Son of Lucien Bonaparte. Officer and Deputy of Corsica in the Constituent Assembly.
Author, journalist and literary hostess.
Englishwoman who married Thomas Cochrane in 1812. Her father was Thomas Barnes from Romford, Essex and her mother was believed to be a Spanish dancer.
Daughter of Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge. In 1843 she married Friedrich Wilhelm, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Her sister, Mary Adelaide Wilhelmina Elizabeth, Duchess of Teck, was the mother of Mary, Queen of George V.
Father of Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria.
General of cavalry of the Austrian Army. Founder of the Haus of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Koháry and the catholic branch of the Saxe-Coburg.
Major general in the Austrian army.
Prince Leopold's father, Duke Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg, was uncle to both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Prince Leopold achieved major general in the Austrian army.
Daughter of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Maria Antonia Koháry de Csábrág.
Half-sister of Queen Victoria and wife of Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.
Wife of Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg; daughter of Ernst, 4th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.
King of Prussia (1840–61). Son and successor of Frederick William III. He granted a constitution in response to the Revolutions of 1848, but later amended it to eliminate popular influence. He refused the crown of Germany (1849) because it was offered by the Frankfurt Parliament, a democratic assembly. From 1858, the future Emperor William I ruled as regent.
German lithographer, trained in Berlin. Noted portraits include Friedrich Wilhelm IV on horseback.
In 1836 married Queen Maria II of Portugal and following Portuguese law, only acquired the title of King after the birth of their son in 1837.
Emperor of Brazil (1822–31).
French portrait painter and miniaturist.
Second wife of D. Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil (Pedro IV, King of Portugal). She was Empress Consort of the Empire of Brazil from 1829 to 1831.
King of the Netherlands.
Daughter of Louis-Philippe King of the French. She married Leopold I, King of Belgium in 1832.
King of the Belgians.
Politician and writer.
Maltese lithographer and painter. Settled in London in 1809.
London merchant banker, founder of Frederick Huth & Co.
Secretary of the Athenaeum Club
Businessman and philanthropist, born in Calcutta, Bengal, India, the second son of Rammani Tagore (1759–1833), police officer, and his first wife, Menaka, daughter of Ramakanta Roy of Jessore.