Which royal house did Queen Victoria belong to?

Queen Victoria belonged to the House of Hanover.

The Hanoverian dynasty came to the British throne in 1714, when George I succeeded Queen Anne under the Act of Settlement. The dynasty was originally connected to the Electorate of Hanover, a German state whose rulers also inherited Britain’s crown.

Victoria became queen in 1837 after the death of her uncle, William IV. She was the last British monarch of the House of Hanover. Although she married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, her marriage did not change the dynastic house under which she reigned.

A common mix-up is to call Victoria a Windsor. The House of Windsor was adopted only in 1917 by her grandson George V, replacing the German-sounding House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Victoria’s son Edward VII belonged to that intervening house, not Windsor.