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The name had a long association with British royalty, through the town of [[Windsor, Berkshire]] and [[Windsor Castle]], a link reflected in the Round Tower of Windsor Castle being the basis of the badge of the House of Windsor. At the same time, [[Prince Louis of Battenberg]] adopted the surname Mountbatten, a partial translation into English. Prince Louis is the maternal grandfather of [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]]. |
The name had a long association with British royalty, through the town of [[Windsor, Berkshire]] and [[Windsor Castle]], a link reflected in the Round Tower of Windsor Castle being the basis of the badge of the House of Windsor. At the same time, [[Prince Louis of Battenberg]] adopted the surname Mountbatten, a partial translation into English. Prince Louis is the maternal grandfather of [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]]. |
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==Restriction of British princes and princesses in 1917-1919== |
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The House of Windsor was created on July 17, 1917, but in the next few months British princes and princesses of the previous royal house were removed from the House of Windsor by King George V. Letters patent issued on 30 November 1917 that the ''the children of any Sovereign of these Realms and the children of the sons of any such Sovereign and the eldest living son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales shall have and at all times hold and enjoy the style title or attribute of Royal Highness with their titular dignity of Prince or Princess prefixed to their respective Christian names''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.heraldica.org/topics/britain/prince_highness_docs.htm#1917_2 |title= Members of the Royal Family (Nov 30, 1917)}}</ref> The patent removed the title of British prince from 7 people. Out of these 7, 6 lived in Germany and the seventh was 3 year old Prince Alastair of Connaught. The title of British princess was taken from 7 women of the royal blood by the same letters patent issued on 30 November 1917. |
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As [[Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] was a male line grandson of Queen Victoria the letters patent of 30 November 1917 did not remove his title of British Prince. Under the terms of the [[Titles Deprivation Act]] an Order in Council on 28 March 1919 formally removed the Duke's British peerages, the Dukedom of Albany, Earldom of Clarence, the Barony of Arklow and the titles of British Prince; he was the 8th Prince to lose his title. |
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|[[Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn]] |
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|Prince Alastair |
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|1943 |
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|son of Prince Arthur of Connaught |
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|[[Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] |
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|Duke of Albany |
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|1884 |
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|1954 |
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|grandson of Queen Victoria via a male line |
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|[[John Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] |
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| Prince John |
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|1906 |
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|1972 |
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|son of Prince Charles Edward |
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|[[Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1909–1943)]] |
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|Prince Hubertus |
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|1909 |
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|1943 |
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|son of Prince Charles Edward |
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|[[Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover]] |
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|Duke of Cumberland |
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|1845 |
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|1923 |
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|son of George V of Hanover |
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|[[Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick]] |
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| Prince Ernest |
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|1887 |
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|1953 |
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|son of Crown Prince of Hanover |
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|[[Ernest Augustus IV, Prince of Hanover]] |
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|Prince Ernest |
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|1914 |
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|1987 |
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|son of Prince Ernest Augustus |
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|[[Prince George William of Hanover (1915–2006)]] |
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|Prince George William |
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|1915 |
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|2006 |
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|son of Prince Ernest Augustus |
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|[[Princess Frederica of Hanover]] |
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|1848 |
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|1926 |
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|Great-granddaughter of George III, daughter of [[George V of Hanover]] |
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|[[Princess Marie Louise of Hanover and Cumberland]] |
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|1879 |
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|1948 |
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|Great-great granddaughter of King George III, daughter of Ernst August, 3rd Duke of Cumberland |
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|[[Princess Alexandra of Hanover and Cumberland]] |
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|1882 |
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|1963 |
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|Great-great granddaughter of King George III, daughter of Ernst August, 3rd Duke of Cumberland |
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|[[Princess Olga of Hanover and Cumberland]] |
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|1884 |
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|1958 |
