House
House of Windsor
Royal house of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms
- Dated from 17 July 1917 CE
- Also called Windsor dynasty, Windsors
A family
on the record,
reign by reign.
Documented kin
Members · 9
The house, member by member
One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.
What this means
People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.
3 children in the house
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George VI 1895 CE – 1952 CE -
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester 1900 CE – 1974 CE -
Prince George, Duke of Kent 1902 CE – 1942 CE
Every member
People whose own records place them in this house.
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Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn1 May 1850 CE – 16 January 1942 CE · British prince (1850–1942), Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916 -
George V3 June 1865 CE – 20 January 1936 CE · King of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936 -
Marie of Romania29 October 1875 CE – 18 July 1938 CE · last Queen consort of Romania (1875-1938; r. 1914-1927) -
George VI14 December 1895 CE – 6 February 1952 CE · Child of George V -
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester31 March 1900 CE – 10 June 1974 CE · Child of George V -
Prince George, Duke of Kent20 December 1902 CE – 25 August 1942 CE · Child of George V -
Charles IIIfrom 14 November 1948 CE · King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (born 1948) -
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsorfrom 19 February 1960 CE · third child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born 1960) -
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburghfrom 10 March 1964 CE · British prince (born 1964); youngest child of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Succession
Offices held in the house
The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.
Member of the House of Lords
- 7 holders
- 1 overlap
- 4 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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until 11 November 1999 CE Charles III King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (born 1948) -
Overlap held at the same time as Charles III
23 July 1986 CE – 11 November 1999 CE Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor third child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born 1960) Has references -
19 June 1999 CE – 11 November 1999 CE Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh British prince (born 1964); youngest child of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Has references
No dates recorded 4
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Dates unrecorded George V King of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936 -
Dates unrecorded Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn British prince (1850–1942), Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916 -
Dates unrecorded Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester British soldier (1900–1974), Governor-General of Australia from 1945 to 1947 -
Dates unrecorded Prince George, Duke of Kent Royal Navy admiral (1902–1942), member of the House of Windsor
Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
- 4 holders
- 4 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
No dates recorded 4
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Dates unrecorded George V King of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936 -
Dates unrecorded Charles III King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (born 1948) -
Dates unrecorded Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn British prince (1850–1942), Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916 -
Dates unrecorded Prince George, Duke of Kent Royal Navy admiral (1902–1942), member of the House of Windsor
Duke of York
- 3 holders
- 2 gaps
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Gap about 10 years before the next in this house
3 June 1920 CE – 11 December 1936 CE George VI King of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952 Has references -
Gap about 50 years before the next in this house
23 July 1986 CE – 17 October 2025 CE Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor third child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born 1960) Has references
Monarch of Canada
- 3 holders
- 1 gap
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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6 May 1910 CE – 20 January 1936 CE George V King of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936 -
11 December 1936 CE – 6 February 1952 CE George VI King of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952 -
Gap about 70 years before the next in this house
from 8 September 2022 CE Charles III King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (born 1948)
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.
Religious context · a separate claim
Affiliation
Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.
What this means
Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.
Affiliations recorded on members
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Church of England 6 members -
Anglicanism 2 members -
Romanian Orthodox Church 1 member -
Baháʼí Faith 1 member -
Christianity 1 member
An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.
Connections
How House of Windsor connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 3
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Transmission 1
What this means
Teaching passed from one person to another. Not biological ancestry and not automatic institutional succession.
Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Place 1
What this means
Where something is, or is documented. A location is not by itself evidence of activity.
Does not imply that anything is documented to have happened there
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
4 statements on this record
- 4 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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