Queen Victoria was a member of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family, who also ruled the nations of Belgium, Portugal and Bulgaria. George IV’s niece, Victoria, who also had a partly German bloodline, was crowned Queen of England in 1837. She married her cousin, the German Prince Albert of Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha. They had 9 children who were married to royals of other European countries, including Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Russia, Bulgaria, Belgium and Portugal.