The Bill of Rights (1689) and the Act of Settlement (1701) excluded those who married Roman Catholics from the succession. Originally eighth in line to the throne, the Prince lost his right of succession after marriage because the princess is a Catholic. The couple have two children, Lord Frederick Windsor (1979) and Lady Gabriella Windsor (1981). In 1978, he married Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz, daughter of Baron von Reibnitz and the former Countess Marianne Szapary, in Vienna. He was educated at Eton and the Mons Officer Cadet School before serving in the military for almost two decades. And although Charles III is a Romanov descendent, he is not the closest living relative in Britain’s royal family to Russia’s last tsar.Ī closer living relative is Elizabeth II’s first cousin, Prince Michael of Kent – a man who also looks remarkably similar to Nicholas II and George V.īorn in 1942 at the height of the Second World War, at age five he served as a page boy at then Princess Elizabeth’s wedding to Prince Philip. Yet neither George V nor Queen Mary were direct descendants of the Romanovs. Their resemblance was uncanny and the two would often swap outfits to play jokes on the staff. Both men were grandchildren of Queen Victoria. George V was a favorite cousin of Nicholas II. ![]() His paternal grandfather, George I of Greece, was a brother-in-law of Alexander III – who was also related to Queen Mary. His paternal grandmother was the Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna, a granddaughter of Nicholas I. Prince Philip was related to the Romanovs through all four of his grandparents. ![]() ![]() That makes him George V's first cousin and Alexandra's third cousin.Ĭharles III’s connection to the Romanovs comes from both his mother and father. George V and Alexandra were both grandchildren of Queen Victoria, making them first cousins, but Nicholas was also a nephew of King Edward VII through marriage. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip were third cousins. The logic was both to keep the royal bloodline “pure” and form political and economic alliances. In the last three centuries, it wasn’t uncommon for first, second and third cousins of royal households in different countries to marry. King Charles III is the first descendent of the Russian imperial Romanov family to ascend to the British throne.
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