Did You Know That

[Stargazer]

Three months after her birth in May 1819, another baby was born, this time a boy whose father was brother of the Duchess of Kent. This was his second son, named Albert, who would become Victoria's husband, Prince Albert. So these two were first cousins, their parents being brother and sister.

[New Judge]

I thought everybody knew that!

[cashier]

I knew they were cousins.

[Stargazer]

Yes, probably all of us slightly older folk knew that, but from time to time younger members of the Answerbank get to read information that might otherwise elude them. Teenagers seem to spend all their time on social media and gaming and not reading books.

[ToraToraTora]

your point is?

[Stargazer]

I posted the information which might not have found its way to some of the younger generation. I am eighty next year and I have learned many things over the past thirty years as the only information prior to then was from school, books and radio.

[barry1010]

Medical science has moved on a lot since Victoria's day and we now know that first cousin marriages can cause problems for any children they may have.
Do you think that the fact of Victoria's marriage (and other aristos and influential people historically and more recently) is the reason that first cousin marriages are unlikely to be made illegal?

[ToraToraTora]

did you know Hitler was a product of Uncle and Niece?

[barry1010]

I didn't know that, I thought they were second cousins with a big age gap, so Hitler's mother called her cousin/husband 'uncle'.

[Mamyalynne]

https://thegenealogycorner.com/2012/01/22/adolf-hitlers-family-tree/

[ToraToraTora]

see this episode of TOTU:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0717444/

[gulliver1]

Did you know that Boris Johnson.
Is the Worst Prime Minister in History.

[douglas9401]

Always been my go-to fact checking prog.

[tiggerblue10]

A number of Victoria's family were hemophiliacs and she was a carrier.

[jim360]

// I posted the information which might not have found its way to some of the younger generation. //

Then maybe don't post on Answerbank, not that many of the "younger generation" here...

[Peter Pedant]

the past thirty years as the only information prior to then was from school, books and radio.

some interesting points star-G

The internet has completely changed learning or - - access to knowledge. One evg class, I told the teenage punters that a law case - get into car, drive to law library, get inside, fanny around with law citator (whatever that is), find series ( AER, etc ), find volume and page....
and the Polka said - - oh the uni library has one set text for a course, it was open 24h a day, and people wd book hour slots when - - they would go in and copy it out!

I am not sure that teenagers read AB

V+A were fist cousins and it certainly wasnt thro the British parents. Did you know that her preferred birth name earlier was Alexandrina?

or the space for her was created by - - the triple tragedy?
Princess Charlotte was in labour ( father was the future King of the Belgians ) and the obstetrician ( or surgeon -accoucheur ) went to bed before the third stage was completed following a still birth. He was woken to told that Princess and heiress to the throne was - - DDDDYYYYYIIIIINNNNGGGG ! She did. He shot himself following criticism by all and sundry - - three down

too complex for teenagers? - - it is too complex for a lorra lorra ABers ! ter daaah !

[Peter Pedant]

Jim is probably the youngest

DID you realise that it is commonly possible to complete a maff course or theoretical physics course at uni in England - for three years
and - - - never write a sentence in English?

[Atheist]

Carry on posting, Stargazer. If you are totally ignored then you will know what to do. If you get a bunch of answers, then you are interesting some people. The old rudies are not the only ones here, and it would do them good to have younger blood here (That was meant in the best possible taste).

[douglas9401]

Ahhh, the mist begins to clear. :-)

[jno]

I can't think why the place isn't swarming with Gen Zers eager to be called snowflakes and eejits by their benevolent elders.

Carry on, stargazer, good stuff.