Victoria's Descendants Trivia Quiz

Answer: Great great grandchildren.

Elizabeth II's father was George VI, his father was George V, who was the son of Edward VII, Victoria's second child, eldest son and heir. Philip's mother was Princess Alice of Battenburg, who was the daughter of Princess Victoria of Hesse, whose mother was another Princess Alice, Victoria's second daughter and third child.

Answer: Russia.

Victoria's granddaughter Alix married Tsar Nicholas II, and their son Alexis should have become Tsar of all the Russia's. The Spanish King Juan Carlos is another great great grandchild of Victoria. Margrethe Queen of Denmark, is descended from Victoria's son Arthur Duke of Connaught, whilst Norway's monarchs are the descendants of Edward VII, Victoria's successor.

Answer: Marie.

Marie, Victoria Melita, Alexandra, and Beatrice were all sisters and granddaughters of Queen Victoria. Consequently they were first cousins of King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II and through their mother Tsar Nicholas II. Marie, known as "Missy" in the family went onto become Queen of Romania.

Answer: Victoria Melita.

Victoria Melita "Ducky," married first her cousin Ernst Grand Duke of Hesse but they divorced in 1901, after the death of Victoria their mutual grandmother. In 1905, she married another first cousin Grand Duke Cyril of Russia, both managed to escape after the Revolution. Alexandra "Sandra" married Prince Ernest of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, and Beatrice "Baby Bee" married the Infante Alfonso of Spain.

Answer: Louise.

Louise married the Duke of Argyll but produced no grandchildren for her mother. Leopold married Princess Helena of Waldeck, and had two children Alice and Charles. Helena married and had five children, whilst Arthur the Duke of Connaught had three children, one of whom became Sweden's crown princess.

Answer: Princess Irene and Prince Ernest Grand Duke of Hesse

Princess Irene married her first cousin Prince Henry of Prussia, who was a brother of Kaiser Wilhelm, she lived a long life, not dying until 1953, when she was well into her eighties. Prince Frederick suffered from haemophilia, and tragically fell out of a window, when playing in their palace and died of a haemorrhage at only two years old. Mary died aged four, when a diphtheria epidemic swept through the palace in Hesse-Darmstadt, the same epidemic also carried off her mother Alice. Ernest died naturally in 1937, just two weeks before a plane crash that killed his wife, his son and daughter in law (who was also his great niece) and their two young children, as they travelled to the wedding of his younger son.

The other siblings in this unlucky family were Alix who became the Tsarina and Elisabeth "Ella," who married Grand Duke Serge of Russia.

These sisters were both murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918.

Answer: Gustav VI of Sweden and Louise Mountbatten.

Louise Mountbatten was a great grand daughter of Queen Victoria, and Aunt to Prince Philip, the husband of Elizabeth II. Gustav of Sweden, however, though not a descendant of the Queen married into her family twice. His first wife Margaret the mother of his children was a grand daughter of Victoria, as were Henry of Prussia and Irene of Hesse.

Another grandchild was Arthur of Connaught, his wife was Victoria's great grand daughter, and a grandchild of Edward VII. King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain are, like Elizabeth II and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh both great great grandchildren of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

Answer: Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Prince Albert husband to Queen Victoria, died on December 14, 1861, by which point only his eldest daughter Vicky had children, with Wilhelm born in 1859. Victoria was devastated by Albert's death, and went into a long period of mourning. Of the other mentioned grandchildren Victoria was born in 1863, Albert Victor in 1864, and Margaret not until 1882.

Answer: Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg.

Prince Alfred shot himself after falling in love with a commoner and meeting with the disapproval of his parents. Marie Louise married Prince Aribet of Anhalt, and after a disastrous marriage they were divorced, with the sympathy falling with Marie. Alexander of Carisbrooke, was a son of Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenburg, and changed his family name in WW1. Charles Edward, was born after his father Leopold died and was Duke of Albay from birth, after his uncle Alfred's death in 1900 (father of Alfred who committed suicide), he was created Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha. Charles Edward fought for the Germans in WWI, and after the armistice had his British titles stripped from him. Charles Edward also supported the German Nazi party.

Answer: 3.

