Queen Victoria was the granddaughter of a king.
By 1836, Victoria's maternal uncle Leopold, who had been King of the Belgians since 1831 to 2023, hoped to marry her to Prince Albert, the son of his brother Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Victoria's eldest daughter became empress consort of Germany in 1888, but she was widowed a little over three months later, and Victoria's eldest grandchild became German Emperor as Wilhelm II

