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H.M. (Alexandrina) Victoria (Hanover), Queen of the United Kingdom

H.M. (Alexandrina) Victoria (Hanover), Queen of the United Kingdom

Female 1819 - 1901  (81 years)

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  1. 1.  H.M. (Alexandrina) Victoria (Hanover), Queen of the United KingdomH.M. (Alexandrina) Victoria (Hanover), Queen of the United Kingdom was born on 24 May 1819 in Kensington Palace, London, England; died on 22 Jan. 1901 in Osborne House, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England; was buried in Royal Mausoleum, Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, England.

    Other Events:

    • Regnal Name: Victoria
    • Coronation: 28 June 1838, Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England
    • Hereditary Title: 1837 – 1877; By the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith
    • Hereditary Title: 1877 – 1901; By the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India

    (Alexandrina) married H.R.H. Prince (Francis) Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha), of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom on 10 Feb. 1840 in Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, London, England. (Francis) was born on 26 Aug. 1819 in Schloss Rosenau, Coburg; died on 14 Dec. 1861 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England; was buried in Royal Mausoleum, Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. H.M. Edward VII Albert Edward (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha), King of the United Kingdom  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 9 Nov. 1841 in Buckingham Palace, London, England; died on 6 May 1910 in Buckingham Palace, London, England; was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  H.M. Edward VII Albert Edward (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha), King of the United KingdomH.M. Edward VII Albert Edward (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha), King of the United Kingdom Descendancy chart to this point (1.(Alexandrina)1) was born on 9 Nov. 1841 in Buckingham Palace, London, England; died on 6 May 1910 in Buckingham Palace, London, England; was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England.

    Other Events:

    • Regnal Name: Edward VII
    • Coronation: 9 Aug. 1902, Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England
    • Hereditary Title: 22 Jan. 1901 – 6 May 1910; By the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India

    Edward married H.R.H. Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julie (zu Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg), of Denmark on 10 March 1863 in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England. Alexandra (daughter of H.M. Christian IX (zu Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg), King of Denmark and H.H. Princess Luise Wilhelmine Friederike Caroline Auguste Julie (von Hessen-Kassel), of Hesse-Cassel) was born on 1 Dec. 1844 in Yellow Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark; died on 20 Nov. 1925 in Sandringham House, Norfolk, England; was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 3. H.M. George V Frederick Ernest Albert (Windsor), King of the United Kingdom  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 3 June 1865 in Marlborough House, Pall Mall, London, Middlesex, England; was christened on 7 July 1865 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England; died on 20 Jan. 1936 in Sandringham House, Sandringham, Norfolk, England; was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England.


Generation: 3

  1. 3.  H.M. George V Frederick Ernest Albert (Windsor), King of the United KingdomH.M. George V Frederick Ernest Albert (Windsor), King of the United Kingdom Descendancy chart to this point (2.Edward2, 1.(Alexandrina)1) was born on 3 June 1865 in Marlborough House, Pall Mall, London, Middlesex, England; was christened on 7 July 1865 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England; died on 20 Jan. 1936 in Sandringham House, Sandringham, Norfolk, England; was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England.

    Other Events:

    • Regnal Name: George V
    • Hereditary Title: From 6 May 1910 to 20 Jan. 1936; By the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India
    • Hereditary Title: From 6 May 1910 to 1927; By The Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland, and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India
    • Coronation: 22 June 1911, Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England

    Notes:

    GEORGE V ‘By the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland, and of the Br Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India,’ GEORGE FREDERICK ERNEST ALBERT (probably) WIPPER (but possibly WETTIN) later WINDSOR (to which changed 1917 on the advice of officials, the dominant influence among whom was Lord (1st and last Baron) Stamfordham (see 1931 edn), despite the existence of (a) the Earldom of Windsor as one of the subsidiary titles of the Marquess of Bute (qv) and (b) the Viscountcy of Windsor and (c) the Barony of Windsor, both subsidiary titles of the Earls of Plymouth (qv), whose family name had been Windsor till 1833, after which it became Windsor-Clive), previously of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha but from 1917 of the House of Windsor, KG (1884), KT (1893), KP (1897), GCMG (1901, Grand Master 1905), GCSI (1905), GCIE (1905), GCVO (1897), ISO (1893), PC (GB 1894, I 1897), Roy Victorian Chain 1902; b Marlborough House Pall Mall London SW1 3 June 1865 (bapt Windsor Castle 7 July 1865); s f 6 May 1910; RN: Cadet 1877, Midshipman 1880, Sub-Lt 1884, Lt 1885, Cdr 1891, Copt 1893, R-Adml 1901, V-Adml 1903, Adml 1907, Adml of the Fleet 1910, Adml Danish and Swedish Navies; Gen 1902, FM 1910, Personal ADC to TM QUEEN VICTORIA 1887–1901 and EDWARD VII 1901–10, Col-in-Ch: RM, Life Gds, RHG, 1st Roy Dragoons, 10th Roy Hus, Roy Regt Artillery, RE, Gren Gds, Coldstream Gds, Scots Gds, Irish Gds, Welsh Gds, KORR, King's Regt, Roy Fus, Norfolk Regt, Roy Welch Fus, Black Watch, KRRC, Queen's Own Cameron Hldrs, Roy Irish Fus, RTC, OTC, Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeo, Norfolk Yeo, Suffolk Yeo, 108th Field Bde, 8th Bn Hants Regt, Manchester Regt, W African Frontier Force, KAR, RFC and RAF (Ch RAF 1919) and (in the IA) Skinner's Horse, 8th King George's Own Light Cav, 18th King Edward's Own Cav, 5th King Edward's Own Cav, 18th King Edward's Own Cav, 5th King Edward's Own Probyn's Horse, 19th King George's Own Lancers, 21st King George's Own Centl India Horse, 1st Sappers and Miners, 11th Sikh Regt, 1st Madras Pioneers, 4th Bombay Grens, 10th Baluch Regt, 1st Gurkha Rifles, 2nd Gurkha Rifles, Capt-Gen and Hon Col HAC, Hon Col 3rd Bn W Yorks Regt, Roy Canadian Dragoons, 43rd Canadian Inf, Roy Malta Artillery, 8th (Zamora) Inf Regt Spain, Hon Memb HAC Massachusetts, FM Japanese Army; Bailiff Grand Cross OStJ, Kt: Golden Fleece Spain, St Andrew Russia, Elephant Denmark, Annunziata and Savoy Italy; Hon LLD: Cantab 1894, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, McGill, Laval, Toronto, Queen's Coll Kingston (Ontario) 1901, U of Wales 1902, London 1903, Glasgow 1907; Hon DCL Oxon 1897, DLitt Sheffield 1909, Chllr Cape U 1901 and U of Wales 1902, Bencher Lincoln's Inn 1892 (Treas 1903), Er Bro Trin Ho, Ld Warden Cinque Ports and Constable Dover Castle 1905–07, Hon FRCS, Patron RCM and RAM, Ranger Windsor Gt Pk 1917; m Chapel Royal St James's Palace 6 July 1893 his cousin HSH PRINCESS (VICTORIA) MARY (MAY) AUGUSTA LOUISA OLGA PAULINE CLAUDINE AGNES, LG (d 1953), only dau of HH THE DUKE OF TECK, GCB, GCVO, by HRH PRINCESS MARY ADELAIDE WILHELMINA ELIZABETH, yr dau of HRH 1st DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE (s of GEORGE III), and d Sandringham 20 Jan 1936, having had [issue].”