Of the five, only Edward VII and his grandson Edward VIII, were expected to become the monarch from birth. George V had an elder brother Albert Victor who was supposed to become the King, however, he died of typhoid fever in 1892 without issue. Edward VIII the eldest child of George V was expected to succeed (which he did briefly in 1936) and produce children. Thus his brother George VI (born 1895) and his niece Elizabeth II (born 1926), both before the abdication crisis never believed that they would inherit the crown of England.

Answer: The royal mob.

Victoria had forty grandchildren, and at various times such as weddings, many of them would converge together, giving rise to the term.

Answer: Alice and Beatrice.

It was through Alice that haemophilia eventually spread into the Russian royal family, as her daughter, Alix, was also a carrier.

Answer: Alfred.

Alfred, Victoria's second son married Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna. This was the only time that the child of a British monarch has married the child of a Russian Tsar. Helena, Arthur, and Leopold all married Germans.

Answer: The children of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.

Dr. X was having an affair with the Edinburgh children's nurse. Once when the Duchess was away for some length of time, the girls would lunch with both tutor and nurse who would sit at opposite ends of the table, their views of one another obstructed by a large pot placed in its position by the Duchess. Soon the pot was removed to a sideboard, the young girls protested that their mother had put it their and only she could remove.

The irate tutor eventually got so cross with their cries that he exclaimed 'It is either I or the pot,' Princess Victoria Melita or Ducky, grabbed the pot close to her chest and shouted 'we prefer the pot.' Dr. X with as much dignity as he could muster left the room, and the entire meal was then spent in icy silence, though the other girls were secretly delighted with their sisters courage.

Answer: Alice, Alfred and Leopold.

Alice died first in 1878 having contracted typhoid, a disease which had already killed her own daughter Marie. Leopold died in 1884, after suffering a fall in Cannes, and Alfred died in 1900 less than a year before his mother. Of the others Helena survived until 1923, Louise until 1939, and Arthur until 1942.

Answer: Prince Leopold.

Leopold had ironically been given the Scottish name Duncan, yet hated the country, primarily because his personal Valet Archie Brown the brother of the infamous John, used to bully the sickly Prince. Leopold also resented being forced to stay with his mother throughout the summer at Balmoral whilst his brothers were given more freedom.

Answer: George VI of England.

Victoria's great grandson Albert (the future George VI) was born on the December 14, 1895, and The Queen, was forced to admit that perhaps the unlucky spell of the date for her family had been broken.
George II of Greece's younger brother Paul who would himself become the Greek King and another Great Grandson of Victoria's was also born on the same date in 1901.

Answer: Alexander I of Greece.

Tatiana, the daughter of Nicholas II, and her Aunt Ella were both murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918. Lord Louis Mountbatten, Tatiana's cousin, was assassinated by the IRA in 1979. Alexander I was not murdered, however, his grandfather George I was assassinated in 1918.

Answer: Sandringham.

Claremount was brought as a home for Prince Leopold, though only after much bitterness from the Queen who resented Leopold's desire for independence, and from Leopold who became infuriated by his mothers pettiness towards him. Bagshot, has long been used as a residence for members of the royal family, George III's daughter the Duchess of Gloucester lived there, as did Victoria's son Arthur. Prince Edward the son of Elizabeth II and his wife Sophie have also used Bagshot as a home. Osbourne, was brought by Victoria and Albert as a retreat from London, but was hated by the future Edward VII, who turned it into a royal naval college when he became King. Sandringham was brought for him and his wife Alexandra of Denmark; traditionally the royal family spent Christmas there.

Answer: Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone.

Born HRH Princess Alice of Great Britain and Albany, Alice died just before her 98th birthday at Kensington Palace. Alice was 17 when her grandmother died and knew her well. Lady Patricia Ramsay, daughter of Prince Arthur, died in 1974, Leopold of Battenburg, son of Princess Beatrice died in 1922, and Sophie who became Queen of Greece and was the sister of Kaiser Wilhelm died in 1932.

The first grandchild of Victoria's to die was Prince Sigismund, son of Vicky who died in 1866 aged just two, 115 years before his cousin Alice. With Alice's death, an era truly died with her.