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When I began my interest in royalty, genealogy was the doorway by which I entered. After sorting out the genealogy of the British Royal Family the era that piqued my interest the most was the Victorian Era. To be more accurate I also am equally interested in the Edwardian Age and the time until the end of the First World War. One of the things I have read frequently is the statement that the descendants of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert married into all the great Royal Houses of Europe. While this is true, in some ways I find it misleading because royals marrying royals is a practice that had been going on for centuries. Today all the reigning royal families are related and this is nothing new.
Let us take the marriage of Victoria and Albert’s eldest daughter, Princess Victoria, the Princess Royal, and her marriage to the future Friedrich III, German Emperor and King of Prussia as an example. The two royals were already related. Both were descendants of Sophia of the Rhine (Electress Sophia) and Elector Ernst August of Hanover, the line from which the royal family earned its claim to the throne. Electress Sophia’s daughter, also named Sophia, married King Friedrich I of Prussia and their son, King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia married his first cousin, Princess Sophia Dorothea of Great Britain. The next time the Prussians and the British royal family mingled was when Friedrich III’s great aunt, Princess Frederica, married Princess Victoria, the Princess Royal’s great uncle, Prince Frederick, Duke of York. Their mutual descent from the Electress Sophia made Fritz and Vicky 5th cousins.
Even if you go further back into the British Royal Family’s genealogy, their members frequently married into or chose members from the reigning houses that ruled France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Italy and many others. Charles II of England and Scotland was the first cousin of King Louis XIV of France. The marriage of Charles’ grandfather, James VI-I of Scotland and England married, Anne, the daughter of King Frederik II of Denmark and from this union also descends many of the great royal houses of Europe.
As I discuss this topic on Monday we will come to see all the myriad ways in which the various royal families are related.
European Royal History 
The Princess Vicky people are always causing trouble by explaining that she was Queen Victoria’s only real child and the rest were born of a surrogate Romania gypsy mother.
Thus the unhappy Prince Edward doing the Jack the Ripper killings in 1888 emulated by Charles in Ipswich in 2006.
This is why the King of Spain keeps claiming to be the rightful King of England but I am used to make him go away as I am King Royal and Elisabeth Windsor is Queen Ceremonial and so he is not able to displace her.
Prince Edward might also have been looking for Palmeria the Eastend actress and singer who had married Victor Brunswick son of King William the fourth and Queen Adelaide after Victoria let him out of the Tower of London as a teenager.
By this time Victor had moved to Brighton and joined the police.