A Royal Family - Episode 1 - The Father-In-Law of Europe.
In the Europe of the 1800s, Denmark, England, and Russia each have a childless king; all three need an heir to the throne. Speedily arranged marriages, births, and cunning strategies bring King Christian IX, Queen Victoria and Tsar Alexander II to the thr
A Royal Family - Episode 2 - The Family Expands (Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Sweden)
At the end of the 1800s, the Danish King, Christian IX and his wife, Queen Louise, married their six children into the dominating European royal families and Christian IX became known as "Europe's Father-In-Law". Today, his descendants are to be found all
A Royal Family - Episode 3 - The Heirs to an Empire - British Royal Family
In 1863, Christian IX's eldest daughter, Alexandra, marries the English heir to the throne, Edward VII who has a taste for the high life and the company of other women. Their posterity is found primarily in the English and Norwegian royal families. Queen
A Royal Family - Episode 4 - Love and Revolution (Russian Royal Family)
Christian IX's second eldest daughter, Dagmar, is engaged to the Russian Crown prince Nikolai. Unfortunately, he dies soon after and Dagmar is "inherited" by his younger brother, Alexander III. Their son, Tsar Nikolai II, together with his family, are mur
A Royal Family - Episode 5 - Shaky Thrones (Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia & Spain)
A Royal Family - Episode 5 - Shaky Thrones (Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia & Spain)
A Royal Family - Episode 6 - Uncrowned Marriages
Christian IX's youngest daughter, Thyra, marries the ex-Crown Prince from the German principality of Hanover and they take up residence in Austria. Among their descendants is Prince Ernst August of Hanover who marries Princess Caroline of Monaco. Christia