History of the Windsors

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    Queen Victoria

    She was Queen of the United Kingdom from her accession to the throne on June 20, 1837, until her death in January 1901. She was also the first British sovereign to hold the title of Empress of India.
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    Albert Edward VII

    He was the king of the United Kingdom and the British Overseas Dominions and emperor of India from his accession to the throne, on January 22, 1901, until his death. His reign of more than nine years was known as the Edwardian era.
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    George Frederick Ernest Albert

    Fue el rey del Reino Unido y los Dominios Británicos de Ultramar y emperador de la India desde su ascenso. Como segundo hijo de Alberto Eduardo, príncipe de Gales (futuro Eduardo VII) y nieto de la monarca reinante británica, la reina Victoria, al momento de su nacimiento era tercero en la línea de sucesión, detrás de su padre y su hermano mayor, hasta que en enero de 1892, el inesperado fallecimiento de su hermano lo situó directamente en la línea de sucesión al trono.
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    Edward VIII

    He was king of the United Kingdom and the British Overseas Dominions and emperor of India from his accession to the throne, on January 20, 1936, until his abdication on December 11 of the same year, after formally asking to marry Wallis Simpson, a American celebrity
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    George VI

    He was king of the United Kingdom and its overseas dominions from his accession to the throne on December 11, 1936 until his death in 1952. He was the last emperor of India and the first head of the Commonwealth of Nations. As the second son of King George V and Queen Mary, he was not expected to inherit the throne after his father's death, but when his brother abdicated he had to accept the weight of the crown.
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    Elizabeth II

    She was Queen of the United Kingdom from her accession to the throne in February 1952, until her death in September 2022, in addition to the sovereign of the independent States constituted as a kingdom that form, or were, part of the Commonwealth of Nations. Her reign of more than seven decades was longer than that of any other British monarch, the second longest in history behind Louis XIV of France and the longest verified reign of a woman.
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    Charles III

    He is the king of the United Kingdom since September 2022 and sovereign of the other fourteen kingdoms that are part of the Commonwealth of Nations. He was the heir to the Crown and the longest-serving Prince of Wales and, at 73, became the oldest person to succeed to the British throne following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.