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• Occupation: Queen of England reigned 1837 to 1901
• Stories and Notes: Movie Title: The Young Victoria Starring: Emily Blunt as Queen Victoria, and Rupert Friend as Prince Albert Released: 2009 Production: GK Films
• Stories and Notes: Named Alexandrina Victoria but known as Victoria, she was the only child of Edward Duke of Kent and Victoria Saxe-Coburg. Her father died when she was 1 year old and her domineering mother kept her away from her ‘wicked’ uncles Kings George and William. She had a sheltered upbringing, and came to the throne shortly after her 18th birthday in 1837 on the death of her uncle William IV who had no surviving legitimate children. She was at the time unmarried and not crowned until June 28, 1838. In February 1840 she married her cousin and love of her life Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
• Stories and Notes: The British Empire was at the height of its power and she ruled over 450 million people, one quarter of the world’s population and approximately one quarter of the work’s landmass. It stretched so far around the globe from Canada to the Caribbean, Africa, India, Australia and New Zealand that it was said that the sun never set on the British Empire. India was Jewel in the Crown and in 1876 she was given the title Empress of India. The Victorian era was a time of immense industrial, political, trade, scientific and military progress for Great Britain. In her early years she was dependent on her Prime Minister Lord Melbourne and her uncle King Leopold of Belgium for advice, but increasingly her husband Albert became her main advisor. He was involved in organising the Great Exhibition in 1851, and persuaded her to take a more constitutional role in leaving the rule of the nation and Empire to Parliament. She was strong willed and her relations with her prime ministers ranged from the affectionate (Melbourne and Disraeli) to the stormy (Peel, Palmerston, and Gladstone).
• Stories and Notes: Victoria and Albert had four sons, five daughters and 42 grandchildren who were married to royalty across Europe making her the ‘grandmother of Europe’. Her daughter Victoria was mother of the German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II, and her grand-daughter Alexandria was the wife of Nicholas II Emperor and last Tzar of Russia. The death of Albert from typhoid in 1861 plunged Victoria into mourning and she withdrew almost completely from public life spending her time at Balmoral Castle in Scotland and Osborne house on the Isle of Wight where she spent time with her favourite Scottish servant John Brown. This encouraged republican sentiments and she was the target of several assassination attempts. However she kept control of affairs, refusing her son Edward, Prince of Wales (who became Edward VII) any active role. Her golden jubilee in 1887 and diamond jubilee in 1897 regained her popular support and matriarchal role as Queen of the nation and Empire. She died at Osborne House on 22 January 1901, and was buried at Windsor. Her reign lasted 63 years and 7 months which is the second longest of any British monarch.
• To Lady Kathleen: 14 x cousin 6 times removed

Victoria married Prince Of Saxe - Coburg - Gotha Albert Augustus Wettin on 10 Feb 1840 in Chapel Royal, St.James Palace, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom. Albert was born on 26 Aug 1819 in Schloss Rosenau, Coburg, Germany; died on 14 Dec 1861 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. King of England Edward Wettin was born on 9 Nov 1841 in Buckingham Palace, St.James Park, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom; died on 6 May 1910 in Buckingham Palace, St.James Park, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom.
2. Princess of England Alice Maud Mary Wettin was born on 25 Apr 1843 in Buckingham Palace, St.James Park, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom; died on 14 Dec 1878 in Neues Palais, Darmstadt, Germany.

