![]() George and Nicholas were also first cousins and great friends, while Wilhelm and the Tsar were also distant cousins. George and Wilhelm were first cousins, the German Kaiser being a grandchild of Queen Victoria and nephew to Edward VII, with whom he developed a fractious relationship. Such was the intertwined nature of the European royal houses that when World War One broke out in 1914, the monarchs of Britain, Russia and Germany, George V, Tsar Nicholas and Emperor Wilhelm II, were all related. ![]() By the time George V succeeded his father Edward VII as the head of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1910, however, storm clouds were brewing on the European horizon with the great powers divided into the Triple Entente of France, Britain and Russia and the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy. Victoria herself was half-German on the side of her mother, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and married another German, her lifelong consort Albert. Prior to the reshaping of the European political and monarchical map in the 20th century, the extensive branches of the continent’s royal houses reached into practically every palace. Queen Victoria had been a Hanoverian monarch, a royal house founded in Germany in 1625 as an offshoot of the House of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Founded in 1826, the royal house supplied monarchs to an eclectic list of countries including Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Mexico and Portugal.Īt the time, little was made of the transition. ![]() She had been the last Hanover queen to rule, the line passing over to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on Edward VII’s accession. Edward was the eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and inherited when the crown when his mother died after 63 years on the throne. The lineage was established in 1901 when Edward VII, Charles III great-great-grandfather, was crowned. ![]() King Charles III Coronation: Follow live online updates and commentary here!.The accession to the throne of King Charles III has made the new king the fifth monarch in the line of the House of Windsor, the reigning royal house of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth countries. ![]()
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