Queen Victoria's Children Queen Victoria's Children How many children did Queen Victoria have? Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had 9 children (4 boys and 5 girls). They were: Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise: b.1840, d. 1901 Was given the title Princess Royal because she was the eldest daughter. She married Frederick (Fritz) of Prussia, 1858 and was given the additional title of Empress of Germany. Edward Albert: b. 1841, d.1910. Edward was born on 9 November 1841 as the Duke of Cornwall and the Duke of Rothesay. He became the Prince of Wales a month later because he was next in line to the throne. He married Princess Alexandra of Denmark in 1863. Edward succeeded the British Throne as King Edward VII when Queen Victoria died and reigned until his death on 6th May 1910. Alice Maud Mary: b. 1843, d. 1878 After marrying married Prince Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1862, Alice was given the additional title of Grand Duchess of Hesse-Darmstadt.

Alfred Ernest Albert: b. 1844, d.1900 Was given the title of Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. He married Princess Marie of Russia in 1874. He was the first member of the Royal family to visit Australia. Helena Augusta Victoria: b.1846, d.1923 After marring Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein she was given the the additional title of Princess Helena of Schleswig-Holstein. Louise Caroline Alberta: b.1848, d.1939 After marrying Marquess of Lorne in 1871, was given the the additional title of Dowager Duchess of Argyll Arthur William Patrick Albert: b.1850, d.1942 Known as Duke of Connaught. He married Princess Louise of Prussia Leopold George Duncan Albert: b.1853, d.1884 Knon as Duke of Albany. He married Princess Helena of Waldeck-Pyrmont. Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore: b. 1856, d.

1944 After marrying Prince Henry of Battenberg she was given the additional title of Princess Beatrice of Battenberg. The Royal Family today is related to many European monarchies because of the marriages of Queen Victoria's children. Eight of Victoria's children sat on the thrones of Europe, those of Great Britain, Prussia, Greece, Romania, Russia, Norway, Sweden and Spain. Queen Victoria was survived by 6 children, 40 grandchildren and 37 great-grandchildren, including four future sovereigns of England: Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII and George VI. How Many Children Did Queen Victoria Have and Who Was the Oldest? Queen Victoria , who ruled the United Kingdom from 1837 until her death in 1901, had nine children during her lifetime. The oldest of Victoria’s children was Princess Victoria, Princess Royal, born in 1840. Queen Victoria's Children Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert , had nine children and raised their extensive royal family within the traditions of classic Great British monarchical traditions. The oldest of Victoria’s children, Princess Victoria, Princess Royal, was born in 1840.

Princess Victoria served as Princess Royal beginning in 1841; she later came into the position of German Empress and Queen of Prussia by marrying German emperor Frederick III. The second child was Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales ; he later became King Edward VII. Princess Alice was next; she became Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine through her marriage to a German prince. Princess Alice was a great champion of womens’ causes and nursing as a career for women; she managed field hospitals during her lifetime and publicized her beliefs, earning many supporters for the movement. The next child was Alfred, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who later became Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Ulster, and Earl of Kent. Princess Helena, the fifth child, married a German prince, and the couple stayed in England fairly close to Helena’s parents. Helena worked as her mother’s secretary for many years, and she also became something of the family figurehead, staying active in various royal events and engagements. She was one of the founders of the Red Cross and, like her sister Alice, supported the womens' nursing movement. The next child was Princess Louise, who was a skilled artist.

Like her older sisters, Louise was a supporter of the feminist movement. She eventually married a Marquess who later became Governor General of Canada. After years spent moving from Canada back to Britain, and working as the viceregal consort to her husband, Louise ended up a widow and spent the last years of her life living at Kensington Palace. Prince Arthur, born in 1850, served as General Governor of Canada and was the Canadian Commander-in-Chief’s representative in World War I. He devoted much of his life to performing various duties both royal and military. Prince Leopold became the Duke of Albany. Born in 1853, Leopold died at the young age of 31 due to hemophilia, with which he was diagnosed at his birth. Princess Beatrice, the youngest child of Victoria and Albert, spent her childhood with her recently-widowed mother as a companion. Victoria intended for Beatrice to remain unmarried and to stay with her, but eventually Beatrice was given consent to marry Prince Henry of Batternberg, with whom she had fallen in love. The couple lived with Victoria for the next ten years, at which point Henry died followed closely by Victoria.

Beatrice spent the remainder of her life editing her mother’s journals and making various public appearances on behalf of the royal family. Each of Queen Victoria's nine children, and many of the 42 total grandchildren, married into various royal families across Great Britain, creating a web of family connections that spanned the continent. Queen Victoria's Children and Grandchildren Queen Victoria's Children and Grandchildren Queen Victoria's Children and Grandchildren Family Tree of Britain's Queen Victoria and Prince Albert Queen Victoria and Her Son, the Prince of Wales, 1848. Hulton Archive/Getty Images By Jone Johnson Lewis Updated July 02, 2016. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who married on February 10, 1840 , had nine children. The marriage of the children of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert into other royal families, and the likelihood that her children bore a mutant gene for hemophilia, affected European history.

