Assassination: The Royal Family's 1000-Year Curse (65 page)

Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg……………..…neither of his children and Gotha had issue, his son [second cousin] having died after a
grandson of Queen Victoria’s uncle
prostitute threw acid

in his face

Hereditary Grand Duke Adolphus…………..committed suicide, his of Mecklenburg-Strelitz mind deranged from [second cousin once removed] pressure to divorce his
2 x great-grandson of George III
commoner wife,

leaving no issue

Prince Wolrad of Waldeck……………….……killed in WW1, leaving and Pyrmont no issue
[fourth cousin once removed]
descendant of George III’s sister

Prince Bovaradej of Siam………….........……..exiled

 

In carriages

Queen Alexandra…………………………..…..died of a heart attack, [wife]
also fourth cousin, as both 4 x greatgrandchildren of George II

already partly deaf, partly blind and with her speech and
memory impaired Empress Maria (Dagmar) of Russia…..….....exiled [sister-in-law]
sister of Queen Alexandra; also fourth
cousin of Edward as both 4 x
great-grandchildren of George II

The Princess Royal…………………………....when she and her Louise Duchess of Fife [daughter]
family were
shipwrecked off
Egypt, while the
others reached
lifeboats she was
swept overboard
and almost drowned; she was saved, but her jewellery was lost

Princess Victoria………………………..…..…never married [daughter]

Queen Mary…………………………………...predeceased by [daughter-in-law]
wife of Edward’s son, George; also second cousin of Edward, both being great- grandchildren of George III

three of her six children, she
nevertheless saw her husband, two sons and
granddaughter as sovereigns

Queen Maud of Norway……………….…….died of heart failure [daughter] after an operation

Duke of Cornwall…………………….…….....abdicated later King Edward VIII
[grandson]
son of George V

Princess Mary………………………..….……..forced to marry [granddaughter] Viscount Lascelles,
daughter of George V
she refused to attend

the wedding of the present Queen as her brother the Duke of Windsor had not been invited; he was later invited to the wedding of Princess Margaret, but he refused to attend

Princess Christian of Schleswig-………….....lost the name Holstein Schleswig-Holstein [sister] in 1917

Princess Louise Duchess of Argyle….…...…died without issue [sister]

Beatrice Princess Henry of Battenberg…...…her husband died of [sister] malaria contracted in the Anglo-Ashanti War; she survived him by 48 years

Duchess of Connaught……………….……....the first member of Princess Louise of Prussia
[sister-in-law]
wife of Edward’s brother Arthur; also Edward’s fifth cousin twice removed as a descendant of George II’s sister

the Royal Family to be cremated (at Golders Green Crematorium in NW London)

Duchess of Albany Princess Helena…….…...her husband died of of Waldeck and Pyrmont
[sister-in-law]
wife of Edward’s brother Leopold; also Edward’s third cousin twice removed as a descendant of George III’s sister

haemophilia after two years of marriage
Princess Patricia of Connaught……….……..relinquished the title [niece] on marrying a
daughter of Edward’s brother Arthur
commoner

Princess Alexandra of Fife…………….……...left no issue [granddaughter]
daughter of Edward’s daughter Louise;
but when her husband died of pleurisy,
she married her mother’s cousin (Edward’s
nephew Arthur)

Princess Maud of Fife………………………...title of princess [granddaughter] abandoned as
daughter of Edward’s daughter Louise
demanded by George V

who disapproved of his father having elevated George’s nieces to the rank of princess when their father was merely a duke

Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-…......lost the name Holstein Schleswig-Holstein in [niece] 1917; never married
daughter of Edward’s sister Helena

Princess Marie of Schleswig-Holstein……....lost the name [niece]
daughter of Edward’s sister Helena

Schleswig-Holstein in 1917, her marriage was annulled by her father-in-law the Duke of Anhalt who was said to have
discovered his son in bed with a male
servant; left no issue

Prince Albert later King George VI [grandson]
son of George V
₄₉₄

Prince Henry, later Duke of Gloucester…….his first son (diagnosed [grandson] with porphyria) died in a
son of George V
plane crash, as did Henry’s

brother George Duke of Kent. Henry’s wife (Princess Alice) lived to the age of 102, the oldest ever member of the Royal Family

Prince George of Hanover………………...…killed in a car crash; left and Cumberland no issue
[second cousin once removed]
2 x great-grandson of George III;
also Queen Alexandra’s nephew

Prince Tsai-tao of China……………….…......uncle of the Emperor of China; dynasty collapsed in 1912

(Former) President Theodore Roosevelt…....survived assassination [17th cousin twice removed]
Roosevelt being a 16 x greatgrandson of Edward III, and Edward VII being an 18 x greatgrandson of Edward III

in 1912 as the bullet, before entering his chest, passed through the steel eyeglass-case and
50-page speech in his jacket inside-pocket
(the bullet was never removed)

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David Maislish

 

Author of

 

Assassination
and
White Slave

Educated at Warwick House School Hampstead and Haberdashers’ Aske’s School Elstree, and holding an LLB from London University, David is married with five children and lives in London where he is a partner in US law firm Duane Morris.

For further information, in particular on the characters, battles and places mentioned in
Assassination
, see:

 

www.DavidMaislish.co.uk