26. It was Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip who decided to give their descendants different last names than the rest of the royal family. While her grandfather King George V adopted Windsor as the family's surname in 1917, the couple chose in 1960 to also incorporate the Duke of Edinbu...
Queen Elizabeth II was the longest-reigning monarch in British history. Read about her young life, husband, children, grandchildren, death, funeral, and more.
Rainbow style of fashion of Queen Elizabeth II Fashion icon It's widely believed that Queen Elizabeth II share different personalities with Princess Diana – the former as silent and traditional and the latter as modern and outspoken. Bu...
In 1960, to make things more confusing, Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, decided to add their own spin to the Windsor name, distinguishing their descendants from the rest of the royal family. So her children and their children can use Mountbatten-Windsor as their surname on...
This repository contains a GEDitCOM II file (and one that is also compatible with GEDitCOM) for descendants of Queen Elizabeth II. In the repository, the genealogy file looks like a folder, but when viewed on the Mac, the entire folder is a MacOS package that can be opened and viewed in...
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Edward VI, and Mary I also used art to illustrate their power but it was Elizabeth, arguably the greatest Tudor of them all, who exploited royal portraiture to the full. The queen was very aware of the power of image and iconography. Encouraged by her adviser, John Dee, her portraits bec...
For many years, the fates of Queen Elizabeth, Leila Moore, and several of Moore’s peers have been knit together in a complex tale. Its plot concerns the breeding and care of the corgis that have been the personal companions of the Queen, as well as her public hallmark, since she was ...
Prince Philip’s marriage to Princess Elizabeth in 1947 thus represented one of the last iterations of this Queen Victoria’s dream. It reunited two of her descendants: Elizabeth through her father’s line, and Philip through the line of his mother, Princess ...
Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, wife of her father’s second cousin, later The Queen Mother, born The Honorable Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon Queen Elena of Italy, born Elena of Montenegro King George II of Greece, her paternal uncle