Richard l'Estourmy or Esturmy, companion of William the Conqueror, came to England at the Conquest, and was granted lands in England after the Battle of Hastings. Several times subsequently, the family survived only with daughters, who married into other Norman families in England (some with anglicized surnames). In general the descendants were part of the English nobility.

Ancestry of William, the first child of Prince Charles and Princess Diane, and heir to the thrones of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain. The ancestry is traced in Great Britain, Germany and Austria, France, Russia, the Scandinavian countries, the Holy Roman Empire, and various other countries throughout the world (including the ancient world).

A study of relations between Britain and Austria as seen through personal and political connections between the families of Queen Victoria and Emperor Francis Joseph.

Pedigree charts showing the ancestry of Prince Charles (b.1948) of England, son of Queen Elizabeth II and Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh. This Royal ancestry is traced through the nobility of all of Europe, and is chiefly identified in the nobility of England, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark and elsewhere. Within England, the royal houses of Tudor, Stuart, Hanover, Windsor and others are included. Most of the lineage is between the 1400s and...

The House of Windsor was created in 1917, in the midst of World War I, in order to avoid a perceived taint of a German surname which had been held by British royalty since the time of George I who was from Hanover. George V, grandson of Queen Victoria, was the first to use the name Windsor and all of his descendants have since 1917. Fearfull of losing the throne due to anti-monarchy sentiment which was rampant after the first World War, George V worked...

History of the Mountbatten family, chiefly as part of the English nobility, but also their influence in Germany (as part of the Royal family via the House of Hess), Russia, Bulgaria, India and elsewhere.

Henry William Frederick Albert Windsor (1900-1974) was born at York Cottage, Sandringham, England as the fifth in line to the English crown. Henry was the third son of the Duke of York who eventually became George V of England. Henry's elder brothers, David and Bertie, eventually became Edward VIII and George VI. In 1928 he was made the Duke of Gloucester, Earl of Ulster and Baron Culloden. In 1935 he married Lady Alice Montangue-Douglas-Scott and...