    George married H.S.H. Princess Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes (Württemberg), of Teck on 6 July 1893 in Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, London, England. Victoria (daughter of H.H. Francis Paul Charles Louis Alexander (Württemberg), 1st Prince and Duke of Teck and Princess Mary Adelaide Wilhelmina Elizabeth (Hanover), of Cambridge) was born on 26 May 1867 in Kensington Palace, London, England; died on 24 March 1953 in Marlborough House, Pall Mall, London, Middlesex, England; was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 4. H.M. Edward VIII Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David (Windsor), King of the United Kingdom  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 23 June 1894 in White Lodge, Richmond Park, London, England; died on 28 May 1972 in Bois de Boulogne, Paris, France; was buried in Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, England.
    2. 5. H.M. George VI Albert Frederick Arthur George (Windsor), King of the United Kingdom  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 14 Dec. 1895 in York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk, England; died on 6 Feb. 1952 in Sandringham House, Sandringham, Norfolk, England.


Generation: 4

  1. 4.  H.M. Edward VIII Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David (Windsor), King of the United KingdomH.M. Edward VIII Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David (Windsor), King of the United Kingdom Descendancy chart to this point (3.George3, 2.Edward2, 1.(Alexandrina)1) was born on 23 June 1894 in White Lodge, Richmond Park, London, England; died on 28 May 1972 in Bois de Boulogne, Paris, France; was buried in Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, England.

    Other Events:

    • Regnal Name: Edward VIII
    • Decoration: 1910; Companion of the Imperial Service Order (I.S.O.)
    • Decoration: 1910; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
    • Decoration: 1916; Military Cross (M.C.)
    • Decoration: 1917; Grand Master and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (G.C.M.G.)
    • Decoration: 1917; Grand Master and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (G.B.E.)
    • Decoration: 1920; Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (G.C.V.O.)
    • Decoration: 1921; Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (G.C.I.E.)
    • Decoration: 1921; Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India (G.C.S.I.)
    • Decoration: 1921; Royal Victorian Chain (R.V.C.)
    • Decoration: 1922; Knight of the Order of the Thistle (K.T.)
    • Decoration: 1927; Knight of the Order of St. Patrick (K.P.)
    • Decoration: 1936; Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (G.C.B.)
    • Hereditary Title: 20 Jan. – 11 Dec. 1936; By the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India
    • Hereditary Title: 8 March 1937 – 28 May 1972; 1st and last Duke of Windsor [U.K., 1937]

    Edward married Wallis Warfield on 3 June 1937 in Château de Candé, Monts, France. Wallis (daughter of Teackle Wallis Warfield and Alice Montague) was born on 19 June 1896 in Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.; died on 24 April 1986 in Bois de Boulogne, Paris, France; was buried in Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore, Windsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  H.M. George VI Albert Frederick Arthur George (Windsor), King of the United KingdomH.M. George VI Albert Frederick Arthur George (Windsor), King of the United Kingdom Descendancy chart to this point (3.George3, 2.Edward2, 1.(Alexandrina)1) was born on 14 Dec. 1895 in York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk, England; died on 6 Feb. 1952 in Sandringham House, Sandringham, Norfolk, England.

    Other Events:

    • Regnal Name: George VI
    • Coronation: 12 May 1937, Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England
    • Hereditary Title: 1936 – 1948; By the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India
    • Hereditary Title: 1948 – 1952; By the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith

    Albert married Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon on 26 April 1923 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. Elizabeth (daughter of Claude George (Bowes-Lyon), 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and Nina Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck) was born on 4 Aug. 1900 in St. Paul's Walden Bury, Hertfordshire, England; died on 30 March 2002 in Royal Lodge, Windsor, Berkshire, England; was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 6. H.M. Elizabeth II Alexandra Mary (Windsor), Queen of the United Kingdom  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 21 April 1926 in London, England; died on 8 Sept. 2022 in Balmoral Castle, Crathie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
    2. 7. H.R.H. Princess Margaret Rose (Windsor), of the United Kingdom  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 21 Aug. 1930 in Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland; died on 9 Feb. 2002 in London, England; was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England.



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