Issue of marriage:
(i)
Beatrice Elizabeth Mary.
Born on 8 August, 1988, at the Portland Hospital, Great Portland Street, London, W.1.
(ii)
Eugenie Victoria Helena.
Born on 23 March, 1990, at the Portland Hospital.
The Duke and Duchess of York were divorced on 30 May, 1996.
4 Edward Antony Richard Louis
He was born on 10 March, 1964, at Buckingham Palace, and was created Earl of Wessex on 19 June, 1999. Prince Edward married, on 19 June, 1999, at St George’s Chapel, Windsor:
Sophie Helen
She is the daughter of Christopher Bournes Rhys-Jones by Mary O’Sullivan, and she was born on 20 January, 1965, at Oxford.
Issue of marriage:
(i) Miscarriage, December 2001.
Author’s Note
The reader may find it helpful to note the following points:
1. Britain’s Royal Familiescovers the period from A.D. 800 to the present day. The monarchs belonging to each royal house appear in chronological order. Every member of the various royal dynasties of England, Scotland and Great Britain is included, even children who died in infancy. Since the succession has usually been invested in the male line, the descendants of female members of the royal families beyond the first generation have not been included, except where relevant to the succession. Likewise, the descendants of the illegitimate children of monarchs have not been included.
2. All names in the book have been Anglicised or Latinised for the sake of clarity. Where a person is known by more than one name, all the alternatives are given.
3. Where any fact or date is in dispute, this is indicated in the text, and all the possibilities are listed.
4. Many dates are either not known or disputed, and the following examples serve to illustrate how they appear in the text:
Example 1 c.848 means around the year or date specified.
Example 2848/9 means during the period or years specified.
Example 3848? means the date has been estimated using circumstantial evidence and guesswork, and is purely conjectural.
5. The following rule applies to the listing of subjects by name:
Example 1Name followed by a question mark (?) means there is doubt that the person actually existed.
Example 2Name preceded by a question mark (?) means there is doubt that the name is correct.
6. County boundaries given are those relevant to the period in question.
Select Bibliography
The works consulted during the 22 years it has taken me to research this book are too numerous to mention. What follows is a list of the most important sources. Books marked *are especially recommended for researching royal genealogy. Every effort has been made to trace a publisher for each book listed; unfortunately, this was not possible in every case.
Adam of Usk: Chronicon(ed. E. M. Thompson, 1876).
Adamson, D. & Dewar, P. B.: The House of Nell Gwynn(Kimber, 1974).
Akrigg, G. P. V.: Jacobean Pageant, or the Court of King James I(Hamish Hamilton, 1962).
Albert, M. A.: The Divorce(Harrap, 1965).
Alderman, C. L.: Blood Red the Roses: The Wars of the Roses(Bailey and Swinfen, 1973).
Alexander, Marc: The Outrageous Queens(1977).
H.R.H. Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone: For My Grandchildren(Evans, 1966).
Altschul, M.: A Baronial Family in Mediaeval England: The Clares, 1217–1314(Johns Hopkins, 1965).
Ancient Charters, Royal and Private, prior to A.D. 1200(ed. J. H. Round, Pipe Roll Society, 1888).
Andrews, A: The Royal Whore(Hutchinson, 1971).
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle(ed. G. N. Garmonsway, Dent, 1954).
Anominalle Chronicle(ed. V. H. Galbraith, 1967).
Appleby, J. T.: England without Richard(Bell, 1965).
Appleby, J. T.: Henry II, the Vanquished King(Bell, 1962).
Appleby, J. T.: The Troubled Reign of King Stephen(Bell, 1969).
Archaeologia(102 vols., Society of Antiquaries of London, 1773–1969).
Argy, J. & Riches, W.: Britain’s Royal Brides(Sphere Books, 1977).
Armitage-Smith, S.: John of Gaunt(Constable, 1904).
Ashdown, D. M.: Ladies in Waiting(Arthur Barker, 1976).
Ashdown, D. M.: Princess of Wales(John Murray, 1979).
Ashdown, D. M.: Queen Victoria’s Mother(Robert Hale, 1974).
Ashley, M.: Charles II, the Man and the Statesman(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971).
Ashley, M.: The Glorious Revolution of 1688(Hodder and Stoughton, 1966).
Ashley, M.: James II(Dent, 1977).
Ashley, M.: King John(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972).
Ashley, M.: The Stuarts in Love(Hodder and Stoughton, 1963).
Ashley, M.: William I(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973).
Ashton, R.: James I by his Contemporaries(Hutchinson, 1969).
Asser, Bishop: Life of King Alfred(ed. W. M. Stevenson, Oxford University Press, 1904).
Ayling, S.: George the Third(Collins, 1972).
Bacon, Francis: The Life of Henry VII(1622; ed. J. R. Lumby, Cambridge University Press, 1902).
Bagley, J. J.: Henry VIII(Batsford, 1962).
Bagley, J. J.: Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England(Herbert Jenkins, 1948).
Baker, Geoffrey le: Chronicon(ed. E. M. Thompson, Oxford University Press, 1889).
Baker, Richard: A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Romans’ Government unto the Death of King James(1643).
Baker, T.: The Normans(Cassell, 1966).
Barber, R.: Henry Plantagenet: A Biography of Henry II of England(Boydell Press, 1972).
Barlow, F.: Edward the Confessor(Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1970). *
Barlow, F.: The Feudal Kingdom of England(Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1961).
Barlow, F.: William I and the Norman Conquest(Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1965).
Battiscombe, G.: Queen Alexandra(Constable, 1969).
Baxter, S. B.: William III(Longman, 1966).
Bayley, J.: History and Antiquities of the Tower of London(Jennings and Chaplin, 1830).
Beamish, T.: Battle Royal(Muller, 1965).
Beaverbrook, Lord: The Abdication of King Edward VIII(Hamish Hamilton, 1966).
Beckingsale, B. W.: Elizabeth I(Batsford, 1963).
Bennett, D.: King without a Crown(Heinemann, 1977).
Bennett, D.: Vicky(Collins and Harvill, 1971).
Berry, P.: By Royal Appointment(Femina, 1970).
Bevan, B.: Charles the Second’s French Mistress(Robert Hale, 1972).
Bevan, B.: I was James the Second’s Queen(Robert Hale, 1963).
Bevan, B.: King James III of England(Robert Hale, 1962).
Bevan, B.: Nell Gwyn(Robert Hale, 1969).
Bingham, C.: Edward II(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973).
Bingham, C.: James V, King of Scots(Collins, 1971).
Bingham, C.: The Kings and Queens of Scotland(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976). *
Bingham, C.: The Stewart Kingdom of Scotland(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974).
Black, J. B.: The Reign of Elizabeth(Oxford University Press, 1959).
Blackman, John: Collectarium Mansuetudinum et Bonorium Morum Regis Henrici VI(ed. M. R. James, 1919).