Victoria of the United Kingdom
1868 – 1935 · Generation XXXV · House of Windsor
Victoria of the United Kingdom (1868–1935). The fourth child of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, known to intimates as Toria, was born at Marlborough House and schooled at home. She turned down her cousin Crown Prince Christian of Denmark and never married, appearing instead at official occasions with her parents and, after 1910, with her widowed mother. An ardent photographer, she compiled 40 albums recording British and European royalty; the Royal Collection has since exhibited her work. Music mattered to her too: an amateur pianist, she paid for the cellist Beatrice Harrison’s Guarneri instrument and in 1928 made private recordings with Beatrice and her sister May. She was closest of all to her brother George V, who spoke to her by telephone every day. From 1925 she lived quietly at Coppins in Buckinghamshire, where she died in 1935. The State Opening of Parliament, set for that day, was cancelled; the King died a month later.
Place in the family
- Victoria of the United Kingdom was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
- Victoria of the United Kingdom was the fourth of 5 children of King Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark recorded in this archive.
One of 53 people of House of Windsor (from 1917) in this archive. The present house — it renamed itself Windsor in 1917, setting aside the German title Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Line of descent: Owen Tudor → Edmund Tudor → King Henry VII → Margaret Tudor → King James V of Scotland → Mary Queen of Scots → King James I → Elizabeth Stuart → Sophia of Hanover → King George I → King George II → Frederick Prince of Wales → King George III → Edward Duke of Kent → Queen Victoria → King Edward VII → Victoria of the United Kingdom.
Parents
- King Edward VII (1841 – 1910)
- Alexandra of Denmark (1844 – 1925)
Siblings
- Albert Victor Duke of Clarence (1864 – 1892)
- King George V (1865 – 1936)
- Louise Princess Royal (1867 – 1931)
- Maud of Wales (1869 – 1938)