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Family tree of British monarchs. The following is a simplified family tree of the English, Scottish, and British monarchs. For more-detailed charts see: Family tree of the British royal family from James VI and I to the present.
Explore the genealogy of the British royal family from Alfred the Great to Charles III. See the royal coat of arms, the line of succession, and the historical timeline of the kings and queens of England and Scotland.
This is the family tree of the British royal family, from James I (who united the crowns of England and Scotland) to the present monarch, Charles III.
This is the family tree for monarchs of England (and Wales after 1282) from Alfred the Great to Elizabeth I of England. The House of Wessex family tree precedes this family tree and the family tree of the British royal family follows it.
- Queen Elizabeth II. April 21, 1926 - September 8, 2022. When Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was born, she was not a direct heir to the throne since her father was the second son of King George V. But after her grandfather died and her uncle, King Edward VIII, abdicated -- both within the same year -- Elizabeth’s father became King George VI.
- Prince Philip. June 10, 1921 - April 9, 2021. Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark was born in Corfu, Greece, as the youngest of five children. His father was Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and his mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, was Queen Victoria’s great-granddaughter.
- King Charles III. November 14, 1948. Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor acceded to the throne as King Charles III on the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, on September 8, 2022.
- Queen Camilla. July 17, 1947. Camilla Rosemary Shand met then-Prince Charles at a polo match when she was in her early 20s, before her first marriage to Andrew Parker Bowles in 1973.
The reigning king or queen is the country’s head of state. All political power rests with the prime minister (the head of government) and the cabinet, and the monarch must act on their advice. The table provides a chronological list of the sovereigns of Britain.
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Explore the family tree of the Kings and Queens of England from 871 to the present day. See the origins of kingship, the Norman Conquest, the Tudors, the Stuarts, the Hanoverians and more.
