List of members of the House of Windsor

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The House of Windsor, the royal house of the United Kingdom and 14 other 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 Queen 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 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 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 Elizabeth II and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in male line
Generations
from George V
Place in the
line of succession
Title Birth (& age) Image
Descendants of King George VI
2 Sovereign The Queen (1926-04-21) 21 April 1926 (age 95)
Queen Elizabeth II in March 2015.jpg
3 1 The Prince of Wales (1948-11-14) 14 November 1948 (age 73)
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4 2 The Duke of Cambridge (1982-06-21) 21 June 1982 (age 39)
Prince William and Duchess Kate of Cambridge visits Sweden 02 (cropped 2).jpg
5 3 Prince George of Cambridge (2013-07-22) 22 July 2013 (age 8)
Prince George of Cambridge in 2019 (cropped).jpg
5 4 Princess Charlotte of Cambridge (2015-05-02) 2 May 2015 (age 6)
Princess Charlotte of Cambridge in 2019 (cropped).jpg
5 5 Prince Louis of Cambridge (2018-04-23) 23 April 2018 (age 3)
Prince Louis of Cambridge 2019.jpg
4 6 The Duke of Sussex (1984-09-15) 15 September 1984 (age 37)
Prince Harry at the 2017 Invictus Games opening ceremony.jpg
5 7 Archie Mountbatten-Windsor (2019-05-06) 6 May 2019 (age 2)
5 8 Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor (2021-06-04) 4 June 2021 (age 8 months)
3 9 The Duke of York (1960-02-19) 19 February 1960 (age 61)
The Duke of York in Belfast (cropped).jpg
4 10 Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi (1988-08-08) 8 August 1988 (age 33)
Prince Beatrice with Dave Clark crop.jpg
4 12 Princess Eugenie, Mrs Jack Brooksbank (1990-03-23) 23 March 1990 (age 31)
Princess Eugenie, 2017.jpg
3 14 The Earl of Wessex (1964-03-10) 10 March 1964 (age 57)
Prince Edward February 2015.jpg
4 15 Viscount Severn (2007-12-17) 17 December 2007 (age 14)
James, Viscount Severn 2016.jpg
4 16 Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor (2003-11-08) 8 November 2003 (age 18)
Lady Louise, 2017.jpg
3 17 The Princess Royal[fn 1] (1950-08-15) 15 August 1950 (age 71)
Princess Anne October 2015.jpg
Descendants of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
2 31 The Duke of Gloucester (1944-08-26) 26 August 1944 (age 77)
Duke of Gloucester (Grand Prior).jpg
3 32 Earl of Ulster (1974-10-24) 24 October 1974 (age 47)
4 33 Lord Culloden (2007-03-12) 12 March 2007 (age 14)
4 34 Lady Cosima Windsor (2010-05-20) 20 May 2010 (age 11)
3 35 Lady Davina Windsor (1977-11-19) 19 November 1977 (age 44)
3 38 Lady Rose Gilman (1980-03-01) 1 March 1980 (age 41)
Descendants of Prince George, Duke of Kent
2 41 The Duke of Kent (1935-10-09) 9 October 1935 (age 86)
HRH Duke of Kent.jpg
3 42 Earl of St Andrews (1962-05-26) 26 May 1962 (age 59)
4 CA Lord Downpatrick (1988-12-02) 2 December 1988 (age 33)
4 CA Lady Marina Charlotte Windsor (1992-09-30) 30 September 1992 (age 29)
4 43 Lady Amelia Windsor (1995-08-24) 24 August 1995 (age 26)
3 CA Lord Nicholas Windsor (1970-07-25) 25 July 1970 (age 51)
Lord Nicholas Windsor 2013.JPG
4 44 Albert Windsor (2007-09-22) 22 September 2007 (age 14)
4 45 Leopold Windsor (2009-09-08) 8 September 2009 (age 12)
4 46 Louis Windsor (2014-05-27) 27 May 2014 (age 7)
3 47 Lady Helen Taylor (1964-04-28) 28 April 1964 (age 57)
2 52 Prince Michael of Kent (1942-07-04) 4 July 1942 (age 79)
HRH Prince Michael of Kent 62 Allan Warren.jpg
3 53 Lord Frederick Windsor (1979-04-06) 6 April 1979 (age 42)
4 54 Maud Windsor (2013-08-15) 15 August 2013 (age 8)
4 55 Isabella Windsor (2016-01-16) 16 January 2016 (age 6)
3 56 Lady Gabriella Kingston (1981-04-23) 23 April 1981 (age 40)
2 57 Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy (1936-12-25) 25 December 1936 (age 85)
HRH The Princess Alexandra 04 25 10.png

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Princess Anne is not 9th in line, as could be expected by her birth order, but 17th. 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[]

  1. ^ "Royal Arms, Styles, and Titles of Great Britain". www.heraldica.org.
  2. ^ "Royal Styles and Titles of Great Britain: Documents". www.heraldica.org.

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.

External links[]

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