#german royals

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TIARA ALERT: Aline von Alvensleben wore the Prussian Clover Tiara for her wedding to Prince Philipp of Prussia married Tréguier Cathedral in Tréguier, France on 9 August 2025.

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Portrait of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen-consort of the United Kingdom (c. 1831) by William Beechey. National Portrait Gallery.

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Queen Sophia of the Hellenes & Princess Victoria of Wales, 1890s

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Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, 1890s.

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Queen Victoria with her granddaughters, Princesses Irene, Victoria, Elisabeth, and Alix of Hesse and by Rhine. 1880s.

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Eldest Ever and Currently Living Descendants of Queen Victoria

This list is as of 31 October 2024

CURRENTLY LIVING

The Lady Pamela Hicks (19 April 1929) (95 years, 6 months, 12 days)

Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner (12 February 1932) (92 years, 8 months, 19 days)

Count Bertram Friedrich zu Castell-Rüdenhausen (12 July 1932) (92 years, 3 months, 20 days)

Mrs. Anne Mary Sibylla Liddell-Grainger (28 July 1932) (92 years,3 months, 4 days)

Princess Caroline Mathilde Adelheid Sibylla Marianne Erika von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (5 April 1933) (91 years, 6 months, 27 days)

Princess Dorothea Charlotte Karin of Hesse (24 July 1934) (90 years, 3 months, 8 days)

Princess Margaretha Désirée Victoria, Mrs. Ambler (Sweden, 31 October 1934) (90 years, 0 months, 0 days)

Countess Viktoria Adelheid Clementine Louise von Castell-Rüdenhausen-Von Huntington-Whiteley (26 Februrary 1935)(89 years, 8 months, 6 days)

Prince Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick, The Duke of Kent (9 October 1935) (89 years, 0 months, 23 days)

Miss Elizabeth Alice Abel Smith (5 September 1936) (88 years, 1 months, 27 days)

Eldest LIVED Descendants:

On 12 June 2025, Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner will join this list if she is still living.

Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh (10 June 1921-9 April 2021) ( 99 years, 10 months, 11 days)

Princess Alice of Albany, Countess of Athlone (25/02/1883-03/01/1981) (97 years, 10 months, 10 days)

Queen Elizabeth II of The United Kingdom (21 April 1926-8 September 2022) ( 96 years, 4 months, 18 days)

King Mihai I of Romania (25/10/1921-05/12/2017) ( 96 years, 1 month, 11 days)

The Lady Pamela Hicks (19 April 1929) (95 years, 6 months, 12 days)

Count Carl Johan Bernadotte af Wisborg (Sweden) (31/10/1916-05/05/2012) (95 years, 6 months, 5 days )

Count Sigvard Bernadotte af Wisborg (of Sweden) (07/06/1907-04/02/2002) (94 years, 7 months, 28 days )

Lady Katherine Brandram (Princess of Greece and Denmark) (04/05/1913 02/10/2007) ( 94 years, 4 months, 27 days )

Infanta Dona Beatriz   Isabel Federica Alfonsa Eugénie Cristina Maria Teresia Bienvenida Ladislàa   of Spain, The Princess of Civitella-Cesi   (22/06/1909-22/11/2002) (93 years, 5 months, 1 day)

Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten- Knatchbull  , The 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (14/02/1924-13/06/2017) ( 93 years, 4 months)

FACTS:

The Duke of Edinburgh is the husband  and third cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, first cousin of Lady Katherine Brandram,  The Countess Mountbatten of Burma & Lady Pamela (Mountbatten) Hicks & uncle to Princess Dorothea Charlotte Karin of Hesse.  He is also a 1st cousin 1x removed of  Queen Sofia of Spain, King Constantine II of the Helenes and Princess Irene of Greece & Denmark and The Duke of Kent (The Duke of Kent’s mother Marina was The Duke of Edinburgh’s first cousin).

Queen Elizabeth II is a 3rd cousin of The Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Lady Pamela Mountbatten, The Duke of Edinburgh. She is the wife of The Duke of Edinburgh. Through her marriage, she is an aunt to  Princess Dorothea Charlotte Karin of Hesse. She is a first cousin of The Duke of Kent.

Lady Pamela Hicks is a 3rd cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, a first cousin of  The Duke of Edinburgh, her big sister was The Countess Mountbatten of Burma.

Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner is a third cousin of The Countess Mountbatten of Burma, The Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Elizabeth II & Lady Pamela Hicks.

The Countess of Althorne was the last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria. By her marriage,  The Countess of Althorne was also a great aunt of Queen Elizabeth II-she married QEII’s grandmother’s brother

King Mihai I of Romania was the last monarch of Romania, he was also a great grandchild of Queen Victoria twice-once through his mother (via Victoria, Princess Royal) and once through his father (via Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha)

Sweden’s Count Carl Johan Bernadotte af Wisborg & Count Sigvard Bernadotte af Wisborg were brothers as well as uncles to King Carl XVI Gustaf, Princess Margareta, Mrs. Ambler, Princess Birgitta of Sweden, Princess of Hohenzollern,  Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld,  Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Princess Benedikte of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg & Queen Anne-Marie of Greece.

Countess Viktoria Adelheid Clementine Louise von Castell-Rüdenhausen-Von Huntington-Whiteley  was a great granddaughter of Prince Leopold, The Duke of Albany, thus a great great granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She is also the younger sister of  Count Bertram Friedrich zu Castell-Rüdenhausen

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Princess Charlotte of Prussia, eldest daughter of Crown Princess Victoria and Crown Prince Frederick (future German Emperor and Empress) in July 1873.

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A portrait of Princess Sophia of the Palatinate dressed as an South American Indian woman by her sister Princess Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate. She was very fascinated by the travels of Count Johann Moritz von Nassau-Siegen, who was the Dutch Governor of Brazil and returned to Holland in 1644.