Royal Houses

United Kingdom

The Royal House — Accession and Coronation — Marriages — Properties — Orders, Decorations and Military Ranks — Heraldry — Proclamations, Letters Patent and Warrants — Loyal Addresses from the University of Cambridge — Genealogy — Ceremonies, Customs and Protocol — Obituaries — Organisations — Bibliography — Miscellaneous — Selected Links

The Royal House

• The Royal House (extensive official site) – including
  • The Court Circular - the latest issue is at the bottom of the page; the remainder of the page is devoted to search boxes
  • Press releases
  • Official links
  • Family tree (as diagram)
  • Royal Insight
• Specific members of the Royal Family:
  • The Prince of Wales (extensive official site)
    • The marriage between the Prince of Wales and Mrs Parker Bowles – Written ministerial statement by the Lord Chancellor and a statement from the Registrar General for England and Wales
    • Declaration of consent to the marriage by the Queen
  • The Duke of Gloucester from the site of the the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem.
  • Prince Michael of Kent (official site)
• Much general information is available from the Royal Connections section of Debrett's
• Pictures: On postcards; more cards; in the Daily Mirror; by Richard Stone; Hulton

Accession and Coronation

• The Coronation of the Queen – including links to video
• The television coverage of the Coronation – including an audio clip and a video clip
• The Queen's Coronation (text of service) [also Australian mirror]
  • King George V Coronation Medal and King George VI Coronation Medal
  • Questions
• Forms of Prayer for the Anniversary of the day of the Accession of the Reigning Sovereign – from the Book of Common Prayer (1662); also of interest:
  • A history of the Prayers for the Royal Family
  • State prayers
• The Coronation of King George III and Queen Charlotte (including coronation regalia)
• The Legitimation of Authority – Divine and Human – an article on coronation
• Act for the Naturalization of the Most Excellent Princess Sophia, Electress and Duchess Dowager of Hanover, and the Issue of her Body – from the Home Office: Home > Laws & Policy > Policy instructions > NIs > E-I > Hanover (Electress Sophia of)
• Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra (from Issue 27489 of The London Gazette – browser dependent)
• Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary (from Issue 28535 of The London Gazette – browser dependent)

Marriages

The Queen's declaration of consent to the marriage of descendants of King George II in accordance with the Royal Marriages Act (1772) is recorded in Orders in Council by the Privy Council and thereafter in The London Gazette. The Society has an index of these notices.

• Lord Kilmuir and the Royal Marriages Act, 1772

Properties

• The Crown Estate
• The Duchy of Lancaster
• St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
• Historic Royal Palaces

Orders, Decorations and Military Ranks

• Royal Family Orders
• Military careers of members of the Royal Family

Heraldry

Proclamations, Letters Patent and Warrants

Announcements about the Royal Family are made in The London Gazette. The society has an index of these different types of notice.

Loyal Addresses from the University of Cambridge

"A certain number of bodies enjoy by long-held prescriptive right (dating back in some cases to the seventeenth century), or by express grant from the Crown, the privilege of presenting addresses – but not petitions (i.e. requests from individual subjects) – to the Sovereign seated upon the throne, and of receiving a reply from the Sovereign's lips." (From the entry for "Privileged Bodies" in The Royal Encyclopedia.) One of these bodies is the University of Cambridge. The other universities accorded this privilege are those of Oxford, St Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and London.

• The golden jubilee of H.M. the Queen (from Cambridge University Reporter, Wednesday, May 29th, 2002)
• The silver jubilee of H.M. the Queen (from The London Gazette, Tuesday, July 19th, 1977)
• The accession of H.M. the Queen (from The London Gazette, Friday, May 23rd, 1952)
• The betrothal of H.R.H. the Princess Elizabeth (from The London Gazette, Tuesday, November 18th, 1947)
• The accession of H.M. King George VI (from The London Gazette, Tuesday, March 30th, 1937)
• The accession of H.M. King Edward VIII (from The London Gazette, Tuesday, Friday 3rd, 1936)
• The accession of H.M. King George V (from The London Gazette, Tuesday, July 5th, 1910)

Genealogy

Ceremonies, Customs and Protocol

Obituaries

• Lady Katherine Brandram (1913-2007) (from The Daily Telegraph, October 4th, 2007) – last surviving great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria
• Hon. Mrs Gerald Lascelles (1919-2007) – the former wife of a cousin of the Queen
  • Obituary (from The Daily Telegraph, March 12th, 2007))
  • Obituary (from The Times, April 21st, 2007))
• The Rt Hon. the Earl of Lichfield (1939-2005) (from The Daily Telegraph, November 12th, 2005) – a great-nephew of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
• Rt Hon. Sir Angus Ogilvy, K.C.V.O. (1928-2004) (from The Daily Telegraph, December 27th, 2004) – report and funeral
• H.R.H. Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901-2004) (from The Daily Telegraph, November 1st, 2004) – report; and funeral
• H.M. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1900-2002) (from The Daily Telegraph, April 2nd, 2002)
• H.R.H. the Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930-2002) (from The Daily Telegraph, February 11th, 2002)
• Captain Alexander Ramsay of Mar (1919-2000) (from The Daily Telegraph, December 21st, 2000)
• Hon. Gerald Lascelles (1924-1998) (from The Times, February 27th, 1998)
• Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997)
  • Obituary (from The Daily Telegraph, August 31st, 1997)
  • Obituary (from The Times, September 1st, 1997)

