Ancestry of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

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Queen Elizabeth II is the daughter of George VI, the second eldest son of George V and Queen Mary, and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later Queen Elizabeth, and, after her daughter's accession to the throne, the Queen Mother, the daughter of Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and his wife, Nina Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck, the Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne.

Queen Elizabeth is the male-line great-granddaughter of Edward VII, who inherited the crown from his mother, Queen Victoria. His father, Victoria's consort, was Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; hence Queen Elizabeth is a patrilineal descendant of the German princely house of Wettin. She has Danish roots also in the main lines, and her lineage includes figures as diverse as Armenian princes, Mongol warriors and Muslim leaders.^[1]

Other notable members of the princely house are King Albert II of Belgium and former King Simeon II of Bulgaria. Through Victoria (as well as several other of her great-great-grandparents), she is descended from many English monarchs extending back to the House of Wessex in the 7th century, and from the Scottish royal house, the House of Stuart, and its predecessors, which can be traced back to the 6th century. There is a direct line of descent from William the Conqueror to Queen Elizabeth. As a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, she is related to the heads of most other reigning and non-reigning European royal houses such as the former Hohenzollern royal houses of Germany and Romania. Through her great-grandmother Queen Alexandra, she is descended from the Danish royal house of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a line of the North German house of Oldenburg, and one of the oldest in Europe ; other members are the Duke of Edinburgh, Margrethe II of Denmark, Harald V of Norway, Queen Sofia of Spain, Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and former King Constantine II of Greece, who are also all descended from Queen Victoria. She is further related to all ruling hereditary monarchs of Europe, as a descendant of Johan Willem Friso, Prince of Orange (1687 – 1711), common ancestor to all reigning European royal houses.

This table sets out the ancestry of Queen Elizabeth II for five generations, numbered according to the Ahnentafel genealogical numbering system.

1. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Parents

2. George VI of the United Kingdom
3. Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

Grandparents

4. George V of the United Kingdom (father of 2)
5. Princess Mary of Teck (mother of 2)
6. Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (father of 3)
7. Cecilia Cavendish-Bentnick (mother of 3)

Great-Grandparents

8. Edward VII of the United Kingdom (father of 4)
9. Princess Alexandra of Denmark (mother of 4)
10. Prince Francis, Duke of Teck (father of 5)
11. Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (mother of 5)
12. Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (father of 6)
13. Frances Dora Smith (mother of 6)
14. The Rev Charles Cavendish-Bentinck (father of 7) - 2nd marriage
15. Caroline Louisa Burnaby (mother of 7)

Great-Great-Grandparents

16. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (father of 8)
17. Victoria of the United Kingdom (mother of 8)
18. Christian IX of Denmark (father of 9)
19. Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel (mother of 9)
20. Duke Alexander of Württemberg (father of 10) - married in (morganatic marriage)
21. Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde (mother of 10)
22. Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (father of 11)
23. Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (mother of 11)
24. Thomas George Lyon-Bowes, styled Lord Glamis (father of 12)
25. Charlotte Grimstead (mother of 12)
26. Oswald Smith (father of 13)
27. Henrietta Hodgson (mother of 13)
28. Lord William Charles Cavendish-Bentinck (father of 14)
md. (as her 2nd husband)
29. Anne Wellesley, previously Lady Abdy (mother of 14)
30. Edwyn Burnaby (father of 15)
31. Anne Caroline Salisbury (mother of 15)

Great-Great-Great-Grandparents

32. Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (father of 16)
33. Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (mother of 16)
34. Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (father of 17) - as her 2nd husband
35. Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (mother of 17)
36. Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (father of 18)
37. Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel (mother of 18)
38. Prince William of Hesse-Cassel (father of 19)
39. Princess Louise Charlotte of Denmark (mother of 19)
40. Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (father of 20)
41. Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilberg (mother of 20)
42. Ladislas Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde (father of 21)
43. Baroness Agnes Inczedy de Nagy-Várad (mother of 21)
44. George III of the United Kingdom (father of 22)
45. Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (mother of 22)
46. Friedrich III, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel (father of 23)
47. Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen (mother of 23)
48. Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 11th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (father of 24)
49. Mary Carpenter (mother of 24)
50. Joseph Grimstead (father of 25)
51. Charlotte Walsh (mother of 25)
52. George Smith (father of 26)
53. Frances Mosley (mother of 26)
54. Very Rev. Robert Hodgson (father of 27)
55. Mary Tucker (mother of 27)
56. William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (Prime Minister) (father of 28)
57. Lady Dorothy Cavendish (mother of 28)
58. Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, born Richard Wesley (father of 29) - married after the birth of their children, who were thus illegitimate and debarred from any real or courtesy titles
59. Hyacinth Roland (mother of 29)
60. Edwin Andrew Burnaby (father of 30)
61. Mary Browne (mother of 30)
62. Thomas Salisbury (father of 31)
63. Frances Webb (mother of 31)

[edit] Ancestors

**Elizabeth's ancestors in three generations**
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (born: 1926)	Father: George VI of the United Kingdom (1895–1952)	Paternal grandfather: George V of the United Kingdom (1865–1936)	Paternal great-grandfather: Edward VII of the United Kingdom (1841–1910)
			Paternal great-grandmother: Alexandra of Denmark (1844–1925)
		Paternal grandmother: Mary of Teck (1867–1953)	Paternal great-grandfather: Francis, Duke of Teck (1837–1900)
			Paternal great-grandmother: Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (1833–1897)
	Mother: Elizabeth Bowes Lyon (1900–2002)	Maternal grandfather: Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1855–1944)	Maternal great-grandfather: Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1824–1904)
			Maternal great-grandmother: Frances Dora Smith (1833–1922)
		Maternal grandmother: Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck (1862–1938)	Maternal great-grandfather: Rev. Charles Cavendish-Bentinck (1817–1865)
			Maternal great-grandmother: Caroline Louisa Burnaby (1832–1918)