Where this page refers to "the Queen" (as opposed to "the
Queen Mother", this generally refers to Elizabeth II. Following her death in
September 2022, it's not yet clear, in all cases, what will or will not
still apply in the reign of Charles III.
Other grandchildren of King George V, all of whom were first cousins to Elizabeth II and are first cousins once rmoved upwards to Charles:
Other places in the range 31 to 55 are occupied by descendants of the first
three of these; Princess Alexandra's descendants are numbered 57 to 62. Note that
positions numbered more than 42 are in doubt as there is uncertainty whether the
three children of Lord Nicholas Windsor are eligible. Lord Nicholas, who is the
second son of the current Duke of Kent, converted to Catholicism in 2001, and in
doing so he forfeited his right to succession. Depending on whether or not his
children remain eligible, the last two people in the above table may thus be
48th and 53rd respectively.
Elizabeth II's Official Birthday was celebrated on the first, second or (occasionally) third Saturday in June. This tradition goes back
to Edward VII; he chose this time in the hope of decent weather and the actual date has no significance. Whether or not Charles III will follow
this tradition has yet to be confirmed.
Elizabeth II's "annus horribilis" |
|
1992 |
The Queen Mother's age at death (30 March 2002) |
|
101 years, 238 days |
Elizabeth II's middle names |
|
Alexandra Mary |
The Queen Mother's middle names |
|
Angela Marguerite |
Prince Edward's TV production company (1993–2002; liquidated 2009) |
|
Ardent Productions |
Prince William's middle names |
|
Arthur Philip Louis |
Duke of Windsor's role in World War II: Governor of |
|
The Bahamas |
Family name, changed by British–based members to Mountbatten in 1917 (to hide its German origins
– it's a direct translation into English) |
|
Battenberg |
Independent boarding school for girls, in Kent, attended by Princess Anne from 1963 to 1968 (she left, aged 17,
with six O–Levels and two A–Levels) |
|
Benenden |
Before his accession to the throne, King George VI was known to his family and friends as |
|
Bertie |
Colour of Elizabeth II's blotting paper |
|
Black |
Regiment that Prince Harry joined, 2006 |
|
Blues and Royals |
Family name (maiden surname) of the Queen Mother |
|
Bowes–Lyon |
Prince Charles's first Navy command (minesweeper – Feb to Nov 1976) |
|
HMS Bronnington |
16th–century castle (completed 1508) near Tours, in central France, where the Duke and Duchess
of Windsor married in 1937 – lent to them by its owner, Charles Bedaux – a French–born American businessman and Nazi
sympathiser |
|
Chateau de Candé |
Annual allowance to the sovereign to cover expenses associated with his or her state duties |
|
Civil List |
The Queen Mother's official London residence, from 1953 until her death in 2002; then occupied by Charles
and Camilla – also William until 2011 and Harry until 2012 |
|
Clarence House |
Birthplace of Princess Anne (Charles, Andrew and Edward were all born at Buckingham Palace) |
Elizabeth II's bank |
|
Coutts' |
What Elizabeth II did for the last time at her father's funeral |
|
Curtsey |
Duchess of Gloucester: nationality before marriage |
|
Danish |
Family's name for Edward VIII, when Prince of Wales |
|
David |
Third son of George V (forename Henry); succeeded 1974 by his second son Richard (his elder son
William predeceased him by two years) who was Elizabeth II's first cousin |
|
Duke of Gloucester |
Elder brother of Princess Alexandra (forename Edward); grandson of George V and first cousin to the
Queen; married Katharine Worsley, 1961 |
|
Duke of Kent |
Title by which Elizabeth II was informally known in the Channel Islands |
|
Duke of Normandy |
The last Empress of India |
|
Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) |
Princess Anne's middle names |
|
Elizabeth Alice Louise |
Known in Private Eye as Brenda, and allegedly to her spouse as 'sausage' |
|
Elizabeth II |
Viscount Linley's relationship to Prince Charles, Princess Anne, etc. |
|
First cousin |
Residence of Edward VIII, also when Prince of Wales, in Windsor Great Park |
|
Fort Belvedere |
Mother of Diana, Princess of Wales |
|
Frances Shand–Kydd |
Grammar school in Victoria, Australia, at whose Timbertop campus Prince Charles spent two terms in 1966 |
