Thanks to a sharp-eyed — and knowledgeable — reader, I have added to my understanding of British history, and am able to correct an error in my earlier post of 12/26/24: It’s All In the Genes.

It turns out that I misread a family tree of the British royal family, and conjured up a marriage between Queen Victoria and Denmark’s Christian IX that never actually happened. In fact, it was the marriage of Christian’s daughter, Alexandra, to Victoria’s son, Edward VII, that established the link between the two royal houses.

Thanks to Jillian Nobbs for reminding me — as I should have known — that Victoria was married to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. My late sister, who was a long-time student of the history of the Kings and Queens of England, would certainly have set me straight as well.

Perhaps I should stick to the more familiar territory of Russian history. It’s not any less complicated, but somehow I’m more at home amongst the Rus’ and the Romanovs than the Tudors and the Windsors. It’s genetic, I think.

In any event, mea culpa for the error.

Brendochka
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