Children of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert: Victoria Adelaide Mary, Princess Royal (November 21, 1840 - August 5, 1901) Kaiser Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1888 - 1918), married Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein and Hermine Reuss of Greiz Duchess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (1860 - 1919), married Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meinengen Prince Henry of Prussia (1862 - 1929), married Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1864 - 1866) Princess Victoria of Prussia (1866 - 1929), married Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe and Alexander Zoubkoff Prince Waldemar of Prussia (1868 - 1879) Sophie of Prussia, Queen of Greece (1870 - 1932), married Constantine I of Greece Princess Margarete of Hesse (1872 - 1954), married Prince Frederick Charles of

 Hesse-Kassel continue reading below our video 10 Facts About the Titanic That You Don't Know Albert Edward, King of England as Edward VII (November 9, 1841 - May 6, 1910) King George V (1910 - 1936), married Mary of Teck (1867 - 1953) Louise Victoria Alexandra Dagmar, Princess Royal (1867 - 1931), married Alexander Duff, Duke of Fife Princess Victoria Alexandra Olga (1868 - 1935) Princess Maud Charlotte Mary (1869 - 1938), married Haakon VII of Norway Prince Alexander John of Wales (John) (1871 - 1871) Alice Maud Mary (April 25, 1843 - December 14, 1878) Princess Victoria Alberta of Hesse (1863 - 1950), married Prince Louis of Battenberg Elizabeth, Grand Duchess of Russia (1864 - 1918), married Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia Princess Irene of H

esse (1866 - 1953), married Prince Heinrich of Prussia Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (1868 - 1937), married Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (his cousin, a daughter of Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edenburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, a son of Victoria and Albert), Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich Frederick (Prince Friedrich) (1870 - 1873) Alexandra, Tsarina of Russia (Alix of Hesse) (1872 - 1918), married Nicholas II of Russia Mary (Princess Marie) (1874 - 1878) Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh and of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (August 6, 1844 - 1900) married Marie Alexandrovna, Grand Duchess, Russia (1853 - 1920) Prince Alfred (1874 - 1899) Marie of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Queen of Romania (1875 - 1

938), married Ferdinand of Romania Victoria Melita of Edinburgh, Grand Duchess (1876 - 1936), married Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (her cousin, a son of Princess Alice Maud Mary of the United Kingdom, a daughter of Victoria and Albert) Princess Alexandra (1878 - 1942), married Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg Princess Beatrice (1884 - 1966), married Infante Alfonso de Orleans y Borbón, Duke of Galliera Helena Augusta Victoria (May 25, 1846 - June 9, 1923) Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein (1867 - 1900) Prince Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1869 - 1931), never married but fathered a daughter Princess Helena Victoria (1870 - 1948) Princess Maria Louise (1872 - 1956), married Prince Aribert of Anhall Frederick Harold< (1876 - 1876) Louise Caroline Alberta (March 

18, 1848 - December 3, 1939) married John Campbell, Duke of Argyll, Marquis of Lorne (1845 - 1914) married Duchess Louise Margaret of Prussia (1860 - 1917) Princess Margaret of Connaught, Crown Princess of Sweden (1882 - 1920), married Gustaf Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden Prince Arthur of Connaught and Strathearn (1883 - 1938), married Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife (herself a daughter of Princess Louise, granddaughter of Edward VII and great-granddaughter of Victoria and Albert) Princess Patricia of Connaught, Lady Patricia Ramsay (1885 - 1974), married Sir Alexander Ramsay Leopold George Duncan, Duke of Albany (April 7, 1853 - March 28, 1884) married Princess Helena Frederica of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1861 - 1922) Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (1883 - 1981), married Alexander

 Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (she was the last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria) Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884 - 1954), married Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Hostein Were Queen Victoria and Prince Albert both illegitimate?

| Daily Mail Online Were Queen Victoria and Prince Albert both illegitimate? comments A film premiered last night shows the many plots to kill the young Queen Victoria. But her biographer reveals the real story behind this remarkable couple is even more sensational... The day is bright and sunny, and the youthful Queen Victoria, with the handsome young Prince Albert at her side, is trotting through a London park in an open carriage, when - BANG! A gun is fired. Prince Albert slumps over his wife, with blood pouring from him. Victoria and the British Crown have been saved through his noble action, though he is wounded. This is a scene from the film The Young Victoria, which will be released this week, with Emily Blunt as the Queen and Rupert Friend as the Prince Consort. It is not an invented scene, but it is grossly exaggerated. Emily Blunt and Rupert Friend in The Young Victoria What actually happened was that Prince Albert saw a 'theatrical little man' wielding a pistol in the crowd as he and the Queen drove down Constitution Hill in London in her open droshky (low-wheeled carriage). To protect her, he bravely flung himself over his wife, turning his back to the gunman.

In fact, the man pointing his gun was quickly overwhelmed by the crowds. There was no bloodshed and no one was hit by a bullet. On another occasion, when Prince Albert and the Queen were out driving, the Prince saw a different man pointing a gun at them, but it misfired. He told Sir Robert Peel (the Prime Minister) that evening, that he had seen 'a man of the age from 26 to 30, with a shabby hat and of dirty appearance, stretch out his hand and snap a small pistol at the carriage window' from a distance of three or four feet. RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share With what might seem insane bravery (it would not be allowed by security forces today), the Queen resolved to ride out again the following day to see if her would-be assassin might return. He did. The man was the son of a stage carpenter from Covent Garden, and his name was John Francis. And he did indeed pull the trigger, but it misfired once again. There was now enough evidence to arrest him.

