Q: Rachel Anders - North Carolina, USA
Can you tell me who began the 'web magazine' Royal Insight? I have heard it was HRH The Duke of York.
Royal Insight was indeed launched by The Duke of York in April 1999 at an internet café near Buckingham Palace. The Duke of York takes a keen interest in the World Wide Web.
Q: Elisa Rosi - Parma, Italy
I learned from the Royal family tree on this site that King George V had also a son called John. Can you tell me something about him and why he died so young? Thank you.
King George V had five sons and one daughter. His youngest child was Prince John Charles Francis, born on 12 July 1905. By the age of four he had developed epilepsy and was subsequently given special care by a nurse on the Sandringham Estate. In January 1919 he died in his sleep, aged thirteen, after suffering an epileptic attack. He is buried in the graveyard of Sandringham Church.
Q: D. Cummings - Ipswich, UK
How far back can The Queen trace her ancestry?
The Queen's ancestry can be traced to well beyond the reign of King William the Conqueror, to the Anglo Saxon kings of Wessex. The Queen's line of direct descent (i.e. her father, her grandfather, her grandfather's father etc.) shows that her ancestry takes in both Scottish and Welsh lines, descended as she is from King Henry VII and the early Welsh kings, and from King James V of Scotland and the early Scottish kings. Through her mother's line, The Queen's Royal ancestry goes back to Robert II of Scotland.
Q: Adrian Faiers - Petchey, UK
I was reading the pages on Prince Charles, and noted it says: "The Prince was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in 1958". I was born in 1958 and remember coming home from school to watch the investiture of the Prince when he was made Prince of Wales. Are the creation and investiture two different things?
The creation and the investiture are indeed two separate things. An announcement that The Queen intended to create her eldest son Prince of Wales was made on 26 June 1958 at the closure of the Empire Games at Cardiff, when he was only nine years old. One month later, on 26 July 1958, he was officially created as Prince of Wales, becoming the 21st holder of the title.
The ceremony of investiture took place over a decade later, when the Prince was almost 21, on 1 July 1969 at Caernarvon Castle.
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