Did You Know That.......

[Stargazer]

Queen Victoria had two half siblings when she was born, as her mother had been married before she became Duchess of Kent. They were Charles and Feodora aged 12 and 10. The boy was brought up in Germany but Feodora was brought up in Kensington Palace alongside her half sister, Victoria, by their mother the widowed Duchess of Kent. Victoria's father had died when she was not even one year old.

[Mamyalynne]

I knew of them but not much about them.

[barry1010]

Yes, I watched the TV serieVictoria , the half brother was Carl, not Charles

[1ozzy]

I either need to go to Specsavers or a psychologist.
I initial read that as "had two and a half siblings"
Now I'm worried

[Stargazer]

The son of the Duchess of Kent was Charles (not Carl) who was a prince of the principality of Leiningen in Germany. This is historical fact.

[barry1010]

"Queen Victoria’s mother, the Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld married Victoria’s father Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn in 1818 but prior to that short-lived union, the German princess had been married to another nobleman for much longer. Prince Carl and Victoria’s mother were married in 1803 and had two children, a son named Carl, after his father, who was born in 1804 just a year after the two had married and then a daughter named Feodora. "
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=queen+victoria%27s+mother

"Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1786-1861), however, did have two other legitimate children from a first marriage to Emich Carl, Prince of Leiningen (1763-1814). These children were Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen (1804-1856), and Princess Feodora of Leiningen (1807-1872)."
https://royalhistoryblog.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/queen-victorias-half-sister-half-brother/

[Stargazer]

The information on the Internet is not always 100% accurate. Victoria knew him as Charles!

Upon hearing of her half-brother's death, Queen Victoria wrote in her journal:

"I cannot realise that my dearly loved only brother has been taken from us! Whilst I write this, I feel as if it could only be a bad dream, from which I might yet awake, to see his dear face, hear his joyous voice & laugh, & enjoy his delightful company. It seems quite impossible, that dear Charles, the personification of life, health, & merriment, whom I can only see as such before me, — should be no longer in this world, & that I shall never see him again! It is too dreadful, too hard! But we must submit to God's will, & I do feel, that in poor dear Charles's case, his passing away is a mercy."

— Queen Victoria's Journals, Thursday 13th November 1856[1]