![]() ![]() Queen Elizabeth II during the celebrations for her Platinum Jubilee in 2022. But above all, he became a 19th-century influencer by helping to organise the 1851 Great Exhibition, the first in a series of World's Fairs.Īs the mother of nine children who produced countless offspring, Victoria forged family ties throughout Europe by marrying her children to scions of the continent's nobility.Įlizabeth II and Prince Philip, Charles's parents, were distant cousins, not least because of their hereditary ties to the woman who was dubbed the "grandmother of Europe". The Prince Consort was credited with popularising the Christmas tree tradition. The pair regularly wrote to each other in German. ![]() Queen Victoria was one of his descendants and after her marriage to Albert, the family changed its name from Hanover to Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The first German to be crowned King of Great Britain was George I in 1714.īorn into the House of Hanover in northern Germany, he did not speak English, and his accession to the throne was due solely to his religion: Catholics were excluded from the line of succession, and he was the closest Protestant relative of the late Queen Anne. In the face of increasingly hostile public opinion, the quintessentially British king decided to cut ties with Germany and adopted the name of a famous castle, the royal residence, near London. Nearly eight decades later, their grandson George V disowned the cumbersome patronymic while his country was fighting Germany in the Great War. ![]()
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