looking after her increasingly cantankerous old mother, so in 1866 she married Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein.

The marriage lasted 51 years until Christian died in 1917, aged 86. it was not a love match, but both of them realised that they could live in perfect harmony with each other, and that they did. Lenchen's life is sometimes called boring, but she never once complained.

Answer: Be publicly educated in something

The non-conformist of the family, Louise was also the most talented artist. The Queen allowed her to attend art college, and one of her busts of her brother Arthur was put in the National Gallery.
She did indeed marry a commoner, Lord Lorne, later Duke of Argyll, in 1871, but she was not the first English princess to do so. In 1515, Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII, married the Duke of Suffolk.
Also of note, Louise, unconventional to the end, became the first English princess to be cremated. Recently, Princess Margaret Rose, sister of Queen Elizabeth II, was also cremated after her death in 2002.

Answer: Governor-General of Canada

Louise went with him to Ottawa, of course, and a Canadian province was actually called after her middle name, Alberta.
Unfortunately, though initially happy with the change of scene, Louise soon grew bored of Canada and left for England for extended periods, leading to (justified) rumours about the state of her marriage to Lorne.

Answer: 4th Cousins

Alix's mother Louise was descended from King George II of Great Britain, Bertie's great-great-great-grandfather, through his daughter, Mary, who married the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel.

Answer: Wellington

Arthur was made Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and Earl of Sussex in 1874. Always of a military temperament, Arthur soon became a soldier and was once President of the Football Association. When he died aged 91 in 1942, he was (and still is) the longest lived prince of British royal blood.

Answer: Princess Louise of Prussia

Queen Victoria was delighted with her new daughter-in-law, and instantly dubbed her 'Looisichen' (Loo-ease-ee-shen - I think!). She was the daughter of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia, Fritz's cousin, who reputedly boxed his wife Marianne's ears because she kept having girls.
The marriage was happy, but Louise died in 1917, and Arthur outlived her by 25 years.

Answer: The Queen's private secretary

Not unreasonably, Bertie wasn's happy about this. He was irritated that Leopold, 12 years younger than him, was allowed access to state papers in his capacity as the Queen's unofficial private secretary, that he, the heir to the throne, was not permitted to see. Thankfully, the rift did not last long, partly due to the fact that Leopold was Alix's favourite brother-in-law.

Answer: She had thought Beatrice would look after her until she died

It wasn't unusual in those days for the youngest daughter to stay behind to look after her parents. In fact, Lenchen only married to avoid this fate. Between Lenchen's marriage and Beatrice's maturity, Louise reluctantly fulfilled this role for which she was most unsuited.
In any case, Beatrice refused to let her mother bully her, and gave the Queen the silent treatment until she was allowed to marry Liko (provided they lived in England). Liko soon charmed the old Queen, who had always had a soft spot for handsome men.

Answer: A smoking room

Like Bertie and Lenchen's husband, Christian, Liko was a smoker. Unfortunately, the Queen hated the habit and banned it in her household. Liko used his easy charm to have the Queen install a billiard room where he (and Bertie and Christian) could smoke freely.
But he remained bored, and spent more time with his children than Beatrice, who was just as unmaternal as her mama. In the end, he joined the British Army in Africa, and died of a fever.

Answer: Arthur, Louise and Beatrice

Louise died in 1939, aged 90, Arthur in 1942 aged 91 and Beatrice in 1944 aged 87. Of the others, the first to go was Alice, of diphtheria in 1878. Hemophiliac Leopold in 1884. Affie followed in 1900. Vicky lost a valiant battle against spinal cancer in 1901, and died six months after the Queen. Bertie surprised everyone and lived on till 1910, while Lenchen was 77 at her death in 1923. Of the in-laws, the first to go was Fritz, of throat cancer in 1888, then Louis of Hesse in 1892, Liko in 1896, Lorne in 1914, Louise and Christian in 1917, Marie in 1920, Helene in 1922 and lastly Alix in 1925.