When it was suggested that he was mad, the Queen said: 'He was not in the least mad, but very cunning.' He was condemned to death, a sentence which was commuted to penal servitude. Two days later, the Queen was again shot at on her way to the Chapel Royal, this time by a hunchbacked dwarf named John Bean. In the event, he never posed any danger - his pistol was loaded with tobacco and paper. These were only some of the attempts made upon the life of the young Queen Victoria. The last such attack was in 1850, when she was visiting her uncle Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge. As her carriage squeezed through the gateway of his house in Piccadilly, her assailant, an officer in the 10th Hussars, Robert Pate, hit her with his walking stick. An illustration from 1840 titled 'Leap Year' shows Queen Victoria proposing to Prince Albert at Windsor Castle in 1839 He, too, was immediately set upon by the crowds, but this time she had been badly bruised and she bore a scar on her neck for ten years. It was suggested that she cancel a proposed visit to the opera that evening.

She retorted: 'If I do not go, it will be thought I am seriously hurt.' 'But you are hurt, ma'am.' 'Very well, then, every one shall see how little I mind it.' It is an extraordinary fact, as the great Victorian statesman Lord Shaftesbury noted in his journal, that 'the profligate George IV [Victoria's uncle] passed through a life of selfishness and sin without a single proved attempt to take it. This mild and virtuous young woman has, four times already, been exposed to imminent peril'. And although the screenplay of the new film (written by Julian Fellowes) invents the fact that Prince Albert was wounded, the incident in the droshky gives him the opportunity to explain to Victoria why he risked his life for hers. Of course it was a demonstration of his love - and that thrilled her above anything. But more than that, Albert told his young Queen that, while he was replaceable, she was not. For the truth is that, if anyone had succeeded in killing Queen Victoria before she gave birth, it is highly questionable whether the British monarchy would have survived at all.

Not one of her grandfather George III's fat, dissolute sons had managed to produce a robust heir. Her uncle George IV's daughter, Princess Charlotte, died aged 21 in 1817. King William IV, George IV's younger brother who inherited the throne, had ten children by the actress Mrs Jordan. Unfortunately, although they were a strapping, vigorous brood, who went on themselves to breed many an interesting descendant (such as John Julius Norwich the historian and even David Cameron who is the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Mrs Jordan), none was legitimate. Another scene from The Young Victoria. Was there more to the Queen than meets the eye? It meant everything really hung on the dumpling-daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Kent - the princess who would become Queen Victoria. Her father died when she was in her infancy and it is almost impossible to conceive of the paranoia in court circles when she was young that she - and therefore the monarchy - might not survive. Her childhood was a nightmare - her mother kept Victoria under more or less constant supervision.

Even aged 18 she was still not allowed to go up and down stairs without someone holding her hand, and all her food was tasted for poison before she ate it. For a strong-minded girl and young woman, the constraints were all but intolerable. Victoria was kept prisoner by her mother in Kensington Palace. They shared a bedroom until the day she became Queen. She was supervised at every turn either by the Duchess of Kent or by her Governess, the Baroness Lehzen. She was never allowed out to play on her own. In fact, for Victoria, even to have visitors was all but unknown. Like a princess in a German fairy story, she was kept immured in case someone tried to kill her - there was, after all, an air of revolution in Europe and the immense poverty after the Napoleonic Wars made her an even more likely target. In reality, the charming Emily Blunt is not only too pretty to convey what the young Victoria was like; she is too mild-tempered. The actual Victoria was all but bursting with understandable frustration at the hour-by-hour supervision she was forced to endure. Moreover, the future Queen was dominated by the evil genius of Sir John Conroy, Comptroller of the Duchess's household.

Members of William IV's court joked about the 'Conroyal Family' at Kensington Palace, and in later life Queen Victoria told the Duke of Wellington that one reason she hated Sir John was that she had witnessed 'some familiarities' between the Irish soldier and her mother. Victoria was an intelligent - if maddening - woman. Surely she guessed, or feared, that she was Conroy's daughter? The old Duke of Kent, her supposed father, was well 'past it' by the time Victoria was conceived. Moreover, there is the family's curious medical history which we now know, and which surely requires some explanation. Her grandfather, George III, notoriously suffered from the condition known as porphyria, whose symptoms included madness, flatulence, itchy skin and discoloured urine. When the present Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, saw the film of Alan Bennett's play The Madness Of King George, she asked: 'Isn't it hereditary?' A photograph of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert taken in May 1854 Well, the answer is, yes it is, yet not one of Queen Victoria's descendants has ever been recorded as having it. There is another curious medical fact.

