Queen Elizabeth Family Tree With Pictures
Katina Piccirilli
Family first. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip were the longest-married couple in the history of the British royal family before his April 2021 death, with many children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren to show for it.
Although Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, stepped back from their roles as senior royals in January 2020, and have since relocated to California, Elizabeth and Philip tried to maintain their strong relationship with their grandson and his firstborn, Archie.
In April 2021, Buckingham Palace confirmed that Philip "passed away peacefully" at the age of 99, one month after being discharged from his 28-day hospital stay. In September 2022, the queen died at age 96 at Balmoral estate in Scotland, officials confirmed. She was buried in Windsor next to her late husband later that same month.
Queen Elizabeth II's eldest child, Charles, Prince of Wales, was born November 14, 1948, and is the longest-serving heir apparent in British history. In 1981, he married Lady Diana Spencer, with whom he had two sons, Prince William and Prince Harry. The couple divorced in 1996. The following year, Diana died. Charles wed Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005. Charles and Camilla became king and queen consort in September 2022.
Queen Elizabeth II's eldest child, Charles, Prince of Wales, was born November 14, 1948, and is the longest-serving heir apparent in British history. In 1981, he married Lady Diana Spencer, with whom he had two sons, Prince William and Prince Harry. The couple divorced in 1996. The following year, Diana died in a car crash in Paris. Charles wed Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005. Charles and Camilla became king and queen consort in September 2022.
Born Prince Henry of Wales but commonly known as Prince Harry, King Charles III and Princess Diana's younger son was welcomed into the world on September 15, 1984. He is Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip's fourth grandchild. A former captain in the Blues and Royals of the British Army, Harry served twice on the front line in Afghanistan.
Anne, Princess Royal, is Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip's only daughter. At the time of her birth on August 15, 1950, she was third in line to the throne. From 1973 to 1992, she was married to Captain Mark Phillips, with whom she had two children, Peter Phillips and Zara Phillips. In 1992, she married Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence.
Peter Phillips, born November 15, 1977, was not given a royal title after mother Princess Anne thought he'd have a better chance at a normal life without one. A graduate of the University of Exeter, Phillips married Canadian management consultant Autumn Kelly in 2008. They gave the queen her first great-grandchild, a baby girl named Savannah Anne, in 2010, and in 2012, Kelly gave birth to a second daughter, Isla Elizabeth. The pair announced their separation in February 2020 after 12 years of marriage.
A respected British equestrian, Zara Phillips was born to Princess Anne and Mark Phillips on May 15, 1981. She is the second-eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II, and, like her brother, her mother decided not to give her a royal title. Married to rugby player Mike Tindall, Phillips is the mother of daughters Mia (born 2014) and Lena (born 2018) and son Lucas (2021).
Queen Elizabeth II gave birth to Prince Andrew on Febuary 19, 1960, eight years into her reign. In 1986, he married Sarah Ferguson, with whom he shares two daughters, Beatrice (1988) and Eugenie (1990). Two years after Eugenie's birth, however, the Duke and Duchess of York announced their separation; they officially divorced four years later, in 1996. They still lived together as of 2022.
A commander and honorary rear admiral in the Royal Navy, Prince Andrew was stripped of his titles and forced to step down from royal duties in 2021 amid sexual assault accusations. He was not allowed to wear his military dress uniform to the queen's funeral in September 2022, several months after he settled his lawsuit.
The fourth child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip was born on March 10, 1964. Married since 1999 to Sophie Rhys-Jones, a former public relations executive, Edward, Earl of Wessex, has two children with the Countess of Wessex: Lady Louise Windsor (2003) and James, Viscount Severn (2007).
Harry and Meghan's daughter was born on June 4, 2021, and was named after her great-grandmother Elizabeth. Her middle name is a tribute to Harry's late mother, Princess Diana. She is seventh in line to the throne. Her royal title is Princess Lilibet of Sussex.
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Starting in 1603, England and Scotland were ruled in a personal union under the Scottish House of Stuart. The two countries were legally merged in 1707, forming the Kingdom of Great Britain. Since then, 12 monarchs have ruled Great Britain.
