European Monarchs, Consorts, and Heirs, 1900

Country Sovereign Born Acceded Consort (born) Heir (born)

United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland

Queen Victoria
24 May 1819 20 Jun 1837
Prince Albert Edward,
Prince of Wales (1841)

Austro-Hungarian Empire

Emperor Franz Joseph I
18 Aug 1830 2 Dec 1848
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
(1863)

Principality of Liechtenstein

Prince Johann II
5 Oct 1840 12 Nov 1858
Prince Franz (1853)

Principality of Montenegro

Prince Nikola I
7 Oct 1841 13 Aug 1860
Princess Milena (1847)


Her. Prince Danilo (1871)

Kingdom of Greece

King George I
24 Dec 1845 27 Jun 1863
Queen Olga (1851)

Crown Prince Constantine
(1868)

Kingdom of Denmark

King Christian IX
8 Apr 1818 16 Nov 1863
Crown Prince Frederik (1843)

Kingdom of Belgium

King Leopold II
9 Apr 1835 17 Dec 1865
Queen Marie Henriette (1836)

Prince Philippe,
Count of Flanders (1837)

Kingdom of Romania

King Carol I
20 Apr 1839 20 Apr 1866
Queen Elisabeth (1843)

Crown Prince
Ferdinand (1865)

Kingdom of Sweden
and Norway

King Oscar II
21 Jan 1829 18 Sep 1872
Queen Sophia (1836)

Crown Prince Gustaf (1858)

Ottoman Empire

Sultan Abdul Hamid II
21 Sep 1842 31 Aug 1876

Kingdom of Italy

King Umberto I
14 Mar 1844 9 Jan 1878
Queen Margherita (1851)

Crown Prince
Vittorio Emanuele (1869)

Kingdom of Spain

King Alfonso XIII
17 May 1886 17 May 1886
Infanta Mercedes,
Princess of Asturias (1880)

Principality of Bulgaria

Prince Ferdinand I
26 Feb 1861 7 Jul 1887
Princess Marie Louise (1870)
Her. Prince Boris (1894)

German Empire

Emperor Wilhelm II
27 Jan 1859 15 Jun 1888
Empress Auguste (1858)

Crown Prince Wilhelm (1882)

Kingdom of Servia

King Alexander I
14 Aug 1876 6 Mar 1889

Principality of Monaco

Prince Albert I
13 Nov 1848 10 Sep 1889
Princess Alice (1858)

Her. Prince Louis (1870)

Kingdom of Portugal

King Carlos I
28 Sep 1863 19 Oct 1889
Queen Amelia (1865)

Crown Prince Luis Filipe
(1887)

Grand Duchy of Luxemburg

Grand Duke Adolf
24 Jul 1817 23 Nov 1890
Grand Duchess Adelheid
(1833)

Her. Grand Duke
Guillaume (1852)

Kingdom of the Netherlands

Queen Wilhelmina
31 Aug 1880 23 Nov 1890
Princess Sophie,
Grand Duchess of
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1824)

Russian Empire

Emperor Nicholas II
18 May 1868 1 Nov 1894
Empress Alexandra (1872)

Grand Duke George (1871)

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