List of members of the House of Windsor
The House of Windsor, the royal house of the Commonwealth realms, includes the male-line descendants of Queen Victoria who are subjects of the Crown (1917 Order-in-Council)[1] and the male-line descendants of Elizabeth II (1952 Order-in-Council).[2] According to these two Orders-in-Council, male-line female descendants lose the name Windsor upon marriage.
The line of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, the third son of Queen Victoria, died out in 1974, with the death of Princess Patricia of Connaught, later Lady Patricia Ramsay.
The line of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, the youngest son of Queen Victoria, were not considered members of the House of Windsor, as they had fought on the German side during World War I as Dukes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (except for the Duke's daughter, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, who was considered a member of the House of Windsor as she remained in the United Kingdom).
Three of the current members of the house of Windsor are Roman Catholic (labelled "CA" in the table), and are thus excluded from the line of succession to the British throne. The remaining 49 (excluding the Queen) are in the line of succession, though not consecutively. Two of those 49 were previously excluded from the line of succession due to having married Catholics, but they were restored in 2015 when the Succession to the Crown Act 2013 came into effect.
House of Windsor: Table of male line descendants of George V
Members
- Descendants of George V in male line
- Descendants of Queen Elizabeth II and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in male line
Generations from George V | Place in the line of succession | Name | Birth (& Age) | Image |
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2 | Sovereign | HM Queen Elizabeth II | 21 April 1926 | |
3 | 1 | HRH The Prince of Wales | 14 November 1948 | |
4 | 2 | HRH The Duke of Cambridge | 21 June 1982 | |
5 | 3 | HRH Prince George of Cambridge | 22 July 2013 | |
5 | 4 | HRH Princess Charlotte of Cambridge | 2 May 2015 | |
5 | 5 | HRH Prince Louis of Cambridge | 23 April 2018 (age 5 months 21 days) | |
4 | 6 | HRH The Duke of Sussex | 15 September 1984 | |
3 | 7 | HRH The Duke of York | 19 February 1960 | |
4 | 8 | HRH Princess Beatrice of York | 8 August 1988 | |
4 | 9 | HRH Princess Eugenie | 23 March 1990 | |
3 | 10 | HRH The Earl of Wessex | 10 March 1964 | |
4 | 11 | Viscount Severn | 17 December 2007 | |
4 | 12 | Lady Louise Windsor | 8 November 2003 | |
3 | 13 | HRH The Princess Royal[fn 1] | 15 August 1950 | |
2 | 26 | HRH The Duke of Gloucester | 26 August 1944 | |
3 | 27 | Earl of Ulster | 24 October 1974 | |
4 | 28 | Lord Culloden | 12 March 2007 | |
4 | 29 | Lady Cosima Windsor | 20 May 2010 | |
3 | 30 | Lady Davina Lewis | 19 November 1977 | |
3 | 33 | Lady Rose Gilman | 1 March 1980 | |
2 | 36 | HRH The Duke of Kent | 9 October 1935 | |
3 | 37 | Earl of St Andrews | 26 May 1962 | |
4 | CA | Lord Downpatrick | 2 December 1988 | |
4 | CA | Lady Marina Charlotte Windsor | 30 September 1992 | |
4 | 38 | Lady Amelia Windsor | 24 August 1995 | |
3 | CA | Lord Nicholas Windsor | 25 June 1970 | |
4 | 39 | Albert Windsor | 22 September 2007 | |
4 | 40 | Leopold Windsor | 8 September 2009 | |
4 | 41 | Louis Windsor | 27 May 2014 | |
3 | 42 | Lady Helen Taylor | 28 April 1964 | |
2 | 47 | HRH Prince Michael of Kent | 4 July 1942 | |
3 | 48 | Lord Frederick Windsor | 6 April 1979 | |
4 | 49 | Maud Windsor | 15 August 2013 | |
4 | 50 | Isabella Windsor | 16 January 2016 | |
3 | 51 | Lady Gabriella Windsor | 23 April 1981 | |
2 | 52 | HRH Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy | 25 December 1936 |
See also
Notes
- ↑ Princess Anne is not 6th in line, as could be expected by her birth order, but 13th. This is a result of the rule of male-preference primogeniture under the law of the Succession to the British throne prior to 2015.
References
Further reading
- Longford, Elizabeth Harman (Countess of Longford). The Royal House of Windsor. Revised ed. Crown, 1984.
- Roberts, Andrew. The House of Windsor. University of California Press, 2000.