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) and the male-line descendants of Queen Elizabeth II (1952 Order-in-Council). According to these two Orders-in-Council, male-line female descendants lose the name Windsor upon marriage.

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). However, Alice's brother, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and his children, remained British dynasts for life, keeping their birth rights to the throne. Until he was deprived of this in 1919, he was also a British prince as a male-line grandson of Queen Victoria.

At the time of the royal family name change in 1917, there were living members of an older branch of British royals from the House of Hanover, descended from Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, King George III's son and Queen Victoria's paternal uncle. Holding the Dukedom of Cumberland and Teviotdale in the British peerage, as male-line descendants of a sovereign they were not only considered dynasts but also held formally recognised titles and dignities of British princes and princesses.

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 Descendants of George V in male line Descendants of Elizabeth II in male line

Generationsfrom George VPlace in theline of successionTitleBirth (& age)Image 3 The Sovereign The King 4 1 The Prince of Wales 5 2 Prince George of Wales 5 3 Princess Charlotte of Wales 5 4 Prince Louis of Wales 4 5 The Duke of Sussex 5 6 Prince Archie of Sussex 5 7 Princess Lilibet of Sussex 3 8 Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor 4 9 Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi 4 12 Princess Eugenie, Mrs Jack Brooksbank 3 16 The Duke of Edinburgh 4 17 Earl of Wessex 4 18 Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor 3 19 The Princess RoyalPrincess Anne is not 8th in line, as could be expected by her birth order, but 18th. This is a result of the rule of male-preference primogeniture under the law of the Succession to the British throne prior to 2015. 2 33 The Duke of Gloucester 3 34 Earl of Ulster 4 35 Lord Culloden 4 36 Lady Cosima Windsor 3 37 Lady Davina Windsor 3 40 Lady Rose Gilman 2 43 The Duke of Kent 3 44 Earl of St Andrews 4 CA Lord Downpatrick 4 CA Lady Marina Windsor 4 45 Lady Amelia Windsor 3 CA Lord Nicholas Windsor 4 46 Albert Windsor 4 47 Leopold Windsor 4 48 Louis Windsor 3 49 Lady Helen Taylor 2 54 Prince Michael of Kent 3 55 Lord Frederick Windsor 4 56 Maud Windsor 4 57 Isabella Windsor 3 58 Lady Gabriella Kingston 2 59 Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy

See also British royal family British prince British princess Mountbatten-Windsor Descendants of George V Windsor, Berkshire Windsor Castle

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References

Further reading Longford, Elizabeth Harman (Countess of Longford). The Royal House of Windsor. Revised ed. Crown, 1984. Roberts, Andrew. The House of Windsor. University of California Press, 2000.

External links Official website of the Royal Family