While all 12 monarchs since 1707 have been related, there have been three main ruling houses. The first, the House of Stuart, ended with Queen Anne in 1714, who outlived all five of her children. Her second cousin King George I succeeded to the throne as a member of the House of Hanover.
With features reputed to be conspicuously African by her contemporaries, it is no wonder that the Black community, both in the U.S. and throughout the British Commonwealth, has rallied for generations around depictions of Queen Charlotte, portrayed as she usually is in the regal and sumptuous splendor of her coronation robes.
Queen Charlotte (1744-1818), wife of the English King George III (1738-1820), was directly descended from Margarita de Castro y Sousa, a Black branch of the Portuguese royal house. The riddle of Queen Charlotte's African ancestry was solved inadvertently as the result of an earlier investigation into imagery of the Black magi featured in certain 15th century Flemish paintings of the Christmas narrative.A couple of art historians had suggested that they must have been portraits of actual contemporaries since the artist, without seeing them, would not have been aware of the subtleties in coloring and facial bone structure of individuals of African descent, which these figures invariably represented. Enough evidence has been accumulated to propose that the models were, in all probability, members of the Portuguese de Sousa family. Several relatives had accompanied their cousin Princess Isabella to the Netherlands when she arrived there in 1429 to marry the grand duke, Philip the Good of Burgundy.
At least 492 lines of descent can be traced from Queen Charlotte through her triple ancestry from Margarita de Castro y Sousa to Martin Alfonso de Sousa Chichorro, the illegitimate son of King Alfonso of Portugal and his Moorish mistress, Oruana/Madragana. Interestingly enough, in a gene pool that was comparatively miniscule due to royal inbreeding, it was from Martin Alfonso's de Sousa wife, Ines de Valladares, that the British queen inherited most of her African Islamic ancestry.
Queen Charlotte's Portrait:
The African characteristics evident in so many of the queen's portraits certainly had political significance, since artists of that period were expected to play down, soften or even obliterate features in a subject's face, especially a woman's, that were not considered to meet the standards of beauty for the times.
Sir Allan Ramsay was the artist responsible for the majority of the paintings of the queen, and his representations of her were the most decidedly African of all her portraits. Ramsay's anti-slavery sentiments were well known. He'd also married the niece of Lord Mansfield, the English judge whose 1772 decision was the first in a series of rulings that finally ended slavery in the British Empire. It should be noted too that by the time Sir Ramsay was commissioned to do his first portrait of the queen, he was already, by marriage, uncle to Dido Elizabeth Lindsay, the Black grand-niece of Lord Mansfield.
Thus, from just a cursory look at the social awareness and political activism at that level of English society, it would be surprising if the queen's African features were of no significance to the Abolitionist movement.
Lord Mansfield's Black grand-niece, for example, Ms. Lindsay, was the subject of at least two formal full-sized portraits. Obviously prompted by or meant to appeal to abolitionist sympathies, they depicted the celebrated friendship between herself and a white cousin.
It is perhaps because of this fairly obvious case of pointed portraiture that makes one suspect that Queen Charlotte's coronation picture, copies of which were sent out to all four corners of the Empire, signified a specific stance on slavery held at least by that circle of the English intelligentsia to which Ramsay belonged.
For the initial work into Queen Charlotte's genealogy, a debt of gratitude is owed the History Department of McGill University. It was the director of the Burney Project (Fanny Burney, the prolific 19th century British diarist, had been secretary to the queen), Dr. Joyce Hemlow, who obtained from Olwen Hedly, the most recent biographer of the Queen Charlotte (1975), at least half a dozen quotes by her contemporaries regarding her features. Because of its "scientific" source, the most valuable of Dr. Hedley's references would probably be the one published in the autobiography of the royal family's physician, Baron Stockmar, where he described her as having "... a true mulatto face."
Perhaps the most literary of these allusions to her African appearance, however, can be found in the poem penned to her on the occasion of her wedding to George III and the coronation celebration that followed a fortnight later.
Throughout her life, the queen, who died Thursday at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, owned more than 30 of the dogs, according to the American Kennel Club. She was "one of the most prolific and dedicated Pembroke Welsh corgi breeders and ambassadors that the world has ever seen," the AKC story says.
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