|
Geelong |
Married Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark; father of Princess Alexandra; killed in a plane crash
while serving with the RAF, 1942 |
|
George, Duke of Kent |
Changed the name of Britain's Royal Family from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor |
|
George V |
School near Elgin, Scotland, attended by Prince Philip and Prince Charles |
|
Gordonstoun |
Taught Prince Andrew to drive a racing car |
|
Graham Hill |
Relationship of Queen Victoria to Elizabeth II (and to Prince Philip) |
|
Great–great–grandmother |
Prince Charles's country home (near Tetbury, Gloucestershire) |
|
Highgrove |
The three official royal residences: Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and |
|
Holyrood Palace |
Elizabeth II's youngest grandchild (second child and only son of Prince Edward) – born 17
December 2007 |
|
James, Viscount Severn |
Princess Margaret's official London residence |
|
Kensington Palace |
George, Earl of St, Andrews (born 1961): heir to the Duke of |
|
Kent |
Princess Anne's second husband (married in 1992, when he was a Commander in the Royal Navy; in
2007 he was promoted to Vice Admiral and in 2011 he was knighted) |
|
Timothy Laurence |
Patrick Anson – Elizabeth II's cousin, famous for his photography (died 2005 aged 66) |
|
Lord Lichfield |
Baronet and horticulturalist who had a widely–publicised affair with Princess Margaret
(18 years his senior) in the 1970s – a factor in the break–up of her marriage |
|
Roddy Llewellyn |
Youngest daughter of Edward VII (younger sister of George V); married her first cousin Prince Carl of
Denmark (her mother, Queen Alexandra, was the daughter of King Christian IX), and became Queen of Denmark when he succeeded as King Haakon VII;
mother of King Olav V, who died in 1991 |
|
Maud of Wales |
Family name of Prince Philip (before his marriage) |
|
Mountbatten |
Maternal uncle of Prince Philip, and a second cousin once removed of Elizabeth II: the last Viceroy of India
(February to August, 1947) and the first Governor–General after independence; assassinated by the IRA in 1979, while sailing off
Mullaghmore, Co. Sligo |
|
Lord (Earl Louis) Mountbatten (of Burma) |
Caribbean island on which Princess Margaret had a home |
|
Mustique |
Prince Charles's middle names |
|
Philip Arthur George |
Princess Anne's first husband (1973–92), and father of Elizabeth II's first grandchild;
nicknamed Fog (by Prince Charles) because he was "thick and wet" |
|
Mark Phillips |
Elizabeth II's first grandchild (born 1977); married Autumn Kelly, 2008; their first child,
and Elizabeth II's first great–grandchild, was born 29 December 2010 and named Savannah |
|
Peter Phillips |
Created a stir by revealing a tongue piercing, in 1998 (aged 17); married former England rugby union
international Mike Tindall in 2011 |
|
Zara Phillips |
Prince Charles's wedding to Camilla Parker–Bowles (April 2005) was postponed for one day to
avoid clashing with the funeral of |
|
Pope John Paul II |
As an early user of pocket watches, gave his name to a watch chain that passes from one waistcoat pocket to
another or to a buttonhole, to give easier access to the watch |
|
Prince Albert |
First child born to a reigning monarch in the 20th Century; served in the Falklands campaign |
|
Prince Andrew |
Prince Philip's father |
|
Prince Andrew |
George VI's first grandchild; Earl of Chester; first member of the Royal Family to gain a
university degree |
|
Prince Charles |
The first royal to visit the Republic of Ireland after independence (1995) |
Wrote and illustrated a children's book entitled The Old Man of Lochnagar –
published in 1980 in aid of his Trust – and read it on Jackanory |
Crashed an aeroplane on the Hebridean island of Islay in 1994 |
Author of the so–called 'black spider memos' – letters sent to ministers in
seven Government departments in 2004 and 2005, released in 2015 (after a 10–year battle by The Guardian) |
Sixth and youngest child of George V and Queen Mary: suffered from
epilepsy and was largely kept out of the public eye; died 1919, aged 13, after a severe fit |
|
Prince John |
Given the title Earl of Forfar in 2019 (on the occasion of his 55th birthday) |
|
Prince Edward |
