Wow,,,it's 6:04am my time and there are 13 users besides myself browsing this thread. I have never seen that many folks browsing a thread before.
Good job Alpha. This thread has been your baby.
Sorry for my inability to take the royal conspiracy seriously, but, I have been giving it some thought. I think there may be a reason for that.
I would have to say,,,there are very few power structures out there that make the face of the franchise, the true decision maker.
If there is something to your conspiracy theory in regards to this royalty thing, I suggest you look deeper than the ruling monarchs pictured on tabloids.
The British Royal Family
List of members
This is a list of current members of the Royal Family:
Collaterals
There are a few immediate family members (a spouse and the children and grandchildren of its current full members) carrying no official style who are sometimes in listings:
- VAdm Tim Laurence (The Princess Royal's second and current husband)
- Mr & Mrs Peter Phillips (The Princess Royal's son by Mark Phillips, and his wife, to whom the Queen's first great-grandchild, a daughter was born on 29 December 2010, named Savannah)
- Miss Zara Phillips, MBE (The Princess Royal's daughter by Mark Phillips) & Mike Tindall, her fiancé
- Earl of Ulster (The Duke of Gloucester's son) and his wife, Claire, nee Booth and their children: Xan Windsor, Lord Culloden and Lady Cosima Windsor
- The Lady Davina Lewis, nee Windsor (The Duke of Gloucester's elder daughter) and her husband, Gary Lewis and their daughter, Senna Lewis
- The Lady Rose Gilman, nee Windsor (The Duke of Gloucester's younger daughter) and her husband, George Gilman and their daughter, Lyla Gilman
- Earl of St Andrews (The Duke of Kent's elder son) and his wife, Sylvana, nee Tomaselli and their children: Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick, The Lady Marina-Charlotte Windsor, and The Lady Amelia Windsor
- Lord Nicholas Windsor (The Duke of Kent's younger son) and his wife, Lady Nicholas, nee Princess Paola Doimi de Lupis de Frankopan, and their sons: Albert Windsor, Esq. and Leopold Windsor, Esq.
- The Lady Helen Taylor, nee Windsor (The Duke of Kent's daughter) and her husband, Timothy Taylor and their children: Columbus Taylor, Cassius Taylor, Eloise Taylor, and Estella Taylor
- Lord Frederick Windsor (Prince Michael of Kent's son) and his wife, Lady Frederick, nee Sophie Winkelman
- The Lady Gabriella Windsor (Prince Michael of Kent's daughter)
- James Ogilvy (Princess Alexandra's son) and his wife, Mrs James Ogilvy, nee Julia Rawlinson and their children: Alexander Ogilvy and Flora Ogilvy
- Marina Ogilvy (Princess Alexandra's daughter) and her children: Christian Mowatt and Zenouska Mowatt
The following persons are descendants (or widows) of the younger children of
Queen Victoria,
King Edward VII, and King George V:
- The Earl of Harewood (grandson and first grandchild of George V through his daughter Mary, Princess Royal), his second wife, and his children, and grandchildren, as well as the children and grandchildren of his now deceased brother, Gerald Lascelles.
- The Duke of Fife (female-line great-grandson of Edward VII) and his children and grandchildren
- The Lady Saltoun (widow of Alexander Ramsay of Mar, a female-line grandson of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, the third son of Queen Victoria), and her children and grandchildren
- The Marquess of Milford Haven, grandson of George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, and great-grandson of HGDH Princess Victoria, eldest daughter of HRH The Princess Alice The Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine, 2nd daughter of HM Queen Victoria, and his family
- The Countess Mountbatten of Burma (elder daughter of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, youngest son of HGDH Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine) and her family
The Earl of Harewood is a female-line first cousin of the Queen. The Duke of Fife, the Marquess of Milford Haven, the Countess Mountbatten of Burma, and the Lady Saltoun, and their respective families, as well as Lord Harewood's descendants, are so distant from the reigning Sovereign that they are relatives of, rather than members of, the Royal Family.
None of these persons receive any money from the State or undertake official engagements on behalf of the Queen. However, the Queen does invite them to private family functions and to participate in official royal occasions, such as the
Trooping the Colour, the
Golden Jubilee celebrations, and ceremonial or state funerals.
There are three living former spouses of members of the British Royal Family:
Recently deceased members of the Royal Family include:
Sir
Angus Ogilvy, who died in 2004, was the husband of Princess Alexandra, The Hon. Lady Ogilvy and a first-cousin-in law of the Queen. He supported his wife in her Royal duties and sometimes accompanied the Princess during her Royal tours abroad. As a husband of a Princess of Blood Royal, he was listed as an immediate member of the Royal Family in the same way as it is today with The Princess Royal's current husband, Vice-Admiral
Timothy Laurence.
The Prince of Wales' first wife,
Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a car crash in 1997. They had divorced in 1996. She lost the HRH title but was allowed the style "Princess of Wales" and remained a member of the Royal Family to reflect the fact she was the mother of the second and third in line to the throne, Princes William and Harry.
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