We know Queen Victoria passed on haemophilia to her descendants. Seventeen generations of the family on Queen Victoria's mother's side have been investigated by scientists at the Royal Society of Medicine. Not one has haemophilia. Nor was there any haemophilia in the Royal Family before Victoria, so the finger really does point to Queen Victoria's father having been someone other than the Duke of Kent. It must have been the awful Sir John Conroy with that haemophiliac gene. The new film rightly shows his attempts to get Victoria to sign a deed making him the Regent, and her doughty resistance. Did he actually, as in the film, use physical violence on her? The scenes seemed horribly plausible to me, yet her courage in resisting him again reinforced my sense of the extraordinary providence which led us to possessing the matchless blessing of Victoria and Albert and the extraordinary legacy they left us. Strangely enough, there are interesting medical details on the side of Prince Albert, the German cousin Queen Victoria married, which suggest that he, too, may have been illegitimate.

His mother had been dismissed from the court of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha for having an affair with the Jewish chamberlain, the Baron von Mayern, a cultivated, musical, intelligent man. Both Albert's stupid, lecherous, drunken and supposed father, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, and his brother Ernst had hereditary syphilis, but there is no trace of this in the life of Albert who, like the Baron von Mayern, was intelligent, musical and cultivated. Unlike his own Saxe-Coburg relations, he was also a pillar of family rectitude and marital loyalty. But it is not just this extraordinary genetic inheritance of the young Victoria and her prince by which we can see what a slender thread the destiny of our British monarchy hangs. There were also the assassins. It would only have taken one accurate assassin to bring the line more or less to an end. I say more or less, since the crown would have passed to Ernest Augustus Duke of Cumberland, later King of Hanover, and it is hard to imagine that the English monarchy would have survived.

Emily Blunt arriving for the world premiere of the film in London Indeed, I believe that there are good genetic reasons for the survival of the British Royal Family - namely their good mixture of Irish and Jewish stock. Queen Victoria inherited the physical strength and political deviousness of her real father, the Irish Sir John Conroy, and Prince Albert inherited the cleverness of the Baron von Mayern. But even if you do not accept this rather basic genetic explanation of how the royal bloodline proved so resiliently adaptable - something phenomenal happened when the young Victoria chose as her husband one of the best things that ever happened to Britain: Prince Albert. That the monarchy survived the assassins can be attributed to God, or luck. That it survived the changing political climate of the 19th century when so many others went down must be down to Queen Victoria, and her remarkable relationship with Albert - the man who taught her so much. In the opening years of her reign, when she was an unmarried teenager, she made some silly mistakes, thinking for example that she could insult the Tory Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, by refusing his suggestions that a few members of his political persuasion should be represented at court.

She was booed in public and someone cruelly called out 'Mrs Melbourne' when she went to the opera with 'Lord M', the Whig Prime Minister Lord Melbourne, whom she adored in a besotted teenaged-crush. Melbourne, however, was a man of the old Regency days, whose aristocratic hauteur made him a charming dinner companion but a rotten adviser about the condition of England in the late 1830s. Victoria was going to rule over a country which was the first great industrial power in the world. She needed to know about mill towns and coal mines and railways. She needed to be sympathetic to the aspirations of the middle classes. Albert, when he had married her, had great difficulty persuading his headstrong young Queen to adapt to the times, however obsessed she was with him sexually. But eventually he was able to persuade her to mould the constitutional monarchy to the changing politics of Britain. Robert Peel was the inventor of One Nation Toryism. His concern for the middle class, his desire to expand the franchise, and his worries about the conditions of the working classes were shared by Albert.

In the 20th century, when Europe was dominated by crazed dictatorships of Right and Left, the British monarchy stood for all its people. In times of war and in times of national crisis, the monarchy was a source of national unity, rather than being the source of bitter division as it was in Russia. That was very largely the political achievement of Prince Albert, who was also a true Renaissance man, a good composer, a keen sportsman and a patron of the arts. Who would have thought that such a man could have emerged from the tiny, tinpot Duchy of Coburg? From Victoria and Albert and their nine children descended the royal families of Prussia (later Germany), Russia, Spain, Denmark, Greece and Sweden. In so far as monarchy survives at all in Europe, it survives among those of their descendants who learned the lessons of Prince Albert's constitutional liberalism. The eldest child of Victoria and Albert, Crown Princess Vicky, became the mother of German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II, whose militarist policies and determination to build up the German navy led to the outbreak of World War I.

Victoria's letters to her daughter, when Vicky went to Germany and got married, reveal the extent of Prince Albert's vision of a modern federalist Germany, based on democracy. It is one of the great political tragedies of history that Prince Albert died aged 42 and was unable to influence events in Germany and to control his mad grandson Kaiser Bill. I believe that if Prince Albert had lived as long as his wife, until the 20th century, there would have been no World War I, and the tragedies of the 20th century - its genocides, its Bolshevik and fascist tyrannies - would never have happened. The film, The Young Victoria, is a reminder of how incredibly lucky we all were that he lived at all, and of what an irreparable loss was caused by his death. Victoria was mocked for her everlasting mourning for her husband, but even today, most people have failed to see quite what a genius he was. How many children did Queen Victoria have? | Primary Facts How many children did Queen Victoria have? Posted on by James • 2 Comments Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had nine children. Victoria, Princess Royal (the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria) was born in 1840.