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|Great-great granddaughter of King George III, daughter of Ernst August, 3rd Duke of Cumberland |
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|[[Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Princess Sibylla of Albany]] |
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|1907 |
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|1972 |
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|Great granddaughter of Victoria, daughter of [[Duke Carl Eduard of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha|Prince Charles Edward, 2nd Duke of Albany]] |
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|[[Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Princess Caroline Mathilde of Albany]] |
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|1912 |
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|1983 |
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|Great granddaughter of Victoria, daughter of Prince Charles Edward, 2nd Duke of Albany |
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|[[Frederika of Hanover|Princess Fredrica of Hanover and Brunswick-Luneburg]] |
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|1917 |
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|1981 |
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|Great great great granddaughter of George III, daughter of [[Prince Ernst August III of Hanover|Prince Ernst August (III) of Cumberland and Hanover, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg]] |
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After the British titles were removed from the German relatives, there remained 7 princes and 16 princesses of the royal blood. |
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* The 7 princes were the 5 unmarried sons of George V, and 2 generations of the Connaught family. |
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* The 16 princesses were the 3 daughters of Queen Victoria, 10 male line granddaughters of Queen Victoria, 2 granddaughters of King Edward VII via Princess Louise specifically covered by Letters Patent issued in 1905,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.heraldica.org/topics/britain/prince_highness_docs.htm#1917_2 |title= The Princess Royal and her daughters (Nov 9, 1905)}}</ref> and Princess Mary, daughter of George V. |
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British royalty after the death of the last of these 16 princesses in 1981 was composed entirely of the descendants of 3 of the sons of George V. |
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==Descendants of Elizabeth II== |
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==Members== |
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The Letters Patent dated 17 July 1917 stated that ''Our House and Family shall be styled and known as the House and Family of Windsor, and that all the descendants in the male line of Our said Grandmother Queen Victoria who are subjects of these Realms, other than female descendants who may marry or may have married, shall bear the said Name of Windsor''. At the time there was no male who met the qualifications of the latter part of the proclamation, however on 30 November 1917, the title of Prince was taken from [[Prince Alastair of Connaught]] by new letters patent since he was the great grandson of a monarch. He became the first person with the surname Windsor, but he died unmarried. The surname Windsor, as opposed to the royal household name Windsor, was not given again until 1962 with the birth of non-royal son of the Duke of Kent, George Windsor, who is currently styled the Earl of Andrews. |
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The proclamation stated that the name of the Royal House and all British descendants of Victoria and Albert in the male line were to bear the name of Windsor, except for women who married into other families. |
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By early 1919 the living male-line British descendants of Victoria subject to British rule were King George V, his five sons, his daughter [[Princess Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood|Princess Mary]], his unmarried sister [[Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom|Princess Victoria]], his uncle [[Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn]], his cousin [[Prince Arthur of Connaught]], |
By early 1919 the living male-line British descendants of Victoria subject to British rule were King George V, his five sons, his daughter [[Princess Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood|Princess Mary]], his unmarried sister [[Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom|Princess Victoria]], his uncle [[Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn]], his cousin [[Prince Arthur of Connaught]], and the son of his cousin [[Prince Alastair of Connaught]], and his unmarried cousin [[Princess Patricia of Connaught]]. Prince Alastair and Princess Victoria died unmarried and childless. Princess Mary married into the Lascelles family, and Princess Patricia married [[Alexander Ramsay of Mar]]. Neither of the Prince Arthurs had any further children, meaning all subsequent members of the House of Windsor descend from the sons of George V. |
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Two of George V's sons, [[Edward VIII of the United Kingdom|Edward VIII (later Duke of Windsor)]] and [[Prince John of the United Kingdom|Prince John]], had no children, so the entire present day members of the House of Windsor are descendants of the other three sons, [[George VI of the United Kingdom|Prince Albert, Duke of York (later George VI)]], [[Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester]], and [[Prince George, Duke of Kent]]. All descendants living and dead are shown in the table. |
Two of George V's sons, [[Edward VIII of the United Kingdom|Edward VIII (later Duke of Windsor)]] and [[Prince John of the United Kingdom|Prince John]], had no children, so the entire present day members of the House of Windsor are descendants of the other three sons, [[George VI of the United Kingdom|Prince Albert, Duke of York (later George VI)]], [[Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester]], and [[Prince George, Duke of Kent]]. All descendants living and dead are shown in the table. |
Revision as of 21:06, 29 April 2011
House of Windsor | |
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Parent house | Wettin → Saxe-Coburg and Gotha |
Country | Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and the United Kingdom |
Founded | 1917 |
Founder | George V |
Titles | Various |
Estate(s) | United Kingdom, other Commonwealth realms |
The House of Windsor is the current royal house of the Commonwealth realms. It was founded by King George V by royal proclamation on the 17 July 1917, when he changed the name of his family from the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the English "Windsor". Currently, the most prominent member of the House of Windsor is Elizabeth II, the reigning monarch of the Commonwealth realms.
