February 10, 1840 –
Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, (whose first language was German, was taught English and French, and became virtually trilingual, though her mastery of the conjugation of the past-participles irregular verbs in English remained incomplete which was luckily not on the English Monarchy exam), married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (proving she also failed biology,) on this date.
She arranged marriages for her nine children (mostly to their first cousins) and forty-two grandchildren (mostly to their own first cousins – they needed charts and grafts to make sure they didn’t marry their own brothers and sisters) across the continent, tying Europe together; this earned her the nickname “the grandmother of Europe“.
Oh those wacky inbred royals.
The Haus of Dcaligari 