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Charles III
Charles III is King of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms.
Queen Victoria
Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days, which was longer than those of any of her predecessors, constituted the Victorian era, a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. In 1876, the British parliament voted to grant her the additional title of Empress of India.
Boris Johnson
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022
Audrey Hepburn
British actress (1929–1993)
Douglas Adams
British science fiction writer and humorist (1952–2001)
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II and served as consort of the British monarch from her accession on 6 February 1952 until his death in 2021, making him the longest-serving royal consort in British history.
George VI
George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was also the last Emperor of India from 1936 until the British Raj was dissolved in August 1947, and the first Head of the Commonwealth following the London Declaration of 1949.
William, Prince of Wales
William, Prince of Wales, is the heir apparent to the British throne. He is the elder son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales.
George V
George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.
Edward VIII
Edward VIII, later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication in December of the same year.
Alia Bhatt
British actress
Mary of Teck
queen consort of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936
Nick Clegg
British politician and media executive (born 1967)
Maud of Wales
British princess (1869-1938), Queen consort of Norway from 1905 to 1938
Muzio Clementi
Italian-born English composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer
Derek Jacobi
English actor (born 1938)
Engelbert Humperdinck
British singer
Soni Razdan
British actress
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
British prince (1767-1820); fourth son of George III
Georg V of Hanover
King of Hanover (1819–1878)
Richard E. Grant
British-Swazi actor
Prince George, Duke of Kent
Prince George, Duke of Kent, was a member of the British royal family, the fourth son of King George V and Queen Mary, and a younger brother of Kings Edward VIII and George VI. He served in the Royal Navy during the 1920s before briefly working as a civil servant, and in 1934 was created Duke of Kent. That same year he married Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, with whom he had three children: Edward, Alexandra and Michael.
Jennifer Ehle
American actress
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood
Member of the House of Windsor
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
British soldier (1900–1974), Governor-General of Australia from 1945 to 1947
Bernardine Evaristo
British author and academic (1959-)
Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom
fourth child and second daughter of Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark (1868-1935)
Prince John of the United Kingdom
Son of King George V
Freya Madeline Stark
British travel writer (1893-1993)
Thyra, Crown Princess of Hanover
youngest daughter of Christian IX of Denmark and Queen Louise (1853–1933)
Princess Caroline of Great Britain
fourth child and third daughter of George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach
Prince Arthur of Connaught
British prince (1883-1938)
Dana Wynter
actress (1931–2011)
Alice Merton
German-Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1993)
Michael Morpurgo
British children's writer
Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke
British noble (1886-1960); eldest child of Prince Henry of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom; grandson of Queen Victoria
Catherine Schell
Hungarian–British actress
Hannah Simone
British actress
James Lighthill
British applied mathematician (1924–1998)
Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster
only son of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester
Maik Taylor
Northern Irish footballer (born 1971)
Prince Maurice of Battenberg
member of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the extended British Royal Family (1891–1914)
Peter Sarstedt
English singer-songwriter and instrumentalist
Campino
German singer
Lord Leopold Mountbatten
British noble (1889-1922); son of Prince Henry of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom; grandson of Queen Victoria
George Rodger
British photojournalist (1908-1995)
Paul Collier
British economist
Jo Johnson
British politician (born 1971)
Lance Reventlow
racecar driver and entrepreneur (1936-1972)
David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven
British noble (1919-1970)
George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven
British peer and businessman (born 1961)
Lord Frederick Windsor
British financial analyst; son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen
British statesman and businessman (1831–1907)
Jayne Wisener
Irish actress
Philip Crowther
British-German-Luxembourgish journalist
Harold Bauer
American pianist of English birth (1873–1951)
Adeline Rudolph
Hong Kong-British actress (born 1995)
Anand Tucker
British film director and producer
Sarah Sutherland
American actress
Marta Andreasen
Argentine-born Spanish accountant and politician (born 1954)