Royal weddings that defined the course of European history
Queen Victoria, renowned for her lengthy 64-year reign, dedicated a significant portion of her rule to cultivating alliances with other influential European states. This endeavor involved marrying her numerous children and grandchildren into other royal families across the continent. As a result, British royalty became dispersed throughout Europe, and Queen Victoria became known as the "Grandmother of Europe."
To discover the remarkable number of marriages she orchestrated and the influential positions her descendants attained, click through the following gallery.
Rebuilding Europe
European leaders reconstructed major European countries like Germany and France, fostering peace and a fresh equilibrium in terms of political power. Great Britain remained one of the most formidable states during this period.
Marriage strategy
They had a total of nine children, and even more grandchildren. Throughout their lives, they arranged numerous unions between their successors and notable European royals.
Princess Beatrice
Princess Beatrice wed Prince Henry of Battenberg.
King Edward VII
Queen Victoria's firstborn son, the future King Edward ViI, wedded Alexandra of Denmark.
Work done
By the 1880s, Queen Victoria had managed to arrange marriages for all her children with influential European royal families. However, her ambitions for peace and harmony were not fully realized. Germany did achieve unification, but at the cost of a violent conflict. Meanwhile, the Russian royal family faced a decline in power, culminating in the assassination of the tsar in 1881.
