In 1840 Queen Victoria in the United Kingdom married her cousin. What was his name?
Queen Victoria had all died, leaving no surviving legitimate children. The United Kingdom was already an established constitutional monarchy, in which the sovereign held relatively little direct political power. Privately, Victoria attempted to influence government policy and ministerial appointments; publicly, she became a national icon who was identified with strict standards of personal morality. Victoria married her first cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1840. Their nine children married into royal and noble families across the continent, tying them together and earning her the sobriquet "the grandmother of Europe". After Albert's death in 1861, Victoria plunged into deep mourning and
Cousin marriage marriages in the United Kingdom include Charles Darwin, Queen Victoria and John Granville Harkness. In royalty, marriage between cousins was common. King Phillip II of Spain, also husband of Queen Mary I of England, had first married his first cousin on both sides, Maria Manuela, Princess of Portugal. Famous cousin marriages in the United States include Edgar Allan Poe, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, and Jerry Lee Lewis. In Latin America, famous figures who married their cousin include prominent author and 2010 Nobel Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, and former Peruvian beauty queen Marina Mora. Cousin marriage Cousin marriage is