Organisations

• Monarchy.net – official web site of the International Monarchist League and the Constitutional Monarchy Association
  • Monarchist League of Canada – with bulletin board and extensive list of news items
  • Australian Monarchist League
  • Monarchist League of New Zealand has much useful information
• Oxford Monarchists (Societas Adjuctorum Monarchiae in academia Oxoniensi)
• Durham Monarchists
• Society of King Charles the Martyr (S.K.C.M.) (also American Branch)
  • "The Office for King Charles the Martyr in the Book of Common Prayer, 1662-1685", Jnl of Ecclesiastical History, 2002, 53 (3), 510–526
• Royal Stuart Society
• The Constantian Society
• The Society for Court Studies

Bibliography

• Royalty Digest – part of Piccadilly Rare Books
• Obituary of Prof. B.J. Pimlott, F.B.A. (1945-2004) – author of The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth II (from The Daily Telegraph, Tuesday, April 13th, 2004)

Miscellaneous

• Information about the Monarchy as seen from Canada

Selected Links

• Mandy's British Royalty
• Etoile's Unofficial Royalty Site – one of many, many unofficial sites on the British Royal Family, this is one of the more reliable and contains a useful hyperlinked index of recent newspaper stories; also, it is associated with the newsgroup, UK-Royal and has its own forum

Kingdom of Denmark

• The Royal House (in Danish only but with a good selection of photographs)
• Further notes on the Royal Family (from the Royal Danish Embassy, Washington, D.C.)
  • List of Danish Sovereigns
• A Royal Family – about the family of King Christian IX of Denmark
• Succession:– Settlement of the Crown on Prince Christian of Glücksburg (1853); Act of 1953; succession rights
• Obituary of H.M. Queen Ingrid of Denmark (1910-2000) (from The Daily Telegraph, November 8th, 2000)

Kingdom of Spain

• The Royal House – official site and in Spanish – though (partial) on-line translation is available
• The Royal House – from the Spanish Foreign Ministry and in English
• Obituaries
  • Infanta Beatriz Torlonia (1909-2002) (from The Daily Telegraph, November 25th, 2002)
  • Infanta María Cristina de Borbón y Battenberg (1911-1996) (from The Times, December 30th, 1996)

Kingdom of Sweden

• The Royal House – in English
• Obituaries
  • Count Lennart Bernadotte (1909-2004) (formerly H.R.H. Prince Gustaf Lennart Nicolaus Paul, Duke of Småland) (from The Daily Telegraph, Wednesday, January 12th, 2005)
  • Prince Carl Bernadotte (1911-2003) (from The Daily Telegraph, Thursday, July 17th, 2003)
  • H.R.H. Prince Bertil of Sweden (1912-1997) (from The Times, January 7th, 1997)

Kingdom of the Netherlands

• The Royal House
• A Genealogy of the Royal House – Part I; Part II (with other links at end of Part II)
• Obituaries
  • H.R.H. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (1911-2004)
    • Obituary (from The Daily Telegraph, Saturday, December 4th, 2004)
    • Obituary (from The Guardian, Friday, December 3rd, 2004)
  • H.R.H. Princess Juliana of the Netherlands (1909-2004)
    • Obituary (from The Daily Telegraph, Monday, March 22nd, 2004)
    • Obituary (from The Guardian, Monday, March 22nd, 2004)
  • H.R.H. Prince Claus of the Netherlands (1926-2002)
    • Obituary (from The Daily Telegraph, Tuesday, October 8th, 2002)
    • Obituary (from The Guardian, Tuesday, October 8th, 2002)

Kingdom of Belgium

• The Royal House
• Obituaries
  • H.R.H. Prince Alexandre of the Belgians (1942-2009) (from The Daily Telegraph, December 17th, 2009)
  • H.R.H. Princess Liliane of Belgium (1916-2002) (from The Daily Telegraph, June 10th, 2002)

Kingdom of Norway

• The Royal House (also in English)
• An unofficial – but extensive – page

Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

• List of Sovereigns (963 to the present)
• The Grand-Ducal Family of Luxembourg (official)
• The Grand-Ducal Family of Luxembourg (unofficial)
• A Genealogy of the Grand Ducal House
• Recent Genealogy
• Obituaries
  • H.R.H. the Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg (1927-2005) (from The Daily Telegraph, Tuesday, January 11th, 2005)

Principality of Monaco

• The Princely House
• The Prince of Monaco
• The Hereditary Prince of Monaco
• The Hoelseth Entry
• Obituaries:
  • H.S.H. Prince Rainier III (1923-2005)
    • Obituary (from The Daily Telegraph, Thursday, April 7th, 2005)
    • Obituary (from The Guardian, Wednesday, April 6th, 2005)

