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Stories from The British Royal Line

1. How were Elizabeth II and Prince Philip related? — Second cousins once removed through Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel, and third cousins through Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
2. How were Queen Victoria and Prince Albert related? — First cousins: Victoria’s mother and Albert’s father were sister and brother, both children of Francis of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf.
3. How was George V related to Wilhelm II and Nicholas II? — First cousins to both — to Wilhelm II through Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and to Nicholas II through Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel. With Wilhelm he was a third cousin as well, through Francis of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Augusta Reuss.
4. How is Charles III related to Queen Victoria? — He is her great-great-great-grandson twice over — once through his mother’s line of sovereigns, and once through his father’s descent from Victoria’s daughter Alice.
5. How were Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I related? — First cousins once removed: both descended from Henry VII and Elizabeth of York — Elizabeth as a granddaughter, Mary as a great-granddaughter.
6. How were Richard III and Henry VII related? — Second cousins once removed through John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford, and third cousins once removed through Gaunt’s parents, Edward III and Philippa of Hainault.
7. Royal marriages between cousins — Among the 116 marriages recorded in this royal volume, seven joined people who already shared an ancestor: four between first cousins — from Mary, Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley to Victoria and Albert — and three between more distant kin.
8. From Alfred the Great to Prince George: the longest line — Forty generations, parent to child, across about 1,164 years — from Alfred the Great, born around 849, to Prince George, born in 2013.