53 gilt-edged cards - 52 for play and one with title at recto and instructions at verso. The game comprises a series of tricks in which each player tries to assemble complete sets of the royal families of Europe descended from Queen Victoria. Set require a variable number of cards: the Lorne family, of Victoria and Albert's daughter Louise and her husband John Campbell, consists of only one card, and is thus an automatic completion. At the other end of the scale, the Germany contingent comprises nine couples, including Victoria, Princess Royal and the late Emperor Frederick, as well as their son Wilhelm ("William") II and his wife Augusta - completing this enormous branch would take a significant number of tries. Queen Victoria and Albert each receives their own cards in order to make up their own set. The other families are designated as Albany (3), Connaught (4), Battenberg (5), Edinburgh & Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (6), Schleswig-Holstein (6), Hesse (8), and Wales (8). As advertised, the set is an amusingly and instructively convoluted representation of Victoria's immense family tree, and a snapshot of its relative cohesion before the political and military conflicts of the 20th century. Housed in original box, with sliding insert and ribbons still present, if frayed and only stiffly removable. Mild soiling and rubbing overall to cards, box likewise somewhat sullied and rubbed, else near fine and complete. Only one copy held institutionally.