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![]() ![]() his excessive love & affection gave me feelings of heavenly love & happiness I never could have hoped to have felt before! He clasped me in his arms, & we kissed each other again & again! His beauty, his sweetness & gentleness-really how can I ever be thankful enough to have such a Husband! . I NEVER, NEVER spent such an evening!!! MY DEAREST DEAREST DEAR Albert . She spent the evening after their wedding lying down with a headache, but wrote ecstatically in her diary: They were married on 10 February 1840, in the Chapel Royal of St. Albert and Victoria felt mutual affection and the Queen proposed to him on 15 October 1839, just five days after he had arrived at Windsor. Victoria continued to praise Albert following his second visit in October 1839. She showed interest in Albert's education for the future role he would have to play as her husband, but she resisted attempts to rush her into wedlock. When Victoria complained to Lord Melbourne that her mother's close proximity promised "torment for many years", Melbourne sympathised but said it could be avoided by marriage, which Victoria called a "shocking alternative". Her mother was consigned to a remote apartment in Buckingham Palace, and Victoria often refused to meet her. Though she was queen, Victoria as an unmarried young woman, was required by social convention to live with her mother, despite their differences over the Kensington System and her mother's continued reliance on Sir John Conroy. The wedding of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (later Prince Consort) took place on 10 February 1840 at Chapel Royal, St. The marriage of Charles’ grandfather, James VI-I of Scotland and England married, Anne, the daughter of King Frederik II of Denmark and from this union also descends many of the great royal houses of Europe.Īs I discuss this topic on Monday we will come to see all the myriad ways in which the various royal families are related.10 February 1840 183 years ago ( 10 February 1840) Charles II of England and Scotland was the first cousin of King Louis XIV of France. Their mutual descent from the Electress Sophia made Fritz and Vicky 5th cousins.Įven if you go further back into the British Royal Family’s genealogy, their members frequently married into or chose members from the reigning houses that ruled France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Italy and many others. The next time the Prussians and the British royal family mingled was when Friedrich III’s great aunt, Princess Frederica, married Princess Victoria, the Princess Royal’s great uncle, Prince Frederick, Duke of York. Electress Sophia’s daughter, also named Sophia, married King Friedrich I of Prussia and their son, King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia married his first cousin, Princess Sophia Dorothea of Great Britain. Both were descendants of Sophia of the Rhine (Electress Sophia) and Elector Ernst August of Hanover, the line from which the royal family earned its claim to the throne. ![]() Let us take the marriage of Victoria and Albert’s eldest daughter, Princess Victoria, the Princess Royal, and her marriage to the future Friedrich III, German Emperor and King of Prussia as an example. Today all the reigning royal families are related and this is nothing new. While this is true, in some ways I find it misleading because royals marrying royals is a practice that had been going on for centuries. One of the things I have read frequently is the statement that the descendants of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert married into all the great Royal Houses of Europe. To be more accurate I also am equally interested in the Edwardian Age and the time until the end of the First World War. After sorting out the genealogy of the British Royal Family the era that piqued my interest the most was the Victorian Era. ![]() When I began my interest in royalty, genealogy was the doorway by which I entered. ![]()
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