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This is a complete list of the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren of King George V, the founder of the House of Windsor, and his queen Mary of Teck. The list includes deceased members, members who have become Catholic, royal and non-royal, legitimate and illegitimate members openly acknowledged by their ...
See Family tree of English monarchs, Family tree of Scottish monarchs, and Family tree of Welsh monarchs. This also includes England, Scotland and Wales; all part of the United Kingdom as well as the French Norman invasion. For a simplified view, see: Family tree of British monarchs.
The House of Windsor as we know it today began in 1917 when the family changed its name from the German “Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.” King Charles's great-grandfather, King George V, was the first ...
The House of Windsor is the reigning house of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.The house's name was inspired by the historic Windsor Castle estate. The house was founded on 17 July 1917, when King George V changed the name of the royal house from the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the English Windsor due to anti-German sentiment during the First World War.
Here, we break down who’s who in the Windsor family. royal family tree First comes Her Majesty, the Queen, who holds the highest level of the royal hierarchy.
The following is a simplified family tree of the English, Scottish, and British monarchs. For more-detailed charts see: Family tree of English monarchs, from Alfred the Great and Æthelstan to James VI and I; Family tree of Scottish monarchs, from Kenneth MacAlpin also to James VI and I; Family tree of Welsh monarchs; and
3rd Baron Windsor 1532–1574: Frederick Windsor 4th Baron Windsor 1559–1585: Henry Windsor 5th Baron Windsor 1562–1605: Thomas Windsor 6th Baron Windsor 1591–1642: Hon. Elizabeth Windsor: Dixie Hickman: Barony in abeyance: Abeyance terminated 1660 Earl of Plymouth (second creation, 1682) Thomas Hickman-Windsor 1st Earl of Plymouth 7th ...
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 ...