The Royal Family Tree

Drag to move around the tree, use the wheel or pinch to zoom, and select anyone for their card, with their parents, marriages and children and a link to their article where there is one. Line of succession picks out the sovereigns of the Realm from George III to George V.

How to read it

Everyone is placed down the page by year of birth, so a generation reads across as a band, and across the page by house, so a family reads down as a column. A queen or a husband who married in, and whose own family is not in the tree, is drawn beside their spouse. A red double line is a marriage between people drawn side by side; a red dashed curve joins a marriage across houses.

Three marriages hold the tree together. Caroline of Hanover, Ernest V’s sister, married Heinrich I in 2002, so the German Emperor is Ernest V’s nephew and the King’s first cousin. Queen Christina of Sweden married Ernest V in 2009, and through her mother’s family she descends from Prince Albert, who went home to Coburg after the Queen was murdered in 1840 and married again. And the Hohenzollerns of today descend from Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, the daughter of Victoria’s half-sister, so the Emperor’s family and the King’s both run back to the Duchess of Kent.

The House of Mackinac, the grand-ducal house of Michigan, descends from George III through his son the Duke of Cambridge, whose youngest son was made Grand Duke at the age of eight in 1836. The Bernadottes of Minnesota descend from Oscar I of Sweden through his son August, Duke of Dalarna, who was given the grand duchy in 1858.