House of Hanover: Queen Victoria Index (1837 – 1901)

The Family of Queen Victoria in 1887 by Laurits Regner Tuxen; Credit – The Royal Collection Trust

Queen Victoria was a member of the House of Hanover Index.

In the above painting, Queen Victoria is sitting in the Green Drawing Room at Windsor Castle, surrounded by members of her family. On the mantelpiece is a bronze bust of Prince Albert. Queen Victoria commissioned the painting to commemorate the gathering of her family for the Golden Jubilee, celebrating fifty years of her reign.

Many of Queen Victoria’s nine children and forty-two grandchildren married into other European royal families giving Victoria the unofficial title of “Grandmother of Europe.” Her grandchildren sat upon the thrones of Germany/Prussia, Greece, Norway, Romania, Russia, Spain, and the United Kingdom as monarchs or consorts. Through these marriages, Victoria’s daughters and granddaughters transmitted the genetic disease hemophilia to other royal families, although the disease appears to have died out. Victoria’s descendants currently sit upon the thrones of Denmark, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

Family of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom

Queen Victoria’s Extended Family

Weddings of Queen Victoria and Her Children

Queen Victoria Miscellaneous Articles

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