Prince Albert and Queen Victoria had five daughters and four sons, including the future King Edward VII and Empress Victoria, the mother of German Emperor Wilhelm II.

When Prince Edward, the fifth child of England’s King George III, welcomed a daughter with his wife, Princess Victoria, in 1819, he had no idea that the little girl would go on to become the Queen of England. With three older brothers, Edward was fourth in the line of succession himself. And in a time when male heirs had priority, he had no reason to think that his daughter, Victoria, would come close to the throne. He had even less reason to believe that Queen Victoria’s children would populate monarchies across Europe for generations to come.

But Edward’s brothers all died without any surviving children. So, upon the deat

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