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• Occupation: Duke of Kent in England

Edward married Princess of Saxe - Coburg Victoria Mary Louisa on 11 Jul 1818 in Kew Palace, Kew, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. Victoria was born on 17 Aug 1786 in Coburg, , Bayern, Germany; died on 16 Mar 1861 in Frogmore House, Windsor, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Princess of Saxe - Coburg

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• Occupation: Kign of England Reigned 1750 to 1820
• Stories and Notes: George III, unlike his father and grandfather, was born in England. He became heir to the throne when his father Frederick, Prince of Wales, died in 1751 from a lung abscess (believed to be caused by a blow on the chest from a cricket ball) before he could succeed his father. George was shy and stubborn but well educated in science and arts. He became King George III in 1760 following the death of his grandfather. In 1761, after an official search for a suitable wife, he married Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz whom he first met on his wedding day. The couple enjoyed a happy marriage and he never took a mistress. They had 16 children including George (later George IV) and William (who became William IV) and they were married for 57 years. In 1762 he purchased Buckingham House in London which later became Buckingham Palace. George had high moral standards, and appalled by the loose morals of his brothers introduced the Royal Marriage Act in 1772 which made it illegal for members of the Royal Family to marry without the consent of the Sovereign. He was interested in agricultural improvement, and during his reign there were advances in manufacturing mechanisation including the spinning frame and steam engine. George was determined to be thrifty with his own and public expenses. He handed Parliament the right of income from Crown Estates in return for a Civil List annuity for the support of his household and expenses, an arrangement that continues today. Britain had been fighting a colonial war against France since 1756 with military success but at high financial cost. George appointed Lord Bute to negotiate the Treaty of Paris in 1762 to end the Seven years war. This caused patriotic outrage for the concessions it gave to the French including the rights of French colonists in North America to remain in Quebec and New Orleans. Lord North became Prime Minister determined to make the colonies pay for their own security. The Stamp Act of 1765 levied a tax on every official document in the British colonies and high customs duties introduced. These were mostly repealed in the face of American protests, with the exception of the tax on tea. In 1773 colonists threw chests of tea overboard in Boston harbour in a protest know as the ‘Boston tea party’. The American War of Independence began in April 1775 when colonists fought British troops at Lexington. George Washington was appointed commander of the Continental Army. On 4 July 1776 the Continental Congress under leadership of John Hancock declared independence. Fighting continued until 1781 when the British were defeated by Americans and French at Yorktown. In the Treaty of Paris in 1783 Britain agreed to recognise American independence. King George took the loss badly and considered abdication before facing the political and military realities. 1788 he suffered his first attack of insanity (now believed to be the result of the inherited disease porphyria) which was to plague him for the rest of his life. His son George, Prince of Wales, was made temporary regent an arrangement which became permanent in 1810. In 1789 France was shaken by revolution and King Louis XVI guillotined in 1793. Britain was once more at war with France. Attempted revolution by Catholics and French troops in Ireland was crushed and eventually union with Ireland was passed in 1801. By 1803 Napoleon Bonaparte was assembling a fleet for the invasion of England, but the French fleet was defeated by Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle Trafalgar in 1805. Napoleon defeated the Russians at Austerlitz but was forced to withdraw from Moscow by the Russian winter. The battles continued with the Peninsular War in which the British fought to drive the French from Spain. Napoleon was eventually defeated by British and German forces at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. George III died at Windsor Castle on 29 January 1820, after a reign of almost 60 years - the third longest in British history, and was succeeded by his son George IV.
• Stories and Notes: Movie Title: The Madness of King George Starring: Nigel Hawthorne as King George III, and Helen Mirren as Queen Charlotte Released: 1994 Production: Channel Four Films
• To Lady Kathleen: 12 x cousin 8 times removed

George married Duchess of Mecklenburg Sophia on 8 Sep 1761 in Chapel Royal, St.James Palace, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom. Sophia was born on 19 May 1744 in Mirow, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany; died on 17 Nov 1818 in Kew Palace, Kew, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Duchess of Mecklenburg, Canoness of Herford, Westphalia, Germany

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• Occupation: Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall & Gloucester & Rothesay & Edinburgh, Marquess of the Isle of Ely, Earl of Eltham, Viscount of Launceston, Baron of Snowdon, Earl of Chester

Frederrick married Augusta, of Saxe - Gotha on 8 May 1736 in Chapel Royal, St.James Palace, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom. Augusta was born on 30 Nov 1719 in Gotha, Germany; died on 8 Feb 1772 in Carlton House, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
died of Cancer