British Royal Family

The British Royal Family are those who bear the crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and their immediate family and heirs.

Line of Succession

 * Queen Victoria (20 June 1837 – 22 January 1901)
 * King Edward VII (22 January 1901 – 6 May 1910)
 * King George V (6 May 1910 – 20 January 1936)
 * married Princess Viktoria Augusta, of the Swedish House of Bernadotte, a woman whom Queen Elizabeth called 'strawberry blonde' in her youth. She is the daughter of Ocar II of Sweden
 * King George VI (20 January 1936 - 6 February 1952)
 * married Princess Charlotte of Prussia, a striking blonde woman descended from Prince Albert of Prussia, who gave Elizabeth her blonde hair.
 * Queen Elizabeth II (6 February 1952 - 14 April 2022)
 * King Edward VIII (14 April 2022 - 19 May 2023)
 * Eldest son of Queen Elizabeth, married Hanoverian princess Julia Anne in 1978.
 * King William V (19 May 2023- 23 October 2043)
 * First son of King Edward VIII, married Katherine Middleton, a half-German royal.

Tragedies
During the first world War, the royal family was saddened to learn that the son of King George V, Edward, was killed during the trench warfare, close to the end of the fighting in 1916. The king continued on bravely, and the young prince was given a state funeral.

House of Saxe-Coburg-Gothe-Hohenzollern
With the marriage of George VI to the young and beautiful Princess Charlotte of the House of Hohenzollern, the British Royal Family took on the additional name of Hohenzollern, though for those without a royal title, they use the last name of Saxe-Coburg. Some suggested during the thirties to adopt a more British name, such as 'Windsor' but nothing ever came of such talk. The invasion of Germany during the second world War meant a large number of their royalty escaped to the UK, and a number of the found spouses in the British aristocracy.