![]() ![]() He became King of the United Kingdom in 1901. The first one was Wilhelm, who became German Emperor in 1888.Įdward was Queen Victoria’s second child. Victoria and Frederick gave birth to eight children. Victoria, Queen Victoria’s eldest child, married Frederick III (German Emperor) in 1858 at the Chapel Royal of St. “Family of Queen Victoria” by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1846) (Source: Royal Collection, Wikimedia Commons) Queen Victoria gave birth to nine children who got married into royal and noble families across the European continent, earning Victoria the sobriquet “the grandmother of Europe”. George V (King of the United Kingdom), Wilhelm II (German Emperor), and Nicholas II (Emperor of All Russia) were either grandsons or grandsons-in-law of the same grandmother, namely Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom. More specifically, England’s, Germany’s, and Russia’s sovereigns were cousins. ![]() Might sound weird, but during the First World War - also called the Great War - most of the sovereigns of the countries involved were relatives. ![]()
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