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.

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The line of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, 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 Catholic (labelled "CA" in the table) and are thus excluded from the line of succession to the British throne. The remaining 49 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

Generations
from George V
Place in the
line of succession
TitleBirth (& age)Image
Descendants of King George VI
3The Sovereign The King 14 November 1948 (age 76)
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41 The Prince of Wales 21 June 1982 (age 42)
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52 Prince George of Wales 22 July 2013 (age 11)
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53 Princess Charlotte of Wales 2 May 2015 (age 9)
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54 Prince Louis of Wales 23 April 2018 (age 6)
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45 The Duke of Sussex 15 September 1984 (age 40)
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56 Prince Archie of Sussex 6 May 2019 (age 5)
57 Princess Lilibet of Sussex 4 June 2021 (age 3)
38 The Duke of York 19 February 1960 (age 64)
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49 Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi 8 August 1988 (age 36)
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412 Princess Eugenie, Mrs Jack Brooksbank 23 March 1990 (age 34)
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315 The Duke of Edinburgh 10 March 1964 (age 60)
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416 Earl of Wessex 17 December 2007 (age 17)
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417 Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor 8 November 2003 (age 21)
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318 The Princess Royal [fn 1] 15 August 1950 (age 74)
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232 The Duke of Gloucester 26 August 1944 (age 80)
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333 Earl of Ulster 24 October 1974 (age 50)
434 Lord Culloden 12 March 2007 (age 17)
435 Lady Cosima Windsor 20 May 2010 (age 14)
336 Lady Davina Windsor 19 November 1977 (age 47)
339 Lady Rose Gilman 1 March 1980 (age 44)
242 The Duke of Kent 9 October 1935 (age 89)
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343 Earl of St Andrews 26 May 1962 (age 62)
4CA Lord Downpatrick 2 December 1988 (age 36)
4CA Lady Marina Windsor 30 September 1992 (age 32)
444 Lady Amelia Windsor 24 August 1995 (age 29)
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3CA Lord Nicholas Windsor 25 July 1970 (age 54)
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445Albert Windsor22 September 2007 (age 17)
446Leopold Windsor8 September 2009 (age 15)
447Louis Windsor27 May 2014 (age 10)
348 Lady Helen Taylor 28 April 1964 (age 60)
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253 Prince Michael of Kent 4 July 1942 (age 82)
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354 Lord Frederick Windsor 6 April 1979 (age 45)
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455Maud Windsor15 August 2013 (age 11)
456Isabella Windsor16 January 2016 (age 9)
357 Lady Gabriella Kingston 23 April 1981 (age 43)
258 Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy 25 December 1936 (age 88)
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See also

Notes

  1. Princess Anne is not 8th in line, as could be expected by her birth order, but 16th. This is a result of the rule of male-preference primogeniture under the law of the Succession to the British throne prior to 2015.

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