She became the Empress of Germany by marrying Frederick III, Emperor of Germany, and she died in 1901. Edward Albert, the Prince of Wales (next in line for the throne) was born in 1841 and in 1863 got married to Princess Alexandra of Denmark. Edward became Edward VII, King of England, following Queen Victoria’s death in 1901. He died in 1910. Alice Maud Mary was born in 1843. She married Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse in 1862. She died in 1878. Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh, was born in 1844. He married Princess Marie of Russia in 1874 and he died in 1900. Helena Augusta Victoria, born in 1846, married Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein and died in 1923. Louise Caroline Alberta was born in 1848. She married John Campbell, Duke of Argyll and Marquis of Lorne in 1871.

She died in 1939 Arthur William Patrick Albert, born in 1850, married Princess Louise of Prussia. He died in 1942. Leopold George Duncan Albert was born in 1853. He married Princess Helena Frederica of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and he died in 1884. Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore was born in 1856. She married Prince Henry of Battenberg and she died in 1944. Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their nine children. Victoria and Albert also had 42 grandchildren and more than 80 great-grandchildren. Prince Albert only got to meet 2 of his grandchildren before his death in 1861, but Queen Victoria lived long enough to meet all of her grandchildren and many of her great-grandchildren. Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, was the last of Victoria’s grandchildren to pass away. She died in 1981 in Kensington Palace aged 97.

Why tyrant Queen Victoria resented her nine 'ugly, frog-like' children | Daily Mail Online Why tyrant Queen Victoria resented her nine 'ugly, frog-like' children comments Queen Victoria was a 'needy' and 'domineering' mother who was so sexually obsessed with her husband Prince Albert that she grew to resent their nine children. A new BBC documentary portrays her as a 'domestic tyrant' whose 'insane' desire to control her children's lives scarred her relationship with them for decades. The three-part series – which draws upon Royal diaries and letters plus interviews with historians and biographers – says Victoria even refused to breastfeed them as babies because she regarded them as 'ugly', 'nasty' and 'frog-like'. Charade: A painting of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their family in 1846, by Franz Xavier Winterhalter Professor Kathryn Hughes, a biographer and historian, said: 'The household was not this chocolate-box image of gorgeousness.

It was a place of simmering tensions.' A lady-in-waiting recalled in her diary an occasion when the Queen's desire to beat her young son Prince Leopold, who was a haemophiliac, was challenged by her own mother. When asked how she could bear to hear the children cry so much, the Queen replied: 'Once you've had nine, Mother, you don't notice any more.' RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share The Queen's strict parenting even shocked Albert. In one letter to her, he wrote: 'It is a pity you find no consolation in the company of your children. The trouble lies in the mistaken notion the function of a mother is to be always correcting, scolding and ordering them about.' Victoria's domineering ways continued even when the children grew up. When her daughter, Princess Vicky, told her she was pregnant by her husband Prince Frederick, Victoria replied she was 'dreadfully upset' by the 'horrid news'.

Royal tour: The Prince of Wales on a royal visit to Bethlehem 150 years ago Queen Victoria's eldest son King Edward VII travelled on an educational trip to the Middle East in 1862 when he was the Prince of Wales The programme suggests that the Queen's behaviour may be due to Albert's own attempts to control his wife. Helen Rappaport, the Royal biographer, says he turned a fun-loving woman into a dutiful German housewife. She said: 'He made her his own creature.' The programme claims the couple were sexually infatuated with each other, but that they would lock themselves away in separate rooms to cool down after rows. Queen Victoria's Children starts on BBC2 on January 1 at 9pm. Future King who brought Bethlehem back to the UK Some of the earliest known photographs of Christ’s birthplace, taken on a Royal Tour of the Middle East in 1862, are to go on display for the first time in 150 years. Experts say the pictures, taken during a visit to Bethlehem by Queen Victoria’s eldest son – later King Edward VII – were intended to help convince the British public of the veracity of the Christmas story.

The photographs – showing views from the Church of the Nativity, believed to occupy the spot where Jesus was born, and the fields where the Angel Gabriel appeared to shepherds – were taken by the pioneering photographer Francis Bedford. Part of the Royal Collection, the photographs will be displayed at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Scotland next year and then at the Queen’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace in 2014. PBS : Empires : Queen Victoria : Her Majesty : Her Children Royal Society Princess Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise (1840-1901) She married Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia in 1858. Friedrich became the emperor of Germany, but died after only three months. Their eldest son became Wilhelm II of Germany (also known as Kaiser Bill of World War I). This obviously caused friction within the Royal Family -- it is claimed that Queen Victoria's favorite grandson was Wilhelm. Princess Victoria had eight children in total. Her daughter Sophie went on to marry a Greek Prince and later became Queen of Greece. Princess Victoria died August 5th, 1901, only eight months after the death of Queen Victoria.

Prince Albert Edward Wettin (1841-1910) Prince Albert became King Edward VII in 1901. He took the family name of his father, Prince Albert, and hence on his coronation the monarchy moved from the House of Hanover to the House of Wettin. In 1917 his son, George V, in an outburst of anti-German feelings engendered by the First World War, changed the name of his house and family from Wettin to Windsor. Victoria and Albert imposed a strict regime upon Edward; this had the opposite effort than the one Victoria and Albert had hoped for, and he rebelled constantly with indulgence in food, drink, women, gambling and sport. He married at the age of 22 to Princess Alexandra of Denmark. She turned a blind eye to his extramarital activities, which continued well into his sixties, despite the fact he was implicated in several divorce cases. He had six children in total -- Albert, George, Louise, Victoria, Maude and John. Maude went onto marry into the Norwegian royal family and became the Queen Consort of Norway.

