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The royal family tree

When the Queen was born on


The Queen Mother, the
the 21st of April 1926, her
grandfather, King George V, widow of the late King
was on the throne and her George VI, celebrated
uncle was his heir. her 100th anniversary in
The death of her 2000, but she carried
grandfather and the
abdication of her uncle
her age well and
brought her father to the continued to fulfil many
throne as King public duties every year
George VI

King George VI The Queen Mother


1895-1952 1900-2002

As a child Queen studied Queen's only sister, Princess


constitutional history Margaret, the Countess of
Snowdon,
and law as well as art
One of the most
and music. In addition she
unconventional members of
learned to ride and the royal family and started
acquired her enthusiasm the chain of divorces
for horses. As she grew in it in 1978. She was also well-
older she began to take known for her charity work,
including her support for
part in public life, making
Barbados, the
her first broadcast in
Girl Guides Association, and
her early “teens” the St. John Ambulance
Princess Elizabeth Brigade. Princess Margaret
1926 1930 -2002
The young Princess Elizabeth II
The Queen's husband, the Duke of
married Philip, the Duke of
Edinburgh, was born in 1921 and
Edinburgh, in November 1947
served in the Royal Navy.
when she was just out of her
He takes a great deal of interest in
twenties. She came to the industry, in the achievements of
throne in her mid-twenties after young people (at the age of thirty
her father's death in 1952 and he founded the Duke of Edinburgh's
was crowned in Westminster Award Scheme) and in saving wild
Abbey in June 1953. animals from extinction

The Queen Elizabeth Duke of Edinburgh (Prince Phillip)


1953 1921-2021

Charles, the Prince of Wales Prince Andrew Prince Edward Princess Anne
1948 1960 1964 1950
After Diana's death and Prince
Princess Diana was known for wearing
Charles’s second marriage to Mrs.
fashionable, expensive clothes, but she
Camilla Parker Bowles in
was also known
2005 when they both were long
as a caring person who worked actively
past fifty, many people asked if
for many different charity
Charles would be king or the
organizations, especially those
crown
which supported people with AIDS or
would go to his eldest son, William.
opposed the use of landmines.
Prince William, the Duke of
In 1997, she started a romantic
Cambridge, is in his thirties now 2005
1996 relationship with the businessman Dodi
and
Al-Fayed, and they were both killed in a
looks very much like his mother. He
car crash in Paris. Her death was one of
married Catherine Middleton, who
the biggest news stories of the 1990s,.
is the same age, in 2011 Mrs. Camilla Parker Bowles
Charles, the Prince of Wales Princess Diana
1948 1961 - 1997

Catherine Middleton Prince William Prince Harry


1982 1982 1984
Catherine Middleton Prince William
1982 1982

Prince George of Cambridge Princess Charlotte of Cambridge Prince Louis of Cambridge


2013 2015 2018

The royal family of the future

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