Foundation
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Queen Victoria was married to Albert, Prince Consort– son of Duke Ernst I of the small German duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Her descendants were also members of the ducal family of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a minor branch of the thousand-year-old House of Wettin. It was Victoria's desire that her son rule as a member of the House of Wettin, instead of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, because she felt the older name would conjure images of the shared Saxon heritage of Germany and England. However, the name Wettin was never widely accepted. Victoria's son, Edward VII, and, in turn, his son, George V, reigned as members of this house.
High anti-German sentiment amongst the people of the British Empire during World War I reached a peak in March 1917, when the Gotha G.IV, a heavy aircraft capable of crossing the English Channel began bombing London directly. The aircraft became a household name, and the name Gotha was part of the name of the royal family, Gotha-Saxe-Coburg. These bombings were coupled with the abdication of King George's first cousin, Nicholas II, the Tsar of Russia on 15 March 1917, which raised the specter of the eventual abolition of all the monarchies in Europe. The King and his family were finally convinced to abandon all titles held under the German Crown, and to change German titles and house names to anglicized versions. Hence, on 17 July 1917, a royal proclamation issued by George V declared:
Now, therefore, We, out of Our Royal Will and Authority, do hereby declare and announce that as from the date of this Our Royal Proclamation Our House and Family shall be styled and known as the House and Family of Windsor, and that all the descendants in the male line of Our said Grandmother Queen Victoria who are subjects of these Realms, other than female descendants who may marry or may have married, shall bear the said Name of Windsor...[1]
Upon hearing that his cousin had changed the name of the British royal house to Windsor, German Emperor Wilhelm II remarked jokingly that he planned to see Shakespeare's play The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
The name had a long association with British royalty, through the town of Windsor, Berkshire and Windsor Castle, a link reflected in the Round Tower of Windsor Castle being the basis of the badge of the House of Windsor. At the same time, Prince Louis of Battenberg adopted the surname Mountbatten, a partial translation into English. Prince Louis is the maternal grandfather of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Restriction of British princes and princesses in 1917-1919
The House of Windsor was created on July 17, 1917, but in the next few months British princes and princesses of the previous royal house were removed from the House of Windsor by King George V. Letters patent issued on 30 November 1917 that the the children of any Sovereign of these Realms and the children of the sons of any such Sovereign and the eldest living son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales shall have and at all times hold and enjoy the style title or attribute of Royal Highness with their titular dignity of Prince or Princess prefixed to their respective Christian names.[2] The patent removed the title of British prince from 7 people. Out of these 7, 6 lived in Germany and the seventh was 3 year old Prince Alastair of Connaught. The title of British princess was taken from 7 women of the royal blood by the same letters patent issued on 30 November 1917.
As Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was a male line grandson of Queen Victoria the letters patent of 30 November 1917 did not remove his title of British Prince. Under the terms of the Titles Deprivation Act an Order in Council on 28 March 1919 formally removed the Duke's British peerages, the Dukedom of Albany, Earldom of Clarence, the Barony of Arklow and the titles of British Prince; he was the 8th Prince to lose his title.
