►Royal Tree

This is the most comprehensive royal genealogy chart you are ever likely to see, showing all of the interconnections between all of the European royal families.

Monarchy and History

A chart from the late 1700s showing the impact that European monarchies have had on world history.

Hesse Family Connections

A genealogical chart from the late 1700s showing the interconnections between the Hesse family and the royal families of Denmark, Prussia, Russia, Spain and Great Britain.

Schleswig Holstein Connections

A genealogical chart from the late 1700s showing the interconnections between the Schleswig Holstein family of Denmark and the royal families, and wars, of Sweden, Norway, Prussia, Russia, Spain, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Romania and Great Britain.

Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie

As the chart below shows, Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie is the great x 5 grandmother of the present Kings of Sweden and Norway, and the Queen of Denmark.  She was married to Vicomte Alexander de Beauharnais with whom she had two children. After Alexander's execution in 1794, following the French Revolution, Josephine married Napoleon Bonaparte and secured the future of her children. Her son, Eugene, was made Viceroy of the United Kingdom of Italy and her daughter, Hortense, married Napoleon's younger brother Louis (their son, Napoleon III, became Emperor of the French 1852-1870).

Letizia Ramolino

As the chart below shows, Letizia Ramolino married a Corsican lawyer, Charles Bonaparte, and lived to 86 -- the last fifty-one years in widowhood. While her descendants did well -- two Napoleons becoming Emperors of the French -- they did not do as well in terms of lasting power, prestige and wealth as those who won her son's favor, particularly Napoleon's first wife, Josephine, and his trusted general, Bernadotte, whose descendants are the present royals of Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

Francois Clary

As the chart below shows, Francois Clary is the great x 5 grandfather of the present Kings of Sweden and Norway, and the Queen of Denmark.  He was a French silk manufacturer who, with his wife Rose, had thirteen children -- two of whom, Desiree and Julie, befriended French soldiers billeted in their town and married post-revolutionary rising stars. Desiree married Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, a General in Napoleon's army who was given Sweden to rule in 1810 after the Vasa family was deposed; and Julie married Napoleon's brother, Joseph, who was temporarily made King of Spain in 1808 and later became a New Jersey gentry farmer.

Jean Baptiste Bernadotte

Genealogy chart for the descendants of Jean Baptiste Bernadotte -- the great x 4 grandfather of the present Kings of Sweden and Norway, and the Queen of Denmark.  He was a General in Napoleon's army who was given Sweden to rule in 1810 after the Vasa family was deposed. His wife, Desiree Clary, was the daughter of Francois Clary, a French silk manufacturer.

Claudine Rhedey

Genealogy chart for Claudine Rhedey -- Queen Elizabeth II's great-great-grandmother on her father's side. A Hungarian of common origins, Claudine caught the eye of Alexander of Wurttemberg and upon their marriage she was given the courtesy title of Countess von Hohenstein. Shortly after the birth of a son, Francis, Claudine was trampled to death by a bolting horse. The poor girl was only twenty-three years old. Because of his mother's common status, Francis was denied succession to the Wurttemberg titles. Given the courtesy title of Duke of Teck, he gained the prestige he yearned for by marrying Queen Victoria's first cousin, the unfortunate "Fat Mary".

Julie Hauke

Genealogy chart for Julie Hauke -- Prince Charles' great-great grandmother on his father's side. Julie was a Polish orphan, employed in the Hesse household as a lady in waiting. She caught the eye of Alexander of Hesse, they married and she was given the courtesy title Princess of Battenberg -- a title which her children inherited and, upon war with Germany, later changed to Mountbatten in the same way that the House of Hanover changed to the House of Windsor.