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The royal weddings that changed European history
Queen Victoria controlled European politics through carefully arranged marriages
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Queen Victoria was one of the longest-reigning monarchs in history, ruling for 64 years. She dedicated many of these years to arranging alliances with other powerful states around Europe. These alliances were achieved through marriages between her many children and grandchildren and members of other European royal families. The result was such a vast distribution of British royals around the continent that Queen Victoria became known as the "Grandmother of Europe."
Click through the following gallery to learn about the incredible number of marriages she arranged and the powerful positions her descendants claimed.
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