Name | British titles held in 1917 | Birth | Death | Notes |
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Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn | Prince Alastair | 1914 | 1943 | son of Prince Arthur of Connaught |
Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Duke of Albany | 1884 | 1954 | grandson of Queen Victoria via a male line |
John Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Prince John | 1906 | 1972 | son of Prince Charles Edward |
Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1909–1943) | Prince Hubertus | 1909 | 1943 | son of Prince Charles Edward |
Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover | Duke of Cumberland | 1845 | 1923 | son of George V of Hanover |
Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick | Prince Ernest | 1887 | 1953 | son of Crown Prince of Hanover |
Ernest Augustus IV, Prince of Hanover | Prince Ernest | 1914 | 1987 | son of Prince Ernest Augustus |
Prince George William of Hanover (1915–2006) | Prince George William | 1915 | 2006 | son of Prince Ernest Augustus |
Title at birth | Birth | Death | Lineage |
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Princess Frederica of Hanover | 1848 | 1926 | Great-granddaughter of George III, daughter of George V of Hanover |
Princess Marie Louise of Hanover and Cumberland | 1879 | 1948 | Great-great granddaughter of King George III, daughter of Ernst August, 3rd Duke of Cumberland |
Princess Alexandra of Hanover and Cumberland | 1882 | 1963 | Great-great granddaughter of King George III, daughter of Ernst August, 3rd Duke of Cumberland |
Princess Olga of Hanover and Cumberland | 1884 | 1958 | Great-great granddaughter of King George III, daughter of Ernst August, 3rd Duke of Cumberland |
Princess Sibylla of Albany | 1907 | 1972 | Great granddaughter of Victoria, daughter of Prince Charles Edward, 2nd Duke of Albany |
Princess Caroline Mathilde of Albany | 1912 | 1983 | Great granddaughter of Victoria, daughter of Prince Charles Edward, 2nd Duke of Albany |
Princess Fredrica of Hanover and Brunswick-Luneburg | 1917 | 1981 | Great great great granddaughter of George III, daughter of Prince Ernst August (III) of Cumberland and Hanover, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg |
After the British titles were removed from the German relatives, there remained 7 princes and 16 princesses of the royal blood.
- The 7 princes were the 5 unmarried sons of George V, and 2 generations of the Connaught family.
- The 16 princesses were the 3 daughters of Queen Victoria, 10 male line granddaughters of Queen Victoria, 2 granddaughters of King Edward VII via Princess Louise specifically covered by Letters Patent issued in 1905,[3] and Princess Mary, daughter of George V.
British royalty after the death of the last of these 16 princesses in 1981 was composed entirely of the descendants of 3 of the sons of George V.
Descendants of Elizabeth II
When Princess Elizabeth (as she then was) married Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, the standard practice would be to adopt his family household name. Because he was a prince, Prince Philip did not have a surname but he was of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a branch of the House of Oldenburg, and that ruled or rules as Kings of Greece, Denmark and Norway. Not wishing to repeat the difficulties of three decades previous, before his marriage Prince Philip renounced his titles and adopted the surname Mountbatten, the literal translation of the German Battenberg that his maternal grandfather had adopted in 1917. The Mountbatten/Battenberg name refers to Battenberg, a small town in Hesse.
On 9 April 1952, Queen Elizabeth II officially declared her "Will and Pleasure that I and My children shall be styled and known as the House and Family of Windsor, and that my descendants who marry and their descendants, shall bear the name of Windsor."[4] On 8 February 1960, the Queen confirmed that she and her children would continue to be known as the House and Family of Windsor, as would any agnatic descendants who enjoy the style of Royal Highness, and the title of Prince or Princess.[4] Still, Elizabeth also decreed that her agnatic descendants who do not have that style and title would bear the surname Mountbatten-Windsor.[4]
Any future monarch can change the dynastic name through a similar royal proclamation, as royal proclamations do not have statutory authority.[5]
Members
The Letters Patent dated 17 July 1917 stated that Our House and Family shall be styled and known as the House and Family of Windsor, and that all the descendants in the male line of Our said Grandmother Queen Victoria who are subjects of these Realms, other than female descendants who may marry or may have married, shall bear the said Name of Windsor. At the time there was no male who met the qualifications of the latter part of the proclamation, however on 30 November 1917, the title of Prince was taken from Prince Alastair of Connaught by new letters patent since he was the great grandson of a monarch. He became the first person with the surname Windsor, but he died unmarried. The surname Windsor, as opposed to the royal household name Windsor, was not given again until 1962 with the birth of non-royal son of the Duke of Kent, George Windsor, who is currently styled the Earl of Andrews.
