Ancestry of Elizabeth II

is the daughter of, the second-eldest son of and ; and of  (later Queen Elizabeth, and, after her daughter's accession to the throne, the ), the daughter of  and his wife,.

Queen Elizabeth is the male-line great-granddaughter of, who inherited the crown from his mother, Queen Victoria. His father, Victoria's consort, was ; hence Queen Elizabeth is a patrilineal descendant of Albert's family, the German princely. (Other notable members of this house are King and former King .) Traced as far as possible, Elizabeth's male-line ancestry stretches back to  of Meissen; see.

Through Victoria, as well as several other of her great-great-grandparents, Elizabeth is directly descended from many British royals: from the, from , and earlier Scottish royal houses; from the and earlier English royal houses stretching back as far as the 7th century.

As a great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, she is related to the heads of most other reigning and non-reigning European royal houses. Through her great-grandmother, she is descended from the Danish royal house of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a line of the North German house of , one of the oldest in Europe. (Other members of the House of Glücksburg include Elizabeth's husband, as well as, ,  and former King  — each of whom is also descended from Queen Victoria.) Elizabeth is likewise descendant of  (1687 – 1711), who is a  to all reigning European royal houses.

Ahnentafel
This table sets out the ancestry of for five generations, numbered according to the  genealogical numbering system. Queen Elizabeth II is directly descended from Aethelflaed of Wessex's younger sister, Elfthryth.

1.

Parents

2. 3. Lady

Grandparents

4. (father of 2) 5. Princess (mother of 2) 6. (father of 3) 7. (mother of 3)

Great-Grandparents

8. (father of 4) 9. Princess (mother of 4) 10. (father of 5) 11. (mother of 5) 12. (father of 6) 13. (mother of 6) 14. (father of 7) - 2nd marriage 15. (mother of 7)

Great-Great-Grandparents

16. Prince (father of 8) 17. (mother of 8) 18. (father of 9) 19. Princess (mother of 9) 20. (father of 10) - married in 21. Countess (mother of 10) 22. (father of 11) 23. (mother of 11) 24. Thomas George Lyon-Bowes, styled Lord Glamis (father of 12) 25. (mother of 12) 26. (father of 13) 27. (mother of 13) 28. (father of 14) md. (as her 2nd husband) 29., previously Lady Abdy (mother of 14) 30. (father of 15) 31. (mother of 15)

Great-Great-Great-Grandparents

32. (father of 16) 33. Princess (mother of 16) 34. (father of 17) - as her 2nd husband 35. (mother of 17) 36. (father of 18) 37. Princess (mother of 18) 38. (father of 19) 39. (mother of 19) 40. (father of 20) 41. (mother of 20) 42. (father of 21) 43. (mother of 21) 44. (father of 22) 45. Duchess (mother of 22) 46. (father of 23) 47. (mother of 23) 48. (father of 24) 49. Mary Carpenter (mother of 24) 50. Joseph Grimstead (father of 25) 51. Charlotte Walsh (mother of 25) 52. George Smith (father of 26) 53. Frances Mosley (mother of 26) 54. Very Rev. Robert Hodgson (father of 27) 55. Mary Tucker (mother of 27) 56. (Prime Minister) (father of 28) 57. Lady Dorothy Cavendish (mother of 28) 58., born Richard Wesley (father of 29) - married after the birth of their children, who were thus illegitimate and debarred from any real or courtesy titles 59. Hyacinth Roland (mother of 29) 60. Edwin Andrew Burnaby (father of 30) 61. Mary Browne (mother of 30) 62. Thomas Salisbury (father of 31) 63. Frances Webb (mother of 31)

Patrilineal descent
Elizabeth's patriline is the line from which she is descended father to son.

is the principle behind membership in Germanic royal houses, can be traced back through the generations - which means that if Elizabeth II were to choose an historically accurate house name it would be, as all her male-line ancestors have been members.

The line diverges from the at Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, and from then on follows his paternal ancestors.

Descent before Conrad the Great is taken from and may be inaccurate.

House of Wettin
 * 1) Burkhard I, Duke of Thuringia, d. 870
 * , 836 - 908
 * 1) (possibly) Burkhard III of Grabfeldgau, 866 - 913
 * 2) Dedi I, Count of Hessegau, 896 - 957
 * 3) (probably) Dietrich I of Wettin, d. 976
 * 4) (possibly) Dedi II, Count of Hessegau, 946 - 1009
 * 5) Dietrich II of Wettin, 991 - 1034
 * 6) Thimo I of Wettin, d. 1099
 * 7) Thimo II the Brave, Count of Wettin, d. 1118
 * , 1098 - 1157
 * , 1125 - 1190
 * , 1162 - 1221
 * , c. 1215 - 1288
 * , 1240 - 1314
 * , 1257 - 1323
 * , 1310 - 1349
 * , 1332 - 1381
 * , 1370 - 1428
 * , 1412 - 1464
 * , 1441 - 1486
 * , 1468 - 1532
 * , 1503 - 1554
 * , 1530 - 1573
 * , 1570 - 1605
 * , 1601 - 1675
 * , 1658 - 1729
 * , 1697 - 1764
 * , 1724 - 1800
 * , 1750 - 1806
 * , 1784 - 1844
 * , 1819 - 1861
 * , 1841 - 1910
 * , 1865 - 1936
 * , 1895 - 1952
 * , 1926 -