Younger brother of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, and of Princess Alexandra; son of Prince George,
Duke of Kent, and thus grandson of George V and first cousin to Elizabeth II; married Marie–Christine von Reibnitz, 1978; father of
Lord Frederick Windsor and Lady Gabriella Windsor |
|
Prince Michael of Kent |
First royal to be interviewed on TV (1961); titles include Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich |
|
Prince Philip |
Married Angus Ogilvie, son of the 12th Earl of Airlie, in 1963 |
|
Princess Alexandra |
Elizabeth II's aunt by marriage, died 2004 – the oldest ever member of Britain's royal
family (102) |
|
Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester |
BBC Sports Personality of the Year, 1971 |
|
Princess Anne |
First of Elizabeth II's four children to marry, the event itself being the first royal wedding
transmitted live in colour on TV |
|
Princess Anne (to Mark Phillips) |
Second female in the line of succession, after Princess Charlotte |
|
Princess Beatrice |
The first Royal bride not to promise to obey her husband |
|
Princess Diana |
Born at 17 Bruton Street, London, 21 April 1926 |
|
Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) |
Married wine merchant Jack Brooksbank in 2018 |
|
Princess Eugenie |
Married Anthony Armstrong–Jones on May Day, 1960 – the first royal wedding to be televised
(he was created Earl of Snowdon and Viscount Linley 6 October 1961); known in Private Eye as Yvonne; appeared as herself in The Archers |
|
Princess Margaret |
Married the Duke of Kent, 1936; mother of Princess Alexandra, Duke of Kent and Prince Michael of Kent |
|
Princess Marina |
Born Marie–Christine von Reibnitz in 1945 in Karlsbad, which was then in the Nazi–controlled
Sudetenland but is now in the Czech Republic; first husband (1971–7) was banker Thomas Troubridge; after that marriage ended in divorce
she married Prince Michael of Kent, a grandson of George V and first cousin to Elizabeth II, 1978 |
|
Princess Michael of Kent |
Appointed President of the Football Association in 2006 |
|
Prince William |
Sang a karaoke version of the Bon Jovi hit Livin' on a Prayer, at the wedding of his
cousin Zara Phillips to Mike Tindall in 2011 |
Youngest daughter of the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinhourn |
|
Queen Mother |
Fleet of aircraft at the disposal of the sovereign |
|
Queen'/King's Flight |
Princess Margaret's middle name |
|
Rose |
Dukedom formerly held by the heirs to the Scottish throne, now by the heir to the throne of the
United Kingdom. Prince Charles and Camilla are known in Scotland as the Duke and Duchess of |
|
Rothesay |
Princess Diana born |
|
Sandringham (estate) |
Elizabeth II's only niece; Princess Anne's bridesmaid when she married Mark Phillips |
|
Lady Sarah Chatto (formerly Armstrong–Jones) |
George V changed the family name to Windsor, in 1915, from |
|
Saxe–Coburg & Gotha |
Maiden surname of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall |
|
Shand |
Viscount Linley: heir to the Earl of |
|
Snowdon |
Countess of Wessex: maiden name |
|
Sophie Rhys–Jones |
University at which Prince William and Catherine Middleton (later the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge) met and
began dating |
|
St. Andrews |
Figurine on the Queen's Rolls–Royce |
|
St. George and the dragon |
Prince Andrew's official residence, near Ascot |
|
Sunninghill |
Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, before their marriage |
|
Third cousins |
Name of the campus of Geelong Grammar School, in Victoria, Australia, where Prince Charles spent two
terms in 1966 |
|
Timbertop |
RAF officer, and equerry to King George VI, that Princess Margaret was not allowed to marry, because
he was divorced; died in 1995 |
|
Group–Capt. Peter Townsend |
Safari lodge in Kenya where Princess Elizabeth heard of her father's death |
|
Treetops |
Alternative name for the King's (Queen's) Birthday Parade – held on her (or his)
official birthday |
|
Trooping the Colour |
Prince Charles's college at Cambridge |
|
Trinity |
Taught Prince Charles to sail |
|
Uffa Fox |
David, son of Princess Margaret, Elizabeth II's only nephew; the first Royal to get a criminal record (banned
from driving in 1987) |
|
Viscount Linley |
Elizabeth II had removed in hospital in 1982 |
|
Wisdom tooth |