The Duchess of Kent's nephew, Ferdinand (son of Ferdinand, the Duchess's brother), married Maria da Gloria, Queen of Portugal, and was father of Pedro V.and Luis, both subsequently Kings of Portugal.
The Duchess's third brother, Leopold (afterwards King of the Belgians), married first the Princess Charlotte, daughter of George IV., and afterwards the Princess Louise Marie, eldest daughter of King Louis Philippe.

Prince Augustus (son of Ferdinand, the Duchess of Kent's brother) married another daughter of Louis Philippe, the Princess Clementine, while Prince Augustus's sister, Victoria, married the Duc de Nemours, a son of Louis Philippe.

Another nephew, Duke Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander, son of the Duchess of Wuertemberg, married the Princess Marie, another daughter of Louis Philippe.
Thus Queen Victoria was closely allied with the royal families of France, Portugal, Belgium, Saxe-Coburg, and Wuertemberg.
On turning to the immediate Royal Family of England, it will be seen that the male line at the time of the Queen's accession was limited to the sons, both named George, of two of the younger brothers of George IV., the Dukes of Cumberland and Cambridge.

The sons of George III.
played their part in the national life, shared the strong interest in military matters, and showed the great personal courage which was a tradition of the family.
[Pageheading: THE ENGLISH ROYAL FAMILY] It must be borne in mind that abstention from active political life had been in no sense required, or even thought desirable, in members of the Royal House.

George III.