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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]

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• Occupation: King of England reigned 1901 to 1910 King of Denmark 1844 - 1925
• Stories and Notes: 3 sons and 3 Daugther
• Stories and Notes: He was the eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and known to his family as ‘Bertie’. As Prince of Wales he did not meet his parent’s expectations of duty and during his mother’s long reign devoted himself to being self-indulgent. He was likeable, sociable and outgoing but became known as a playboy interested in horse racing, shooting, eating, drinking and other men’s wives. In 1863 he married Alexandra of Denmark and the marriage was a reasonably happy producing 6 children. Alexandra tolerated his succession of mistresses who included Lille Langtry (actress), Lady Churchill (mother of Winston Churchill), Sarah Bernhardt (actress) and Alice Keppel (great-grandmother of Camilla wife of Charles the current Prince of Wales). Having mistresses was at the time not uncommon amongst the aristocracy, but his mother despaired of him and kept him away from taking an active part in politics even after Albert's death and she was elderly and retired to Balmoral and Osborne. In 1871 Edward survived a serious illness of typhoid which had killed his father. His eldest son Albert who was engaged to Mary of Teck died of pneumonia. Edward was well received abroad and as heir-apparent toured India in 1875. When he finally became King Edward VII on the death of his mother in 1901, he frequently made trips to Europe including France where he contributed to the Anglo-French ‘Entente Cordiale’ signed in 1904, to Russia and the Triple Entente between Britain, Russia and France which a few years later would play an important role in affairs on the outbreak of World War I. He supported reform of the army following the Boer War, and Admiral Fisher’s expansion of the Royal Navy including building the new Dreadnought battleships. The Edwardian period was seen as golden age for the upper class in Europe and America, but society was changing – socialism, women suffragettes, the Labour party and trade unions were becoming powerful and the founding of Britain’s Welfare State. ‘We are all socialists now’ he is reported to have remarked. In an increasing democratic society Edward saw the importance of displaying the mystique of pomp and circumstance of the monarchy, and seeing and being seen by the people. A role he and his successors took to well. He died of pneumonia at Buckingham Palace in 1910 and was succeeded by his second son George V.
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Edward married Princess of Denmark Alexandra Schleswig on 10 Mar 1863 in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom. Alexandra (daughter of King of Denmark Christian, IX) was born on 1 Dec 1844 in Amalienborg, Copenhagen, , K; died on 20 Nov 1925 in Sandringham House, Sandringham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Princess of England

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Died:
died of diptheria

Alice married Grand Duke of Hesse Louis, IV on 1 Jul 1862 in Osborne House, Isle of Wight, , England, United Kingdom. Louis was born on 12 Sep 1837 in Bessungen, Darmstadt, , Hessen, Germany; died on 13 Mar 1892 in Neues Palais, Darmstadt, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: King of England reigned 1910 to 1936, Duke of York
• Stories and Notes: George V was the second son of Edward VII. His mother was Alexandra of Denmark, sister of Empress Marie of Russia. He joined the Royal Navy aged 12 and served until 1892 when he became heir to the throne on the death of his elder brother Albert, Duke of Clarence, who died of pneumonia. In 1893, he married Princess Victoria Mary of Teck (known as ‘May’ to her family) who had previously been engaged to his brother. They became Duke and Duchess of York and lived on the Sandringham Estate, in Norfolk. The marriage was a success and George unlike his father never took a mistress. They had 6 children Edward, Albert, Mary, Henry, George and John. The youngest Prince John suffered from epilepsy and died aged 13. He became King George V on the death of his father Edward VII in 1910, and Mary became Queen consort. They toured India in 1911 as Emperor and Empress of India. During World War I he made several visits to the front, and Mary visited wounded serviceman in hospital. She was staunch supporter of her husband during difficult times that included not only the war with Germany, but also the Russian revolution and murder of George’s cousin Princess Alix who was Tsarina Alexandra wife of Tsar Nicholas II, civil unrest including the General Strike in England, the rise of socialism, and Irish and Indian nationalism. George V has been criticised for not rescuing the Russian Royal family but at the time there was serious concern that it would incite a similar revolution in the UK. He sent a ship in 1922 to rescue the Greek Royal family including 1 year old Prince Philip now the Duke of Edinburgh. In 1917 with anti-German sentiment running high, he changed the family name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (popularly known as Brunswick or Hanover) to Windsor, and he relinquished all German titles and family connections. George V enjoyed stamp collecting and although considered dull by biographers he became by his Silver Jubilee in 1935 a much loved King. In 1932 he started the tradition of the Royal Christmas broadcast which has continued ever since. His relationship deteriorated with this eldest son Edward (later Edward VIII) when he failed to settle down and had affairs with married women, but he was fond of his second son Albert (“Bertie” later George VI) and his granddaughter Elizabeth (later Elizabeth II) whom he called ‘Lilibet’. She called him ‘Grandpa England’. He died of pleurisy in January 1936.
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George married Mary Queen of England on 6 Jul 1893 in Chapel Royal, St.James Palace, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom. Mary (daughter of Duke of Teck Francis Paul Charles Louis Alexander) was born on 26 May 1867 in Kensington Palace, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom; died on 24 Mar 1953 in Marlborough House, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Princess of Hesse
• Stories and Notes: Sister of Earl Mountbatten of Burma