Principality of Liechtenstein

• The Princely House (in German only)
• The Hoelseth Page

Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta

• Obituaries:
  • His Most Eminent Highness Fra' Andrew Bertie (1929-2008) – 78th Prince and Grand Master of the Order of Malta (first Englishman since Hugh Revel in 1258 and the first non-Italian since the end of the 18th century)

• Jordan – Site of King Abdullah II and site of King Hussein I
• Thailand – official site
• Japan
  • The Imperial House (in Japanese only)
  • Biographical Information – unofficial site but very informative
  • The Looking Glass – News about the Imperial Family of Japan and the Titled (unofficial)

General

• Links:–
  • Verena's Royal Genealogical and Photo Homepage
  • H. Churchyard
  • Site of D.T. Hoelseth – extensive site of links
  • Netty's Royalty Page – including News
  • Site of C.A. Coulombe
  • Site of T.J. Boyle (with many links)
  • Royal Families of the World
  • Site of P. Theroff – with news (in various sections and year by year)
  • Site of A. Raymond – extensive genealogical tables
  • Site of H. Bruins
  • Site of H. van Oene
  • The House of Willis
  • Netty's Royalty Page with News
  • Yvonne's Royalty Home Page
  • The Royal Ark – Royal and Ruling Houses of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas
  • Genroy.com (in French)
• Royalty Digest – A Journal of Record
• Royal Birthdays
• Regalis
• "The European Royal History Web Page" (with links to its own articles and to other sites)
• An Internet Gotha
• Time after Time
• Royalty magazine
• The List of Frequently Asked Questions (British) (FAQ) and Frequently Asked Questions (non-British) from the alt.talk.royalty Newsgroup

Royal Families Currently in Exile

Jugoslavia

• The Royal Family of Serbia and Yugoslavia – comprehensive official site with genealogical details (including a very attractive interactive family tree), photographs, links and press releases [requires a good browser]
• Obituary of H.R.H. Prince Tomislav of Jugosalvia (1928-2000) (from The Times, July 14th, 2000)

Bulgaria

• Bulgaria
• Obituary of H.M. Queen Giovanna of the Bulgarians (1907-2000) (from The Times, February 28th, 2000)

Russia

• The Romanoff Family Association
• Russian succession
• Russian Assembly of Nobility
• Obituary of H.S.H. Prince Alexander of Russia (1929-2002) (from The Daily Telegraph, October 3rd, 2002)
• Obituary of H.H. Princess Xenia of Russia (1919-2000) (from The Daily Telegraph, November 13th, 2000)
• Obituary of H.H. Princess Andrew of Russia (1908-2000) (from The Daily Telegraph, July 22nd, 2000)
• Remains of H.I.M. Empress Maria Fyodorovna returned to Russia (from The Daily Telegraph, September 27th, 2006)

France

• Obituary of H.R.H. the Countess of Paris (1911-2003) (from The Daily Telegraph, Monday, July 7th, 2003)

Germany

• Prussia
  • Tradition und Leben – with links; includes the text of an interview with H.I.&R.H. Prince George Frederick of Prussia plus picture and biography (entire site in German, though (partial) on-line translation is available)
• Hanover
  • Die Welfen (in German)
  • Königreich Hannover (in English and German)
  • Obituaries
    • H.R.H. Prince George of Hanover (1915-2006) (from The Daily Telegraph, January 17th, 2006)
    • H.R.H. Princess George of Hanover (1914-2001) (from The Daily Telegraph, November 30th, 2001)
• Bavaria
  • Haus Bayern
• Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
  • The House of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
• Hesse and the Rhine
  • Obituary of H.R.H. the Princess of Hesse and the Rhine (1913-1997) (from The Times, January 31st, 1997)

Austria-Hungary

• Austria-Hungary (mostly in German)
• Memoirs of Admiral Horthy
• Obituaries
  • H.I.&R.H. Archduchess Regina von Habsburg (1925-2010) (from The Daily Telegraph, February 4th, 2010)

Greece

• Official site
• Obituary of Lady Katherine Brandram (1913-2007) (from The Daily Telegraph, October 4th, 2007) – formerly H.R.H. Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark

Romania

• H.R.H. Prince Carol of Romania (1920-2006) (from The Daily Telegraph, February 9th, 2006)

Portugal

• Official site

Italy

• Italy
• Obituary of H.M. Queen Marie Jose of Italy (1906-2001) (from The Daily Telegraph, January 29th, 2001)

Poland

• Polish Nobility Association Foundation

Albania

• Obituary of H.M. Queen Susan of the Albanians (1941-2004) (from The Daily Telegraph, Thursday, July 22nd, 2004)

Turkey

• Turkey
• H.I.H. Princess Dürrühsehvar, Princess of Berar (1913-2006) (from The Daily Telegraph, Saturday, February 11th, 2006)

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