How many 2x great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria are living?

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bx...@yahoo.com

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Sep 14, 2022, 8:22:04 AM9/14/22
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With the passing of HM, how many 2x great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria are still living?

Thanks.

Brooke

Brian Coleman

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Sep 14, 2022, 8:28:32 AM9/14/22
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by my calculation 52

jksutherl...@gmail.com

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Sep 14, 2022, 8:43:23 AM9/14/22
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61 / 142 according to this:


The youngest is Elizabeth Ramsay, born 1963
The oldest is Lady Pamela Hicks (née Mountbatten), born 1929

bx...@yahoo.com

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Sep 14, 2022, 9:40:47 AM9/14/22
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Thank you!

Brooke

colinp

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Sep 14, 2022, 1:00:17 PM9/14/22
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I make them 55 ! (apologies if some of the foreign titles are wrong...)

  1. Queen Sofia of Spain 02/11/1938
  2. King Constantine II of Greece 2/6/1940
  3. Princess Irene of Greece 11/5/1942
  4. Countess Elisabeth of Oppersdorff 8/10/1940
  5. Princess Dorothea of Windisch-Graetz 24/7/1934
  6. Prince Rainer of Hesse 18/11/1939
  7. Clarissa Derrien 6/2/1944
  8. The Duke of Gloucester 26/8/1944
  9. The Duke of Kent 9/10/1935
  10. Princess Alexandra 25/12/1936
  11. Prince Michael of Kent 4/7/1942
  12. Princess Astrid of Norway 12/2/1932
  13. King Harald V of Norway 21/2/1937
  14. Lady Pamela Hicks 19/4/1929
  15. Baroness Alexandra von Baillou 21/5/1935
  16. Archduke Dominic of Austria-Tuscany 4/7/1937
  17. Baroness Maria Magdalena von Holzhausen 2/10/1939
  18. Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia 23/12/1953
  19. Gerarda Saint 25/8/1939
  20. Countess Beatriz dei Farini 27/4/1943
  21. Prince Alvaro-Jaime of Orleans-Borbon 1/3/1947
  22. Margareta Ambler 31/10/1934
  23. Princess Birgitta of Hohenzollern 19/1/1937
  24. Baroness Desiree Silfverschiold 2/6/1938
  25. Christina Magnuson 3/8/1943
  26. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden 30/4/1946
  27. Count Michael Bernadotte 21/8/1944
  28. Queen Margrethe II of Denmark 16/4/1940
  29. Princess Benedikte of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg 29/4/1944
  30. Queen Anne Marie of Greece 30/8/1946
  31. Hon Mrs Katharine Fraser 11/10/1957
  32. Hon Mrs Alice Ramsey 8/7/1961
  33. Hon Elizabeth Ramsay 15/4/1963
  34. Anne Liddell-Grainger 28/7/1932
  35. Elizabeth Wise 5/9/1936
  36. Marianne Nielsen 5/4/1933
  37. Prince Ernst Leopoldo of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 14/1/1935
  38. Prince Peter of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 12/6/1939
  39. Count Bertram of Castell-Rudenhausen 12/7/1932
  40. Victoria Huntington-Whiteley 26/2/1935
  41. Calma Berger 18/11/1938
  42. Dagmar Walz 22/11/1940
  43. Prince Andreas of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 21/3/1943
  44. Claudia Schafer 22/5/1949
  45. Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Meiningen 15/7/1951
  46. Robin Bryan 20/12/1957
  47. Prince Marco Torlonia 2/7/1937
  48. Olimpia Weiller 27/12/1943
  49. Countess Vittoria Alvarez 5/3/1941
  50. Donna Giovanni Galobart 31/1/1943
  51. Donna Maria Teresa de Arana Arana 4/1/1945
  52. Anna Sandra Stavro Santarosa 21/12/1948
  53. Infanta Maria del Pilar of Spain 30/7/1936
  54. King Juan Carlos I of Spain 5/1/1938
  55. Infanta Margarita of Spain 6/3/1939

Brian Coleman

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Sep 14, 2022, 1:21:51 PM9/14/22
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Number 17former Archduchess Marie of Austria died August 2021

BREMENMURRAY

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Sep 14, 2022, 2:09:33 PM9/14/22
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No 53 Infanta Maria Pilar died in 2020  

Ivan Prekajski

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Sep 14, 2022, 5:29:14 PM9/14/22
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NO 37 Prince Ernst Leopoldo of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 14/1/1935 committed suicide in 1996.

BREMENMURRAY

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Sep 15, 2022, 9:35:03 AM9/15/22
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The original answer 52 seems to be correct

bx...@yahoo.com

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May 26, 2026, 8:22:40 AM (16 hours ago) May 26
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I'm trying to update this list, and have found several who have died and 2 that seem to be missing.

Those who have died:

#2 King Constantine II in 2023
#3 Ps. Irene in 2026
#17 Baroness Maria Magdalena in 2020
#23 Princess Birgitta in 2024
#43 Prince Andreas in 2025
#44 Claudia Schafer in 2016
#47 Prince Marco Torlonia in 2014
#53 Infanta Maria del Pilar in 2020

The two that I have on my list, and for whom I could find no date of death are a brother and a sister who would fit in between #17, the late Baroness Maria Magdalena, and #18, Grand Duchess Maria Vladmirovna.

They are Ps. Marie-Cecile of Prussia (b. 1942), who is/was married to Duke Friedrich August of Oldenburg, and her younger brother, Prince Christian-Sigismund of Prussia (b. 1946).

Does anyone know if they are still living, and if anyone else on the list has died?

Thanks.

Brooke

Brian Coleman

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May 26, 2026, 8:30:02 AM (16 hours ago) May 26
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by my calculation there are 46 still alive as of today

bx...@yahoo.com

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May 26, 2026, 11:39:11 AM (13 hours ago) May 26
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Hi Brian.

I have 48 still living-- the 46 from the list, plus the two that I mentioned.

Where do we differ?

Brooke

BREMENMURRAY

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May 26, 2026, 11:58:27 AM (13 hours ago) May 26
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Number five Princess Dorothea and number twenty three Princess Desiree of Sweden have both died

BREMENMURRAY

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May 26, 2026, 12:31:37 PM (12 hours ago) May 26
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Prince Christian Sigismund of Prussia is still alive and no evidence online that Princess Marie-Cecile has died.Both should be added to the list

bx...@yahoo.com

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May 26, 2026, 12:46:01 PM (12 hours ago) May 26
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Hi BRMENMURRAY.

Thanks for the information.

#5 Princess Dorothea died in 2025.
#23 Princess Desiree died in 2026.

That would indeed put the total at 46, including Princess Marie-Cecile and Prince Christian-Sigismund.

bx...@yahoo.com

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May 26, 2026, 12:49:52 PM (12 hours ago) May 26
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I am slowly trying to wind my way through Victoria's descendants, with the hope, at some point,  of putting together a list of her living direct descendants.

I believe there are 3 more generations to go through.

Brooke

colinp

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May 26, 2026, 4:18:24 PM (8 hours ago) May 26
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Prince Christian Sigismund of Prussia and Princess Marie-Cecile of Prussia (now Duchess of Oldenburg) are 3x great grandchildren not 2x

Brian Coleman

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May 26, 2026, 5:14:41 PM (8 hours ago) May 26
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No they are the grandchildren of Pss Victoria Melita of Saxe Coburg Gotha (formerly Edinburgh )

Brian Coleman

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May 26, 2026, 5:16:00 PM (8 hours ago) May 26
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and Great Grandchildren of the Kaiser on their Fathers side 
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