Who Were Queen Victoria's Children? Everything You Need to Know About Her Sons and Daughters

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Who Were Queen Victoria's Children? Everything You Need to Know About Her Sons and Daughters
By John Van der Kiste/ Period/ Victorian/ History Extra/ historyextra.com

"Queen Victoria famously dreaded the prospect of childbearing, but nevertheless had nine children with her husband, Prince Albert – five girls and four boys. Here, author John Van der Kiste brings you the facts about each of the monarch's sons and daughters – from the "mischievous" Princess Victoria to the troublesome heir to the throne, Prince Albert (later Edward VII)…..."

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The Marriages of Queen Victoria's Grandchildren
By Deborah Cadbury/ Period/ Victorian/ HistoryExtra/ historyextra.com

"With more than 30 grandchildren growing up in palaces across the continent, Queen Victoria long understood the importance of dynastic marital alliances to extend royal influence. Here, historian Deborah Cadbury examines Queen Victoria’s remarkable European vision and the marriages of her crowned descendants...

Today’s European Union, and its predecessor the European Economic Community (EEC), formed in 1957, emerged from the crucible of two world wars. But a century before that, there was another dream of European unity, born out of the ravages of the Napoleonic Wars in which up to 6 million people lost their lives. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had a plan that they hoped might play a part in steering Europe from a potential battlefield to a haven of peace and prosperity.

After the Napoleonic Wars, British foreign policy aimed to achieve a balance of power in Europe; no single country should become sufficiently dominant to unleash such destruction across the continent ever again. In the mid-19th century, Prince Albert and Queen Victoria believed that dynastic marriages between their nine children and European royalty would provide a further safeguard. Each marriage was a form of soft power: a path to help spread British liberal values across the continent, and perhaps even push back against the destabilising forces of republicanism, revolution and war. Prince Albert glimpsed the possibility of a federal Europe, in which a series of strong, independent countries, stable under their own constitutional monarchies (and ideally modelled as closely as possible on the British constitution), could be united by common goals and interests....."

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[Patri]

I enjoy the PBS series "Victoria." Poor Prince Albert does not want to be king. Only he and Princess Victoria are featured.