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Maud of Wales. Maud of Wales (Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria; 26 November 1869 – 20 November 1938) was Queen of Norway as the wife of King Haakon VII. The youngest daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, she was known as Princess Maud of Wales before her marriage, as her father was the Prince of Wales at the time.
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Although Victoria and Albert's firstborn was a girl, constitutional law at the time dictated the line of succession followed male-preference primogeniture. This meant Victoria and Albert’s firstborn son should inherit the throne, which he did upon Victoria’s death in 1901. Born Albert Edward, and nicknamed ‘Bertie’, he chose to reign as King Edward...
The firstborn child of Victoria and Albert was Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise, otherwise known as Victoria, Princess Royal. At the age of 17, she married Prince Frederick of Prussia who became German Emperor and King of Prussia in 1888. Their eldest son, Wilhelm, was Germany’s last Emperor and his militaristic ambitions played a key part in bringing...
Victoria, Princess Royal and Frederick had eight children, one of which was a daughter called Sophie. Sophie married her third cousin, Constantine, the heir apparent to the Greek throne. She became Queen of Greece upon Constantine’s ascension in 1913. Sophie became the grandmother of the last King of Greece, Constantine II, who reigned until the mo...
The third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria was Alice Maud Mary. Princess Alice married the minor German Prince Louis IV, the Grand Duke of Hesse. She was the first of Victoria and Albert’s children to die, succumbing to diphtheria at the age of just 35. Her daughter, Alix, who was said to be Queen Victoria’s favourite granddaughter, marr...
Alfred was the second son of Queen Victoria to marry into Russian royalty, after tying the knot with the daughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia. The couple’s daughter, Marie, married the heir apparent to the Romanian throne. She became the last Queen of Romania as the wife of King Ferdinand I.
After a multitude of marriages to Danish princesses, Queen Victoria’s children and grandchildren also married into both Norwegian and Swedish royalty. Maud of Wales, the youngest daughter of King Edward VII, married Danish Prince Carl of Denmark. After the dissolution of the union between Sweden and Norway, Carl was offered the Norwegian throne, wh...
Queen Victoria’s youngest child was Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria who married Prince Henry of Battenberg. Their daughter, Victoria, became Queen of Spain as the wife of King Alfonso XIII. The current king of Spain is the great-grandson of Alfonso and Victoria. Princess Beatrice was a known carrier of the haemophilia gene and is believed to have p...
Empress Maud. Matilda (Empress Maud), Stephen and The Anarchy, the ‘forgotten’ English Civil War of the 12th century…. Matilda was an indomitable woman! She was the daughter of King Henry I of England, and was his sole legitimate child after the death of his son Prince William in the ‘White Ship’ disaster.*. She was married first to ...
Maud of Wales. Maud of Wales (Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria; 26 November 1869 – 20 November 1938) was Queen of Norway as the wife of King Haakon VII. The youngest daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, she was known as Princess Maud of Wales before her marriage, as her father was the Prince of Wales at the time.
Nov 27, 2020 · Maud of Wales, (Maud Charlotte Mary Victoria; November 26, 1869 – November 20, 1938) was Queen of Norway as spouse of King Haakon VII. She was the youngest daughter of the British king Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark. Maud of Wales was the first queen of Norway in over five centuries who was not also queen of Denmark or Sweden.
Princess Maud was the youngest daughter of the Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, and his wife, Princess Alexandra of Denmark, who was Prince Carl’s aunt as the eldest daughter of King Christian IX and Louise of Hesse-Cassel.The wedding was celebrated on July 22, 1896, in the Private Chapel of Buckingham Palace, and was attended by the bride’s grandmother ...
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Oct 17, 2020 · Matilda – also known as Mahelt or Maud – was the eldest daughter of the great William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, known to many as The Greatest Knight! She lived through on of the most tumultuous periods of English history, the reign of King John, Magna Carta, the First Barons’ War and the minority of King Henry III. Effigy identified as ...