By early 1919 the living male-line British descendants of Victoria subject to British rule were King George V, his five sons, his daughter Princess Mary, his unmarried sister Princess Victoria, his uncle Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, his cousin Prince Arthur of Connaught, and the son of his cousin Prince Alastair of Connaught, and his unmarried cousin Princess Patricia of Connaught. Prince Alastair and Princess Victoria died unmarried and childless. Princess Mary married into the Lascelles family, and Princess Patricia married Alexander Ramsay of Mar. Neither of the Prince Arthurs had any further children, meaning all subsequent members of the House of Windsor descend from the sons of George V.
Two of George V's sons, Edward VIII (later Duke of Windsor) and Prince John, had no children, so the entire present day members of the House of Windsor are descendants of the other three sons, Prince Albert, Duke of York (later George VI), Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Prince George, Duke of Kent. All descendants living and dead are shown in the table.
As of January 2011, two of these descendants are dead: Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, and Prince William of Gloucester. Seven are Roman Catholic (labelled "CA" in the table), and are thus excluded from the succession. The remaining 43 are in the line of succession. Descendants of George V in male line are shown in red. Agnatic descendants of Queen Elizabeth II and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh are shown in blue. Other descendants of the House of Windsor are shown in yellow.
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 | ![]() |
4 | 3 | HRH Prince Harry of Wales | 15 September 1984 | |
3 | 4 | HRH The Duke of York | 19 February 1960 | ![]() |
4 | 5 | HRH Princess Beatrice of York | 8 August 1988 | ![]() |
4 | 6 | HRH Princess Eugenie of York | 23 March 1990 | ![]() |
3 | 7 | HRH The Earl of Wessex | 10 March 1964 | |
4 | 8 | Viscount Severn | 17 December 2007 | |
4 | 9 | Lady Louise Windsor | 8 November 2003 | |
3 | 10 | HRH The Princess Royal | 15 August 1950 | ![]() |
4 | 11 | Mr Peter Phillips | 15 November 1977 | |
5 | 12 | Miss Savannah Phillips | 29 December 2010 | |
4 | 13 | Miss Zara Phillips | 15 May 1981 | |
2 | Deceased | HRH Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon | 9 February 2002 (aged 71) |
21 August 1930![]() |
3 | 14 | Viscount Linley | 3 November 1961 | |
4 | 15 | The Hon Charles Armstrong-Jones | 1 July 1999 | |
4 | 16 | The Hon Margarita Armstrong-Jones | 14 May 2002 | |
3 | 17 | Lady Sarah Chatto | 1 May 1964 | |
4 | 18 | Master Samuel Chatto | 28 July 1996 | |
4 | 19 | Master Arthur Chatto | 5 February 1999 | |
2 | Deceased | HRH Prince William of Gloucester | 28 August 1972 (aged 30) |
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2 | 20 | HRH The Duke of Gloucester | 26 August 1944 | |
3 | 21 | Earl of Ulster | 24 October 1974 | |
4 | 22 | Lord Culloden | 12 March 2007 | |
4 | 23 | Lady Cosima Windsor | 20 May 2010 | |
3 | 24 | Lady Davina Lewis | 19 November 1977 | |
4 | 25 | Miss Senna Lewis | 30 June 2010 | |
3 | 26 | Lady Rose Gilman | 1 March 1980 | |
4 | 27 | Miss Lyla Gilman | 1 July 2010 | |
2 | 28 | HRH The Duke of Kent | 9 October 1935 | ![]() |
3 | CA | Earl of St Andrews | 26 May 1962 | |
4 | CA | Lord Downpatrick | 2 December 1988 | |
4 | CA | Lady Marina Windsor | 30 September 1992 | |
4 | 29 | Lady Amelia Windsor | 24 August 1995 | |
3 | CA | Lord Nicholas Windsor | 25 June 1970 | |
4 | CA | Master Albert Windsor | 22 September 2007 | |
4 | CA | Leopold Windsor | 8 September 2009 | |
3 | 30 | Lady Helen Taylor | 28 April 1964 | |
4 | 31 | Master Columbus Taylor | 6 August 1994 | |
4 | 32 | Master Cassius Taylor | 26 December 1996 | |