Princess Alice Maude Mary (1843-1878) When she was 17, Queen Victoria decided it was time for Princess Alice to marry. She personally chose Prince Ludwig and Hesse as an ideal choice for her third daughter. Ludwig went on to become the Grand Duke Louis XIV. Within six months of arranging the introduction, they were married. Unfortunately, the marriage began in the shadow of Prince Albert's death (he had died shortly after arranging the introduction between Alice and Ludwig). Alice went onto to have seven children -- Victoria, Elizabeth, Ernst-Ludwig, Irene, Friedrich Wilheim (Frittie), Alix and Marie. Again, tragedy was to strike with the accidental death of her son Frittie. Alice saw her toddler run to the window. To her horror, she found out too late that the window was not locked. The toddler fell 20 feet and landed on his head. Frittie was dead within a few hours. This lost weighed deeply on Alice and she went through a great depression. She mourned the loss until her own death, and always talked about being reunited with Frittie in heaven. Her daughter Alix married Nicholas II the last Russian tzar.

Prince Alfred Ernest Albert (1844-1900) Prince Alfred married the Grand Duchess Marie, daughter of Tzar Alexander II of Russia. He became the Duke of Saxe-Coburg. His eldest daughter Marie married the crown Prince of Romania, who later became King Ferdinand I. Alfred was probably the most widely travelled of all his brothers and sisters. In fact, he was the first member of the Royal family to visit Australia. Unfortunately, during his in 1868, there was an attempt on his life in Sydney. An Irishman made the attempted assassination, and when it emerged that the would be assassin was a Catholic, it only helped harden bigotry towards the Irish Catholics. Alfred's mother was to outlive him by a year -- his death in 1900 was due to cancer of the throat. Princess Helena Augusta Victoria (1846-1923) Princess Helena was also known as "Lenchen." She was born a "blue baby," possibly because her mother was at the height of anxiety over the loss of her first trusted Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel. In 1866, she married Prince Frederick Christain of Schleswig-Holstein.

Her name lives on in today's royal family -- one of Princess Eugenia's middle names is Helena. Princess Louise Caroline Alberta (1848-1939) Although it's not unusual for British royals to marry outsiders today, this was not the case in 1871, when Princess Louise married John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, a commoner who would later become the Duke of Argyll. Princess Louise was determined when she got to marriageable age not to follow the route her sister had; Princess Victoria had married a German Prince, and her royal duties stopped her from pursuing her artistic aspirations. As it turned out, Princess Louise's engagement to John was supported not only by her mother, but also by Disraeli. Unexpectedly, the match also pleased the British public, which had feared yet another German marriage, which in the general population feelings had already occurred too often. Her husband became prominent in public life as an MP, and later on became governor-general of Canada. It was during this time that Lake Louise near Laffan in the Rocky Mountains was named after her. The couple never had children, but despite this lack in their lives, Louise and John led an active and happy life together.

This was undoubtedly one of the great-unsung royal love matches. When her husband died in 1914, Louise went into mourning -- not quite as severe as her mother's had been for Albert, but severe enough. She became something of a recluse until her own death in 1939 at the age of 91. Prince Arthur William Patrick (1850-1942) Prince Arthur married Princess Louise Margarete of Prussia. It was said that Arthur was the Queen's favorite son. He felt destined for the army from a very early age, and he spent a great many years in the armed forces. He rose in rank and became promoted in 1902 to the rank of Field Marshal. Due to his family ties, as well as interest, he became very involved in German affairs, and this may have been the reasoning behind his transfer in 1911 to Canada, which distanced him from the military aspects of a deteriorating German situation. In Canada, he became the Governor General. He had two daughters and a son.

Their younger daughter, Princess Patricia, is well known to Canadians as Lady Patricia Ramasey, and gave her name to a famous Canadian army regiment, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. The Prince was a freemason. He became Grand Master in 1901 when his brother, who had held that post previously, became King. He served as Grand Master until his death in 1942. Prince Leopold George Duncan (1853-1884) Prince Leopold married Princess Helena Frederica of Waldeck. He was a hemophiliac, and died two years after his marriage. His son became Duke of Saxe-Coburg. He is considered by many to have been the most intelligent and probably most interesting of Victoria's sons. He had an immense thirst for life, which despite his illnesses (he also was an epileptic), studied at Oxford and became friends with Lewis Carroll, John Ruskin and Oscar Wilde. He acted as an unofficial secretary of the Queen, so it is interesting to conject what his influence was on her. His brief experience of happiness during his marriage was cut short by his death.

Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria (1857-1944) Princess Beatrice was only four years old when her father, Prince Albert, died. Almost immediately, Victoria turned to her youngest child as her sole confidant. Victoria's aim was to keep Beatrice at her side at all times, and managed to snuff out an affair that could have happen between Beatrice and Louise Napoleon when Beatrice was 16 years old. She would have to wait a further 11 years before she found her love match in Prince Henry of Battenberg. They meet at a family wedding and quickly fell in love, but Victoria was violently opposed to the engagement, and it took eight months of arguments for Victoria to finally to relent and allow her daughter to marry. The only condition was that they should always live with her in Britain. Henry, who was from a poor German royal family, was only too happy to agree to this. Over the next few years, their only activity was producing children. Unfortunately, Beatrice was to pass on the hemophiliac gene to her sons, and her daughter, Victoria, who became a carrier, too, introduced the gene into the Spanish royal family.

