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“.
There must have been mass confusion when it came to which side of the aisle guests, at the church, were seated.
Oh those wacky inbred royals.
The Haus of Dcaligari 