Bad Pyrmont

Prince Arthur, child number seven and a military enthusiast, he had risen to the rank of Field Marshal, married Princess Louise Marguerite of Prussia.

Their eighth child and youngest boy, Prince Leopold, married Princess Helena Frederike of Waldeck and Pyrmont, another German state.

although he died two years after this happy union was formed due to haemophilia, a genetic condition which spread through Victoria's network of descendants across Europe, a condition which particularly harmed the Russian royal family when the sole heir to the throne, Alexei, the son of Victoria's granddaughter Alex and Tsar Nicholas, was found to harbor the often deadly disease.

As Victoria's husband Albert had died when their ninth and last child, Princess Beatrice, was four years old, Victoria rejected any potential suitors and kept her close as a companion.