Prince Henry persuaded the Queen to let him leave the country with an expedition to Ashanti in Ghana; he was never to return, as he contracted fatal malaria while in Africa. Beatrice continued a quiet life living in Osborne Palace on the Isle of Wight, and maintained her role as the Queen's confidant. This was something her elder brother, Edward, could never forgive her for, for he felt as the future King, it should have been him who his mother turned to. Consequently, on her death Edward made it difficult for Beatrice to stay at Osborne Palace, and she had to live on a cottage on the estate. She ended her days in bad health, a constant sufferer of rheumatism, and died in 1944 aged 87 years old. Loading Page... Queen Victoria: The real story of her 'domestic bliss' - BBC News BBC News Queen Victoria: The real story of her 'domestic bliss' 1 January 2013 Read more about sharing. Close share panel To the outside world Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their family seemed the embodiment of domestic bliss, but the reality was very different, writes historian Jane Ridley.

The marriage between the two first cousins - the young Queen and the clever, handsome German prince - was a love match. Over 17 years, nine children were born: four boys and five girls. Paintings and photographs projected an image of a virtuous, devoted young couple surrounded by obedient, fair-haired children. Though sexually infatuated, the young couple were locked into a power struggle. Albert took over more and more of Victoria's work as queen as her pregnancies forced her to step aside. Victoria was conflicted: she admired her "angel" for his talents and ability but she deeply resented being robbed of her powers as queen. There were terrible rows and Albert was terrified by Victoria's temper tantrums. Always at the back of his mind was the fear she might have inherited the madness of George III . While she stormed around the palace, he was reduced to putting notes under her door. Though she was a prolific mother, Victoria loathed being pregnant. Repeated pregnancies she considered "more like a rabbit or a guinea pig than anything else and not very nice".

Find out more Queen Victoria's Children is broadcast on BBC Two on Tuesday 1, Wednesday 2, and Thursday 3 January at 21:00 GMT Breastfeeding she especially disliked, finding it a disgusting practice. And she was not a doting mother - she thought it her duty to be "severe". She didn't do affection. Relations with her eldest son Bertie, later Edward VII, were especially fraught. From the start he was a disappointment for Victoria. Like all the royal princes, he was educated at home with a tutor. Bertie did badly at lessons and his parents considered him a halfwit. Victoria remarked: "Handsome I cannot think him, with that painfully small and narrow head, those immense features and total want of chin." When Bertie was 19, he spent time training with the army in Ireland and a prostitute named Nellie Clifden was smuggled into his bed. When the story reached Albert, he was devastated and wrote Bertie a long, emotional letter lamenting his "fall". He visited his son at Cambridge and the two went for a long walk together in the rain. Albert returned to Windsor a sick man and three weeks later he was dead.

Albert probably died of typhoid. Another theory is that he suffered from Crohn's disease , but for years afterwards Victoria blamed Bertie for his death. She could not bear to have him near her. "I never can or shall look at him without a shudder," she wrote. Head of a vast empire Queen Victoria was born on 24 May 1819 Her reign saw huge industrial expansion and the growth of a worldwide empire In 1877 she became empress of India. Her empire included Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and large parts of Africa Life during Queen Victoria's reign For the next 40 years - the rest of her life - Victoria wore black mourning and only appeared in public rarely and reluctantly. To her people, the tiny "widow of Windsor" seemed a pathetic, grief-stricken figure. The truth was very different. Though Victoria was invisible, her need to control her children was almost pathological. She set up a network of spies and informers who reported back to her on her children's doings. When Bertie married the Danish princess Alexandra, Victoria instructed the doctor to report back on every detail of her health, including her menstrual cycle.

Court balls were scheduled so that they did not coincide with Alexandra's periods. Victoria's eldest daughter Vicky married Fritz, the heir to the throne of Prussia, when she was 17. She was the mother of Kaiser William II. Even in faraway Germany, Vicky could not escape her mother's interfering. Victoria wrote almost daily and her micromanaging made her daughter ill with worry. When Vicky announced she was pregnant, Victoria replied: "The horrid news... has upset us dreadfully". Vicky and her younger sister Alice, also married to a German prince, colluded to defy their mother. Secretly, they breastfed their babies. When Victoria discovered, she was furious and called them cows. Image caption Prince Albert's practice of putting up Christmas trees at Windsor became well known in the 1840s Being a daughter of Queen Victoria was like playing an endless game of musical chairs - there was always one who was out of favour. There was always a favourite, too. Victoria's changes of mind were bewildering and her rages could be terrifying. She was not only her children's mother but also their sovereign and she never let them forget it.

