Simplify the following text for a Grade 18 native English-speaking person.
Original: In 1894 one ceremony brought together Queen Victoria , her son Edward ( future Edward VII ) , her second son Alfred ( Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha ) , her daughter the German dowager Empress Friedrich ( Victoria ) , and many of her grandchildren , such as future Tsar Nicholas and Alexandra of Russia , Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany , and the future King George V of Great Britain .
Simplified: In 1896 one ceremony brought together Queen Victoria , her son Edward ( future Edward VII ) , her second son Alfred ( Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha ) , her daughter the German dowager Empress Friedrich ( Victoria ) , and many of her grandchildren , such as Tsar Nicholas and Alexandra of Russia , Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany , and the future King George V of Great Britain .