Royal descendants of Queen Victoria and King Christian IX Queen Victoria nor King Christian IX. Queen Victoria arranged the marriage of her eldest son and heir-apparent, the future Edward VII, to Alexandra of Denmark, the eldest daughter of King Christian IX, which took place on 10 March 1863. Among their six children were George V (who was also Emperor of India throughout his reign) and his sister Maud of Wales (who would later marry their cousin King Haakon VII of Norway, another grandchild of Christian IX, on 22 July 1896). However, these two marriages were not the only unions amongst and between descendants of Victoria and Christian IX. The
The King of Erin and the Queen of the Lonesome Island that her older son was the gardener's, and the younger the brewer's. The queen of Tubber Tintye had the king of Erin burn her. The king of Erin married the queen of the Lonesome Island, and his son married the queen of Tubber Tintye. The King of Erin and the Queen of the Lonesome Island "The King of Erin and the Queen of the Lonesome Island" is an Irish fairy tale collected by Jeremiah Curtin in "Myths and Folk-lore of Ireland". A king went hunting. Near evening, he saw the first animal, a black pig, and so chased it. The