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
Descendants of King George VI
2 Sovereign Queen Elizabeth II (1926-04-21) 21 April 1926
3 1 The Prince of Wales (1948-11-14) 14 November 1948
4 2 The Duke of Cambridge (1982-06-21) 21 June 1982
5 3 Prince George of Cambridge (2013-07-22) 22 July 2013
5 4 Princess Charlotte of Cambridge (2015-05-02) 2 May 2015
5 5 Prince Louis of Cambridge (2018-04-23)23 April 2018 (age 2 years 3 months)
4 6 The Duke of Sussex (1984-09-15) 15 September 1984
5 7 Archie Mountbatten-Windsor (2019-05-06) 6 May 2019
3 8 The Duke of York (1960-02-19) 19 February 1960
4 9 Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi (1988-08-08) 8 August 1988
4 10 Princess Eugenie, Mrs Jack Brooksbank (1990-03-23) 23 March 1990
3 11 The Earl of Wessex (1964-03-10) 10 March 1964
4 12 Viscount Severn (2007-12-17) 17 December 2007
4 13 Lady Louise Windsor (2003-11-08) 8 November 2003
3 14 The Princess Royal[fn 1] (1950-08-15) 15 August 1950
Descendants of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
2 27 The Duke of Gloucester (1944-08-26) 26 August 1944
3 28 Earl of Ulster (1974-10-24) 24 October 1974
4 29 Lord Culloden (2007-03-12) 12 March 2007
4 30 Lady Cosima Windsor (2010-05-20) 20 May 2010
3 31 Lady Davina Windsor (1977-11-19) 19 November 1977
3 34 Lady Rose Gilman (1980-03-01) 1 March 1980
Descendants of Prince George, Duke of Kent
2 37 The Duke of Kent (1935-10-09) 9 October 1935
3 38 Earl of St Andrews (1962-05-26) 26 May 1962
4 CA Lord Downpatrick (1988-12-02) 2 December 1988
4 CA Lady Marina Charlotte Windsor (1992-09-30) 30 September 1992
4 39 Lady Amelia Windsor (1995-08-24) 24 August 1995
3 CA Lord Nicholas Windsor (1970-06-25) 25 June 1970
4 40 Albert Windsor (2007-09-22) 22 September 2007
4 41 Leopold Windsor (2009-09-08) 8 September 2009
4 42 Louis Windsor (2014-05-27) 27 May 2014
3 43 Lady Helen Taylor (1964-04-28) 28 April 1964
2 48 Prince Michael of Kent (1942-07-04) 4 July 1942
3 49 Lord Frederick Windsor (1979-04-06) 6 April 1979
4 50 Maud Windsor (2013-08-15) 15 August 2013
4 51 Isabella Windsor (2016-01-16) 16 January 2016
3 52 Lady Gabriella Kingston (1981-04-23) 23 April 1981
2 53 Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy (1936-12-25) 25 December 1936

See also

Notes
  1. 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
  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.
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