A brief description of each from Amphorae. To quote:
Victoria
married her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in February
of 1840, and the first of their children, Victoria, was born in November
of the same year. Below is a list of the couple's 9 children and some
information that you may find interesting about each.
Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa "Vicky"-
born 21st November 1840, died 5th August 1901. Married German Emperor
Frederick III, becoming Empress of Germany and Queen of Prussia. After
her marriage she remained close to both her younger brother, Edward, and
her mother to whom she sent more than 4,000 letters. Her education had
been closely supervised and included reading, writing, French, German,
literature, science, Latin, history, politics, and philosophy. Despite
knowing German she continued to speak English within her household once
in Germany, and was sometimes known as "The Englishwoman". She had 8
children; William, Charlotte, Henry, Sigismund (died aged 21 months),
Victoria, Waldemar (died aged 11), Sophie, and Margaret. Victoria died
of throat cancer in 1901, only 7 months after her mother.
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