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 Lady Patricia Ramsay, formally Princess Patricia of Connaught.

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 30 (including the Queen) are in the line of succession, though not consecutively. Four of those 30 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

Generations from George V Place in the line of succession Name Birth (& Age) Image
Descendants of George VI
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
4 5 HRH Prince Henry of Wales 15 September 1984
3 6 HRH The Duke of York 19 February 1960
4 7 HRH Princess Beatrice of York 8 August 1988
4 8 HRH Princess Eugenie of York 23 March 1990
3 9 HRH The Earl of Wessex 10 March 1964
4 10 Viscount Severn 17 December 2007
4 11 Lady Louise Windsor 8 November 2003
3 12 HRH The Princess Royal[fn 1] 15 August 1950
Descendants of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
2 24 HRH The Duke of Gloucester 26 August 1944
3 25 Earl of Ulster 24 October 1974
4 26 Lord Culloden 12 March 2007
4 27 Lady Cosima Windsor 20 May 2010
3 28 Lady Davina Lewis 19 November 1977
3 31 Lady Rose Gilman 1 March 1980
Descendants of Prince George, Duke of Kent
2 34 HRH The Duke of Kent 9 October 1935
3 35 Earl of St Andrews 26 May 1962
4 CA Lord Downpatrick 2 December 1988
4 CA Lady Marina Charlotte Windsor 30 September 1992
4 36 Lady Amelia Windsor 24 August 1995
3 CA Lord Nicholas Windsor 25 June 1970
4 37 Albert Windsor 22 September 2007
4 38 Leopold Windsor 8 September 2009
4 39 Louis Windsor 27 May 2014
3 40 Lady Helen Taylor 28 April 1964
2 45 HRH Prince Michael of Kent 4 July 1942
3 46 Lord Frederick Windsor 6 April 1979
4 47 Maud Windsor 15 August 2013
4 48 Isabella Windsor 16 January 2016
3 49 Lady Gabriella Windsor 23 April 1981
2 50 HRH Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy 25 December 1936

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Princess Anne is not 5th in line, as would be expected by her birth order, but 11th. This is a result of the rule of male-preference primogeniture practiced by the British monarchy prior to 2015.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.heraldica.org/topics/britain/britstyles.htm#1917
  2. ↑ http://www.heraldica.org/topics/britain/prince_highness_docs.htm#Apr_9_1952

Further reading

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