Victoria married Prince of Battenberg Louis on 30 Apr 1884 in Darmstadt, Germany. Louis was born in 1854; died in 1921. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: King of England - Reigned 1936 Duke of Winsor
• Stories and Notes: Eldest son of King George V he was a popular Prince of Wales seen as a handsome young modernising influence on royal institutions. He served in the Army during World War I but was forbidden to go to the front line. He was known as David to his family, but his relationship with his parents deteriorated as he became a celebrity playboy who failed to settle down and had several affairs with married women. He became King Edward VIII in January 1936 on the death of his father George V. In November 1936 a constitutional crisis arose when Edward wished to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson; it was felt that, as a she had already divorced her first husband and at the time Edward and Wallis had met she was still married to her second husband, she was pursuing the King because of his wealth and position and would be unacceptable as queen. On 11 December Edward abdicated and left for France, where the couple were married in 1937. He was succeeded by his brother Albert as George VI. Edward and Wallis became The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, but were ostracised by his family who felt he had let them down and not done his duty. His views of appeasement on the rise of fascism in Germany and Italy and meeting with Adolf Hitler in 1937 led him to be given the role during World War II of Governor of the Bahamas out of the way of the war effort amid concerns of German plots to kidnap and use him. After the war they became mild celebrities in Europe and America but lived mostly in Paris where he died in 1972. They had no children.
• To Lady Kathleen: 17 x cousin 3 times removed
• Stories and Notes: 1936; Historical Event Title: King Edward VIII announces his abdication Date: 1936

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Died:
died of cancer

Family/Spouse: Wallis Simpson Warfield. Wallis (daughter of Teackle Wallis Warfield) was born in 1896; died in 1986. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As : Albert
• Occupation: King of England - reigned 1936 to 1952
• Stories and Notes: Movie Title: The Kings Speech Starring: Colin Firth as King George VI Helena Bonham Carter as his wife Elizabeth Released: 2011 Production: Bedlam Pictures, See-Saw Films
• Stories and Notes: Second son of George V he was named Albert after his great grandfather Prince Albert. As The Duke of York he had never expected or wished to succeed to the throne. He was naturally diffident and anxious, and suffered from a speech impediment. But he never lacked bravery or enterprise, and had a strong sense of Duty. He had fought as a young naval officer at the Battle of Jutland in World War I, and was the first member of the Royal Family to learn to fly. In 1923 he married Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. They had two daughters Elizabeth, know as ‘Lilibet’ who later became Queen Elizabeth II, and Margaret Rose ‘Princess Margaret’. He became King George VI in December 1936 following the death of his father George V and the abdication of his brother. Fortified by the influence of his Queen, who swiftly acquired immense popularity in her own right, George VI coped with the aftermath of the abdication in a way that quickly restored confidence in the monarchy. When the horrors of World War II descended shortly after­wards on Britain, and on London in particular, the royal couple rose superbly to the occasion. Initially sceptical of Winston Churchill, the King and his Prime Minister soon developed a close personal working relationship and they met regularly to discuss the progress of the War. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth stayed at what they and their subjects saw as their posts all through the Blitz, and showed love and care for their people in gestures that stilled the meanest critics. They narrowly escaped death when bombs exploded beside Buckingham Palace. Their daughters served in uniform, and the identification of the Royal Family with the national will was complete. Following the War Britain entered a time of economic austerity and the British Empire began to be replaced by the Commonwealth of Nations as former colonies including India became independent. The war effort had been crushing and the King’s health was permanently affected. He had been a heavy smoker and in 1951 had his left lung removed. He died suddenly in the winter of 1952.
• To Lady Kathleen: 17 x cousin 3 times removed

George married Queen Mother Elizabeth Angela Maruerite Bowes - Lyon on 26 Apr 1923 in London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom. Elizabeth (daughter of Lord of Glamis Claude Bowes-Lyon) was born on 4 Aug 1900 in London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Stories and Notes: has 2 Sons

Family/Spouse: Earl of Harewood Henry Lascelles. Henry was born on 9 Sep 1882; died on 23 May 1947. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Duchess of Gloucester Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott on 6 Nov 1935 in Buckingham Palace, St.James Park, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom. Alice (daughter of Duke of Buccleuch John Montagu Scott) was born on 25 Dec 1901 in Montagu House, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom; died on 29 Oct 2004. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
Wartime flying Accident

Family/Spouse: Princess of Greece Marina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Princess of Battenburg

Alice married Prince of Greece & Denmark Andrew Mountbatten on 6 Oct 1903 in Darmstadt, Germany. Andrew (son of King of Denmark Christian, IX) was born on 2 Feb 1882 in Athens, , Anatolikis Attikis, Greece; died on 3 Dec 1944 in Monte Carlo, Monaco, , , Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]