Queen Elizabeth’s Family Tree—All About the British Royals’ Lineage, From Charles to Lucas Tindall
Then-Princess Elizabeth, Lieutenant Phillip Mountbatten, her then-fiance, her mother, then-Queen Elizabeth, (later the Queen Mother) and her father, King George VI, in a family photograph made shortly before the Elizabeth and Philip's wedding.
Queen Elizabeth II and her family tree have long fascinated those of us who grew up on Disney movies and fairy tales. Our obsession with the British royals is nothing new, throughout history people have been entranced by those residing in Buckingham Palace. Queen Elizabeth celebrated 70 years on the throne before her death on Sept. 8, 2022.
The Queen and her family are constantly in the news, from King Charles to his sons Prince William and Prince Harry (as well as her son Prince Andrew, though his news is usually atrocious). With Queen Elizabeth II's legacy being the longest-serving monarch in the history of the British monarchy, we’re curious about the rulers who came before her.
Here is everything you need to know about Queen Elizabeth II’s family tree.
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Royal Family Tree
1. King Charles
The 73-year-old former Prince of Wales is the queen and Prince Philip's eldest son. He spent 70 years as first in line for the throne.
Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer in 1981 and they had two sons: Prince William and Prince Harry. He and Princess Diana divorced in 1996, a year before her death in a car crash. In 2005, he married Camilla Parker-Bowles. In 2022, the queen made a platinum jubilee statement in which she expressed her "sincere wish" that Camilla—who at the time had the title Duchess of Cornwall—be crowned queen consort when Charles becomes king.
2. Prince William
Prince William was born in 1982 to Charles and Princess Diana. He married Kate Middleton in a lavish Westminster Abbey ceremony in 2011, on which occasion they became the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. After the queen's death, they inherited Charles' title as the Duke and and Duchess of Wales. They have three children: Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.
3. Prince George
Nine-year-old Prince George of Cambridge is third in line to the throne.
In 2019, he and his sister Princess Charlotte made their Christmas Day debut, when they were pictured walking to service on Christmas morning alongside the other members of the royal family.
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4. Princess Charlotte
Princess Charlotte of Cambridge made history when she was born in 2015. Thanks to the laws of male-preference primogeniture having been changed several years earlier, she became the first girl born in the royal family who would not automatically be pushed further down the line of succession by the birth of subsequent brothers.
If the rules had not been changed in 2013, her little brother Prince Louis would be higher in line to the throne than her.
5. Prince Louis
Prince Louis of Cambridge was born in 2018. Things we know about him so far: he likes bikes and rainbow paint. The 5-year-old also makes funny faces at royal events—and we love him for it.
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6. Prince Harry
Although Prince Harry stepped back as a senior member of the royal family in 2020—relocating to California with his wife Duchess Meghan and later partaking in a bombshell interview concerning 'Sussexit' and his scathing memoir Spare—he is still sixth in line to the throne.
He was born in 1984 and in 2018 married American actor Meghan Markle. The two were given the titles of Duke and Duchess of Sussex. They opened up in their interview with Oprah Winfrey about the pressures and difficulties they faced within the royal institution, alleging that 'concerns' were raised about their future son's skin tone and that Meghan had eventually struggled with suicidal ideation.
Harry and Meghan are parents to two children, Archie and Lili.
7. Archie Mountbatten-Windsor
Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor was born in 2019 and is being raised in Montecito, California alongside his sister. He spent the first months of his life in Frogmore Cottage on the Windsor Estate before the Sussexes relocated. He has red hair just like Prince Harry!
8. Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor
Harry and Meghan named their daughter Lilibet Diana after Harry's grandmother the queen ('Lilibet' was the family's pet name for her) and Harry's late mother Princess Diana. However, when her birth was announced in June 2021 it was stated that she would be known simply as 'Lili.'
Almost two months after her birth, questions were raised when the royal family had failed to update their website so that she appeared in the line of succession. Eventually, she was added as eighth in line to the throne, behind her brother Archie.
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9. Prince Andrew
Prince Andrew, born in 1960, is Queen Elizabeth II's second son and has the title Duke of York. He and his brother Prince Edward are ahead of their older sister Princess Anne in the line of succession because the rules of male-preference primogeniture still applied at the time of her birth.
Andrew married Sarah Ferguson in 1986 and the couple have two daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie. Andrew and Sarah, also known as Fergie, divorced in 1996,
The prince was friends with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and took part in a disastrous BBC interview in 2019 in which he said he had no regrets about the friendship because, in his words, “the people that I met and the opportunities that I was given to learn either by him or because of him were actually very useful.”
In 2022, Queen Elizabeth stripped Andrew of his military titles and patronages. Andrew subsequently settled his lawsuit with Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the woman who accused Andrew of sexual abuse and claims that Epstein paid her $15,000 to have sex with the prince.
10. Princess Beatrice
34-year-old Princess Beatrice is tenth in line to the throne. In 2020, she married Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in an intimate 'pandemic wedding' that was attended by her grandmother the queen and her grandfather Prince Philip. She is stepmother to Edoardo's 7-year-old son, Wolfie.
In September 2021, Beatrice and Edoardo welcomed their daughter Sienna to the world.
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11. Sienna Mapelli Mozzi
The birth of Sienna Elizabeth Mapelli Mozzi in 2021 bumped her aunt, Princess Eugenie, further down the line of succession, replacing her as 11th in line to the throne.
Her middle name pays tribute to her great-grandmother the queen.
12. Princess Eugenie
At the time of her birth in 1990, Princess Eugenie was sixth in line to the throne but has since become 12th. Currently, her cousin Prince Harry, with whom she is close, holds her former place in the line of succession.
In 2018, she married Jack Brooksbank in a televised ceremony in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.
Their son August was born Feb. 9, 2021.
13. August Brooksbank
August Philip Hawke Brooksbank turned two years old in February, with his mother paying tribute to 'our little hero Augie' on Instagram.
He takes his middle name from his great-grandfather Prince Philip, who died two months after August was born.
14. Ernest George Ronnie Brooksbank
Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank announced on Instagram that their baby boy, Ernest George Ronnie Brooksbank, was born on May 30, 2023. He came into the world at 8:49 a.m. local time and weighed 7 pounds, 1 ounce.