She kept her youngest child Beatrice (known as Baby) at home; she was terrified of her mother. Victoria wanted Beatrice to remain unmarried. When Beatrice announced that she was engaged to a handsome German prince, Victoria refused to speak to her for six months and agreed only on condition that the couple lived with her. The rebel was Louise. Flirtatious, attractive and feisty, she refused to marry a German prince. Instead, she chose Lord Lorne, the son of the Duke of Argyll. This turned out to be a mistake - the marriage was childless and unhappy and Lorne was rumoured to be gay. Victoria controlled her sons just as tightly. Leopold, who inherited haemophilia, suffered especially. Victoria described him as "a very common-looking child". Bertie never broke off relations with his mother - and when he eventually succeeded her as king at the age of 59, he did a very good job She tried to make him live the life of an invalid, wrapping him in cotton wool. As a boy, he was bullied by the Highland servant who looked after him, but Victoria refused to listen to Leopold's complaints.

She wouldn't let him leave home but he finally won the long battle to study at Oxford. He died aged 30. Victoria wanted her sons to grow up like Prince Albert. The only one who resembled his father was Prince Arthur, the third of the boys, later Duke of Connaught. He was her favourite - he did what he was told and had a successful military career. The son with whom Victoria quarrelled most was the eldest, Bertie. She once remarked that the trouble with Bertie was that he was too like her. She was right. Like his mother, Bertie was greedy and highly sexed, with an explosive temper. But he possessed one supreme gift - personal charm. As Prince of Wales, Bertie lurched from one scandal to another. In spite of his repeated requests, Victoria never allowed him access to government documents. But the story had an unexpected ending. Bertie never broke off relations with his mother. When he eventually succeeded her as king at the age of 59, he did a very good job. He modernised the monarchy, which was one reason why the British monarchy survived World War I when so many others did not. Perhaps Queen Victoria was not such a bad mother after all.

Jane Ridley's Bertie: A Life of Edward VII is published by Chatto & Windus. Queen Victoria's Children is broadcast on BBC Two on Tuesday 1, Wednesday 2, and Thursday 3 January at 21:00 GMT You can follow the Magazine on Twitter and on Facebook Facts about Queen Victoria for kids Back to the top Who were Victoria's parents? Victoria was the only child of Prince Edward (Duke of Kent) and Princess Victoria Mary Louisa of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Prince Edward (1767-1820) was the fourth son of King George lll. Find out more about Victoria's family tree. Did you know? Both Queen Elizabeth, the Queen today, and her consort (as her husband is known), the Duke of Edinburgh, are great-great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria. When was Queen Victoria born? Queen Victoria was born on the 24 May in 1819. Her father died eight months after she was born. Where was Queen Victoria born? Victoria was born at Kensington Palace, London. Back to the top What name was Victoria christened as? Victoria was christened 'Alexandrina Victoria'.

However, from birth she was formally addressed as Her Royal Highness Princess Victoria of Kent. Did you know? Back to the top When did Victoria become Queen? Queen Victoria came to the throne when she was only 18 years of age on June 20, 1837. Her coronation was a year later on 28 June 1838. Back to the top Who did Queen Victoria marry? At the age of 21, Victoria married her cousin, Albert of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, a German Prince. They married on the 10th February 1840 at the Chapel Royal in St. James's Palace. Victoria had nine children, 40 grand-children and 37 great-grandchildren, scattered all over Europe. Most of Queen Victoria's children married into other royal families of Europe. Back to the top How long exactly did Queen Victoria reign? Queen Victoria reigned for exactly sixty-three years, seven months, and two days (June 20, 1837 - January 22, 1901). Queen Victoria is our longest ever serving monarch. Back to the top How old was Victoria when she inherited the throne?

She inherited the throne at the age of eighteen, upon the death of her uncle William IV who had no legitimate children (children born to married parents). Why did Queen Victoria wear black? Her husband Albert died in 1861 at the young age of 42. She mourned his death for almost 10 years. For the rest of her reign she wore black. Back to the top Where did Queen Victoria live? Queen Victoria had many homes. She lived in Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Osborne House (Isle of Wight) and Balmoral Castle. Queen Victoria was the first monarch to live in Buckingham Palace. Did you know? Victoria was known as the "Grandmother of Europe" because many of her children and grandchildren married into the royal families of other European countries. What hobbies did Queen Victoria have? Queen Victoria loved singing and she enjoyed painting and drawing. She loved going to the opera. How did Britain change whilst Victoria was Queen? Whilst Victoria was Queen there was a tremendous change in the lives of British people: Britain became the most powerful country in the world, with the largest empire that had ever existed, ruling a quarter of the world's population.

The number of people living in Britain more than doubled, causing a huge demand for food, clothes and housing. Factories and machines were built to meet this demand and new towns grew up, changing the landscape and the ways people lived and worked. Railways, originally built to transport goods, meant people could travel easily around the country for the first time. Queen Victoria survived seven assassination attempts When did Queen Victoria die? Queen Victoria died on 22 January, 1901 at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. She was 81. Queen Victoria was survived by 6 children, 40 grandchildren and 37 great-grandchildren, including four future sovereigns of England: Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII and George VI. Where is Queen Victoria buried? She is buried in a mausoleum at Frogmore, Windsor. Back to the top Who became the next King or Queen after Victoria? Queen Victoria was succeeded by her eldest son, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. He became King Edward VII.

Question: How many children did Queen Victoria and Prince Albert have?
Answer: Nine