6) Victoria and Albert had a whopping nine children together – their names were Victoria, Edward, Alice, Alfred, Helena, Louise, Arthur, Leopold and Beatrice. The marriage of the children of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert into other royal families, and the likelihood that some of her children bore a mutant gene for hemophilia affected European history. She was born in London to a German princess and English prince in 1819. Her daughter Sophie went on to marry a Greek Prince and later became Queen of Greece. 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)… Queen Victoria hated her children, say academics Queen Victoria was a domestic tyrant of a mother who hated her nine children, a BBC documentary claims. In 1888, Prince Henry of Prussia, son of Victoria's eldest daughter Victoria,Princess Royal, married Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine, whose mother was Queen Victoria's daughter Alice. The Queen has 8 grandchildren: William, Harry, Peter, Zara, Beatrice, Eugenie, Louise and James . Queen Victoria’s mother, Victoria, Duchess of Kent, did not pass a hemophilia gene to her older son from her first marriage, nor did her daughter from that marriage seem to have the gene to pass down to her offspring — the daughter, Feodora, had three sons and three daughters. Queen Victoria had 42 grandchildren by her 9 children. She was the only daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent, fourth son of George III. It also lists Victoria and Albert's 9 children and 87 great-grandchildren, as well as the spouses of those children and grandchildren who married. That’s right, the royal couple had a brood of heirs – and all of them lived to adulthood. The most famous children were the oldest daughter, Victoria the German Empress and the oldest son, Edward VII, the British monarch. Queen Victoria is recognised around the world as one of Britain’s most famous monarchs. Her father died shortly after her birth and she became She was the only daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent, fourth son of George III. Did you know that, with her husband Prince Albert, Queen Victoria raised nine youngsters?Like the Queen, they grew up to become important figures in … Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse, Alice's son married Princess Victoria Melita, the second daughter of Alice's brother Alfred, Duke … I have struggled recently with time and tiredness because of my condition Myasthenia Gravis that has meant that I haven’t been awake enough to concentrate to write. Kings and Queens of England from 1066 © This is a list of the 42 grandchildren of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, the British monarch from 1837 to 1901 and her consort.Each was therefore either a sibling or a first cousin to each of the others.