What nationality was prince Albert, husband of queen Victoria ?

Question

and was she English ? and if so where did the Germans first start to creep in ?

Answer 1

I believe he was German & she was English.

Answer 2

It was a custom then (and probably now), that royalties got married among each other to improve relationships between nations  and sometimes as a diplomatic gesture. Queen Victoria was British from her father's side and German from her mother's side. Prince Albert was her cousin and he was pure German. It so happened that it was more or less arranged for them to meet each other, and get married. Prince Albert got the benefit of raising in status, but there was some kind of resentment against him because he was foreine.

Answer 3

He was German,but not responsible for bombing our chippie.

Answer 4

He was Austrian.

Answer 5

german

Answer 6

He was a German.

Answer 7

He was German, and so were all three of the first Georges.  (the Hanover dynasty).

The GERMANS crept in with George I, but then there were the Dutch, back with William the Orange.  (Wm and Mary).

Answer 8

he was a german

Answer 9

It's here in Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Albe... Read it and you tell me :)

Answer 10

k***t

Answer 11

It all gets a bit complicated.  Germany at the time was a group of little states in a loose federation.  Albert came from Saxe Coburg Gotha, a tiny German state.  

Victoria's mother came from Thurungia which is a larger German state.  

Her father was nominally English.  He was a descendent of George III and his German wife.  George III had mainly German parentage although his family's claim to the throne was that George I's mother was a member of the Stuart family.

The Stuarts of course were the Scottish royal family.  They came to the English throne because one of them had married Henry VIII's sister.  Henry VIII was king because his father (who was half Welsh) had deposed Richard III.

So there's not much English in there at all.  A bit like the rest of us really.  Now all we need is for Prince William to marry a nice Polish Muslim girl and we'll have a truly representative monarchy.

Answer 12

German.

Answer 13

I thought he was Dutch

Answer 14

They were both ethnically German. Victoria's mother was fully German and her father was descended from Germans. Her governess was German and she spoke German before she spoke English. Albert was Victoria's cousin and was fully German.

The Germans came in when Queen Anne (1665-1714) died without any heirs. The throne was to pass to her cousin Sophia, Electress of Hanover (1630-1714) (German), but  Sophia died before Anne did, so the throne passed to her son who became George I (1660-1727). So all the monarchs of Britain since then have German ancestry.

Answer 15

Austrian. I have no idea where that German nonsense originated from.

Answer 16

She was English he was German

Answer 17

Both Queen Victoria and her husband, who was also her first cousin, Prince Albert were entirely of German descent. Queen Anne was the last English Queen to have ruled over Great Britain, since her passing in 1714. She died without any surviving legitimate offspring, although she did had a half-brother James II, who was sent in exile due to his Catholic faith. Her death not only marked the end of the Stuart rule, but also the English rule for the last 648 years starting with William the Conquer, and the beginning of the new era of the "British rule." Thus, to preclude a Roman Catholic from obtaining the Crown, Parliament enacted the Act of Settlement 1701, which provided that, failing the issue of Princess Anne and of William III by any future marriage, the Crown would go to Sophia, Electress of Hanover, and her descendants, who descended from James I of England through Elizabeth Stuart. Several genealogically senior claimants were disregarded due to their Catholicism.

Through the Act of Settlement 1701, an Act of the Westminster Parliament which sought to suspend the normal laws of inheritance to the English and Scots thrones, Sophia was declared the heiress presumptive to her first cousin once removed, Queen Anne of England, Scotland and Ireland (later Queen of Great Britain and Ireland). She would have acceded to Anne's crown, had she not died a few weeks before Anne did. On Sophia's death, her son George Louis, Elector of Hanover and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, became heir apparent. On Queen Anne's death, he became King George I. He was a German Prince, born and raised in Germany, and spoke very little English. His son and heir King George II, was the last British monarch to have been born in Germany, and it was not until the birth of his son, George III, who was a fully British born monarch and speak English as his first language.

Note: Queen Victoria herself was entirely of German descent, and she married her first cousin, Prince Albert, a German Prince. The current Queen's real surname was "Wettin", however, high anti-German feeling among the people during World War I prompted the Royal Family to abandon all titles held under the German crown and to change German-sounding titles and house names for English-sounding versions.

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