4 | 33 | Miss Eloise Taylor | 2 March 2003 | |
4 | 34 | Miss Estella Taylor | 21 December 2004 | |
2 | CA | HRH Prince Michael of Kent | 4 July 1942 | ![]() |
3 | 35 | Lord Frederick Windsor | 6 April 1979 | |
3 | 36 | Lady Gabriella Windsor | 23 April 1981 | |
2 | 37 | HRH Princess Alexandra, The Hon Lady Ogilvy | 25 December 1936 | |
3 | 38 | Mr James Ogilvy | 29 February 1964 | |
4 | 39 | Miss Flora Ogilvy | 15 December 1994 | |
4 | 40 | Master Alexander Ogilvy | 12 November 1996 | |
3 | 41 | Mrs Marina Ogilvy | 31 July 1966 | |
4 | 42 | Mr Christian Mowatt | 4 June 1993 | |
4 | 43 | Miss Zenouska Mowatt | 26 May 1990 |
Titles
Designation and details
At the creation of the House of Windsor, its head reigned over a unitary British Empire. Following the end of the First World War, however, geo-political shifts took place that saw the emergence of the Dominions as sovereign states, the first step being the issuance of the Balfour Declaration in 1926, followed by the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act the next year, and the Statute of Westminster in 1931. From then on, the House of Windsor became the royal house of multiple countries, a number that shifted over the decades, as some Dominions became republics and Crown colonies became realms, republics or monarchies under a different sovereign. Since 1949, two monarchs of the House of Windsor, George VI and Elizabeth II, have also been Head of the Commonwealth of Nations, comprising most (but not all) parts of the former British Empire and some states that were never part of it.
In the chart below, the countries are differentiated between light green (realms of the House of Windsor as dominions), medium green (present realms of the House of Windsor), and dark green (former realms of the House of Windsor).
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1920 | 1925 | 1930 | 1935 | 1940 | 1945 | 1950 | 1955 | 1960 | 1965 | 1970 | 1975 | 1980 | 1985 | 1990 | 1995 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 |
List of Commonwealth realms monarchs
Portrait | Name | From | Until | Relationship with predecessor |
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King Edward VII | 22 January 1901 | 6 May 1910 | son of Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort |
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King George V | 6 May 1910 | 20 January 1936 | son of Edward VII. Founder, House of Windsor. |
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King Edward VIII | 20 January 1936 | 11 December 1936 | son of George V; Abdicated |
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King George VI | 11 December 1936 | 6 February 1952 | son of George V & brother of abdicated Edward VIII |
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Queen Elizabeth II | 6 February 1952 | reigning | daughter of George VI |
Timeline of Monarchs
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/m51zkcev81dkujkzkxarpd5m7w1v0mq.png)
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.
See also
- British Royal Family
- Canadian Royal Family
- Australian Royal Family
- New Zealand Royal Family
- Mountbatten-Windsor
- List of descendants of George V
- Windsor, Berkshire
- Windsor Castle
- History of the British line of succession
Notes and references
- ^ "No. 30186". The London Gazette. 17 July 1917.
- ^ "Members of the Royal Family (Nov 30, 1917)".
- ^ "The Princess Royal and her daughters (Nov 9, 1905)".
- ^ a b c Royal Styles and Titles – 1960 Letters Patent
- ^ The Royal Family name, Royal Household, retrieved 15 February 2011
External links
- Royal Family Name from royal.gov.uk
- House of Windsor from royal.gov.uk
- House of Windsor Tree from royal.gov.uk [Lord Culloden & Albert+Leopold Windsor are missing]