Queen Victoria and Prince Consort Albert neverstop having children

Basically, I wanted to float this idea:

Prince Henry Edward, Duke of Kent (b.1859) m. Princess Elisabeth Alexandra Charlotte of Hesse (d.1861) (a)
1a) William of Kent (b.1883: d.1888)

2a) Elizabeth of Kent (b.1886)

3a) Richard, Duke of Kent (b.1887)

4a) Albert of Kent (b.1888)
Princess Alberta Patricia Margaret -known as Patty or Patricia to family and friends- (b.1861) m. Leopold, Prince of Anhalt (b.1855: d.1886) (a)
1a) Princess Antoinette of Anhalt (b.1880)

2a) Prince Eduard, Duke of Anhalt (b.1881)

3a) Prince Frederick of Anhalt (b.1883: d.1892) -haemophiliac-

4a) Prince Albert of Anhalt (b.1885: d.1901) -haemophiliac-

5a) Princess Victoria Alexandra of Anhalt (b.1885)

6a) Prince Leopold Adolf of Anhalt (b.1886: d.1913) -haemophiliac-
Any thoughts?
 
It's hard for me to see how this changes much of anything - it's not like Leopold and Beatrice set the world alight by their exciting exploits. I suppose in this world Beatrice might get to marry a bit sooner, since Victoria will have
Patricia to stay with her and act as her secretary. Also, I wonder if the youngest son might take Saxe-Coburg instead of the Duke of Albany, who was not at all interested in the job in OTL and was kind of forced to take it.
 
Is there any point? Most of the children after Alice (the third child) were pretty much unneeded and played no real significant roles.

Adding two more would be useless unless you had a major player for them.
 
Is there any point? Most of the children after Alice (the third child) were pretty much unneeded and played no real significant roles.

Adding two more would be useless unless you had a major player for them.

Alfred was surely significant as a spare in case anything happened to Bertie. If Victoria and Albert had only had the first three children, for instance, there's no way Vicky is married off to the Prussian crown prince, because she's second in line for the throne until Bertie has kids.

The rest of them do seem relatively superfluous.
 
Something you guys are missing is that this opens some new possibilities. Beatrice could have been married earlier, possibly to Alfonso XII of Spain. That means Victoria will go through a different widowhood. Beatrice was so singularly made in personality to be her secretary that Patty has a very little chance of replicating her success. Without that self-less devotion, Victoria will find herself either more independent or at least in need of a network of support rather than placing her entire load of grief on one person. It could, in turn, strengthen the monarchy earlier than OTL. Victoria lost a lot of public support after Albert's death*, and if she is forced to make different decisions earlier on so that she is a more public figure, than that lingering distaste for the monarchy could be lessened, if not averted.

*due to perpetual mourning and her refusal to go out and be seen by her subjects
 
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Something you guys are missing is that this opens some new possibilities. Beatrice could have been married earlier, possibly to Alfonso XII of Spain. That means Victoria will go through a different widowhood. Beatrice was so singularly made in personality to be her secretary that Patty has a very little chance of replicating her success. Without that self-less devotion, Victoria will find herself either more independent or at least in need of a network of support rather than placing her entire load of grief on one person. It could, in turn, strengthen the monarchy earlier than OTL. Victoria lost a lot of public support after Albert's death*, and if she is forced to make different decisions earlier on so that she is a more public figure, than that lingering distaste for the monarchy could be lessened, if not averted.

*due to perpetual mourning and her refusal to go out and be seen by her subjects

Beatrice probably doesn't get married before about 1880 regardless, so I don't think it really changes things that much. And it's quite possibly, I'd think, that this element doesn't really change at all - Victoria marries off Patty *before* Beatrice, and still keeps Beatrice as her secretary. Which, of course, would cause a lot of resentment in Beatrice, but seems totally plausible as something Victoria might do.

Of course, the really interesting person for Beatrice to marry is the Prince Imperial. Would he still go off to South Africa if he's married to Victoria's daughter?
 

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Why not simply make Victoria has twins whenever she had a child? Double the litter while having same numbers of pregnancies.
 
Princess Alberta Patricia Margaret -known as Patty or Patricia to family and friends- (b.1861) m. Leopold, Prince of Anhalt (b.1855: d.1886) (a)
1a) Princess Antoinette of Anhalt (b.1880)

2a) Prince Eduard, Duke of Anhalt (b.1881)

Just a nit pick, Leopold, is only Hereditary Prince of Anhalt, as he dies before his father.

Prince Eduard, won't become Duke until his grandfather's death in 1904. Will the Young Duke, keep the dukedom out if war or follow his cousin further into the unwinnable war?
Who do these two marry?
 
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