Was Queen Victoria a descendant of Catherine the Great?

Question

I know all those Eurasian royals intermarried, so they're probably related somehow, but I thought I heard she was a direct descendant somewhere and haven't been able to confirm it.

Answer 1

Let me see if I can recall enough of the of old queen's linage to be of some help with this question.

James I of the Stewart line (d. 1625) was gay but had children. One daughter, Elizabeth he married off to Fred. V, Count Palatine of the Rhine. Their Daughter, Sophia, became (by means we will omit) the Electress of Hanover. The Act of Settlment put Sophia in line for the British throne, but she died before the contemporay occupant (Queen Anne of Table leg fame) died and so it was Sophia's son, the disreptable George I, who became King of England in 1714. He brought two Camilla's with him, nick named the May Pole and the Elephant, to give you some idea of their morph.

George I is Victoria's great-great grandfather. Let's run through George II (d. 1727).
George III (d. 1820, but completely whacked out since 1811) George IV , 1820-1830 (his only daughter married Albert of Sax-Coburg, but died in child birth) his brother, the Duke of Kent, with unseemly haste, dumped his most recent mistress and married Albert's sister, Victoria of Sax-Coburg. Kent croaked but his German wife angled for a regency until it was taken away when her daughter, Victoria became Queen in 1837, when William, 1830-1837 (another bro. of George IV) was gathered to his fathers.

Catherine the Great had no children to speak of, as they say, so any connection must antedate her. She was a princes of Anhalt-Zerbst, a minor German principality. I know of no links with the Sax-Coburg gang. Catherin married Peter II of Russia. She was so mistreated by him that she had him murdered by the infamous Orloff bros. and seized the throne.

Victoria's mother (also Victoria) was a German duchess of the Sax-Coburg-Gothorp family on the contenent. That family married into nearly every royal family in Europe, carrying with them the gene for hemophelia. Victoria married her first cousin, Albert ("Berty") from (where else?) Sax-Coburg. I think she had 9 children by "Berty" before his sheffled off this mortal coil in 1864. They were the most disreputable gang since George IIl's wretched 15 offspring were inflicted on the globe. Maybe it was Alice who married a German prince, but they had a daughter who married Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia. Only boy, a great grand son of Victoria, was a hemopheliac.

Rasputin acquired enormous influence over Alexandra and her week-kneed husband through his power to control the boy's bleeding. He once did it by talking to the child over the telelphone. His influence hastened the collaps of the house of Romanoff.

There is some possibilty of a remote connection through the Hostein-Gottorp family, but I don't know about that family.

I lost track of my yarn here because I could only see a few lines at a time, but I hope some of this will prove usefull to you.

Answer 2

Queen Catherine The Great

Answer 3

Hi,
First of all (all the information is taken from wikipedia) - catherine the great had 2 children that survived childhood - one of them was officially her husband's son, with many descendatns, Paul the first. The other one was child of her lover, also with descendants,
Victoria wasn't born so many years after catherine's death and she's not descendant, but -
I checked in wikipedia - and ofcourse, there's a family connection!!!
and they share the same mitochondrial-gene !! so actually the mitochondrial-gene of chatherine was not lost.
catherine's great-greanmother, from her mother side - was Augusta-Marie of Holstein-Gottorp (and she carried mitochondrial-genes)
victoria's great-great-great-grand-mother - also lineage through women - was Magdalene Sibylle of Holstein-Gottorp, her sister.
Both sisters were daughters of Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony, and carried her mitochondrial-gene.
So here's link to the wikipeida of the lady, that had so many important descendants:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchess_Marie_Elisabeth_of_Saxony

As for the hemophilia-gene, I read that researchers didn't find where it came from, and they think it might be a mutation, but who knows?

Answer 4

Queen Victoria is Queen Catherine's 4th cousin 3x removed. They are both descended from Frederick II, King of Denmark. For Victoria he is her 6th gerat Gandfather via Frederick's Daughter Anne of Denmark who married James I & IV. For Catherine Federick was her 3rd great grandfather via his son Christian IV (Anne's brother). Hope this helps.

Answer 5

Queen Victoria was NOT a direct descendant of Catherine the Great of Russia.

They were related, as all the Germanic royalty were - did you know Catherine the Great actually was a German married to Czar Peter III and when he was deposed, she took over?

Answer 6

Apparently, yes:

"As a matrilineal descendant of Anne de Foix and ultimately a matrilineal relative of Queen Victoria, Catherine with her sons belong to the mitochondrial haplogroup H. Because she did not have surviving daughters, her transmission of that mitochondria ended in her own children."


"The largest compendium of matrilineal kindreds to date is a compilation by William Addams Reitwiesner, “Matrilineal Descents of the European Royalty,” 3rd ed. (1991), on 16 microfiche. One matrilineal descent long of keen interest is that of Queen Victoria (see Genealogists’ Magazine 3 [1927]:6-9, 13[1960]:241-4, 14[1964]:273-7), shared by Charles II of England, Louis XIII, XIV and XV of France, Catherine II of Russia, and Kaiser Wilhelm II."

Answer 7

YES

Answer 8

I haven't found anything so far.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_the_Great
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria