senior descendant of victoria albert is he really the senior male line dynastic descendant of victoria albert prince richard duke of gloucester is the most senior male line male descendant of victoria albert as he is the surviving son of prince henry duke of gloucester and as the duke's two elder brothers edward and albert who reigned as george vi had no sons is since the death of his elder brother william in the senior male line male grandchild of george v who was the surviving son of edward vii the first son of victoria albert prince andreas is a descendant of leopold duke of albany who was victoria and albert's fourth son and edward vii's youngest brother thus he can't be considered as the senior male line descendant of victoria and albert but through dynastic changes in succession with renounciation of rights to the throne of coburg by the future edward vii and the prince arthur duke of connaught he is the current titular duke and thus is with no doubt the head of the house of saxe coburg and gotha nonethelles his british cousins from the windsor family are agnatically senior to his family we can say that prince andreas is the senior male line descendant of prince albert in right of the former realm of saxe coburg and gotha as the elder lines of his descendants thourgh edward vii and arthur duke of connaught now extinct in male line renounced their rights to it but definitely he is not prince albert's senior male line descendant in general