User:Iamthecheese44/List of godchildren of members of the British royal family

The following is an incomplete list of godchildren of members of the British Royal Family.

  • Prince William Henry of the United Kingdom, later William IV (1765–1837)
  • Sara Forbes Bonetta, later Mrs. J P L Davies of Lagos (c. 1842-1880)
  • Victoria Davies Randle (1863–1920); daughter of Sara Forbes Bonetta
  • Hon Victor Alexander Henniker-Major (1878 - ?)
  • Lady Victoria Alexandrina Anna Maria Byng (1842–1899)
  • Victor Alexander Brooke Esq, later 3rd Baronet (1843–1891)
  • Victor Grosvenor, Viscount Belgrave, later styled Earl Grosvenor (1853–1884)
  • Lady Victoria Alexandrina Spencer, later Viscountess Mansfield (1855–1906)
  • Lady Victoria Alexandrina Hare (1858–1927)
  • Albert Kamehameha (1858–1862)
  • Victor Alexander Seymour (1859–1935)
  • Alexandrina Victoria Macdonald (1860–1953)
  • Victor Albert Nelson Hood (1862–1929)
  • Alberta Victoria Ponsonby (1862–1945)
  • Alberta Victoria Sarah Caroline Paget (1863–1944)
  • Victoria Forbes Bonetta Davies, later Mrs. J Randle of Freetown (1863 - ?)
  • Prince Albert Victor of Wales, later Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864–1892)
  • Hon Victor Albert Francis Charles Spencer, later 1st Viscount Churchill (1864–1934)
  • Victor Albert William Welby (1864–1876)
  • Victoria Alexandrina Julia Peel (1865–1935)
  • Mary of Teck (1867-1953)
  • Victor Albert Stanley (1867–1934)
  • Victor Carl Haag (1867–1945)
  • Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (1868-1935)
  • Charles Beauclerk, Earl of Burford, later 11th Duke of St Albans (1870–1934)
  • Victoria Alexandrina Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (1873–1968)
  • Prince Alfred of Edinburgh, later Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874–1899)* Lady Victoria Alexandrina Mary Cecil Herbert (1874–1957)
  • Hon Victor Alexander Frederick Villiers Russell (1874–1965)
  • Hon Alexander Victor Frederick Villiers Russell (1874–1965, twin of above)
  • Hon Victor Hay, later 21st Earl of Erroll (1876–1928)
  • Victor Alexander Augustus Henry Wellesley (1876–1954)
  • Lady Victoria Alexandrina Alberta Kerr (1876–1956)
  • Lady Victoria Alexandrina Murray (1877–1925)
  • Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1876-1936)
  • Victoria Alexandrina Innes-Ker (1877–1970)
  • Victoria Alexandrina Phipps (1877–1959)
  • Victoria Alexandrina Wellesley (1877–1933)
  • Victoria Alexandrina Elizabeth Grey (1877–1922)
  • Victor Alexander Henniker-Major (1878–1954)
  • Lady Victoria Sybil Mary Grey (1878–1907)
  • Victoria Alexandrina Hicks-Beach (1879–1963)
  • Victoria Alexandra Wyatt Rawson (1882–1953)
  • Princess Margaret of Connaught, later Crown Princess of Sweden (1882-1920)
  • Princess Alice of Albany (1883–1981)
  • Prince Arthur of Connaught (1883-1938)
  • Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884-1954)
  • Victoria Alexandrina Stella Legge (1885–1965)
  • Victoria Alexandra Dalrymple (1886–1890)
  • Princess Patricia of Connaught (1886-1974)
  • Victor Alexander Spencer, later 2nd Viscount Churchill (1890–1973)
  • Lady Victoria Cavendish-Bentinck (1890–1994); daughter of 6th Duke of Portland and Winifred Dallas-Yorke.
  • Hon Victor Alexander Herbert Hula Onslow (1890–1922)
  • Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife (1891-1959); born Lady Alexandra Duff, later Princess Arthur of Connaught, Duchess of Fife
  • Hon Victoria Alexandrina Carington (1892–1966)
  • Victor Alexander Charles Crutchley (1893–1986)
  • Victoria Alexandrina Leopoldine Bridgeman (1894–1961)
  • Prince Edward of York, later Edward VIII (1894–1972)
  • Prince Albert of York, later George VI (1895–1952)
  • Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1895–1918)
  • Hon Victor Alexander Cecil Savile (1895–1975)
  • Victor Alexander Cazalet (1896–1943)
  • Victoria Alexandrina Alice Curzon-Howe (1896–1910)
  • Victoria Ivy Louise Spencer (1897–1946)
  • Victor Alexander Charles Harbord, later 7th Baron Suffield (1897–1943)
  • Princess Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary of York (1897–1965)
  • Victor Alexander Charles Bannatyne (1898–1946)
  • Victoria Alexandrina Vivian Smith (1899–1969)
  • Victor Alexander George Anthony Warrender, later 1st Baron Bruntisfield (1899–1953)
  • Victoria Alexandrina Catherine Wingate, later Victoria Dane (1899–1989)[3]
  • Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900-1974)
  • Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900–1979)
  • Victor Alexander Henry Desmond Ponsonby (born and died 1900)
  • Lady Victoria Cecil, later Baroness Carbery (1843–1932)
  • Albert Augustus Phipps (1847–1875)

== Maria Alexandrovna, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

  • Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (1868-1935)
  • Princess Marie of Edinburgh, later Queen consort of Romania (1875-1938)
  • Hon Augusta Louise Margaret Romola Villiers Russell (1879–1966)
  • Arthur Maurice FitzGerald Esq (born and died 1883)
  • Arthur Henry Brinsley FitzGerald Esq (1885–1967), later 4th Baronet
  • Prince Albert of York, later George VI (1895–1952)
  • George Bingham, later 6th Earl of Lucan (1898–1964)
  • Lady Alexandra Patricia Ward (1904–1964)
  • Iain Arthur Murray (1904–1986)
  • Arthur James Robert Collins (born 1911)
  • Arthur Mountifort Longfield Ponsonby, later 11th Earl of Bessborough (1912–2002)
  • Prince Alastair of Connaught (1914-1943), later known as Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
  • Hon William Nicholas Somers Laurence Hyde (1916–2000)
  • Desmond Arthur Peter Leslie (1921–2001)
  • Princess Elizabeth of York, later Elizabeth II (born 1926)
  • Prince Edward of Kent, later Duke of Kent (born 1935)
  • Hon Augusta Louise Margaret Romola Villiers Russell (1879–1966)
  • Louise Margaret Mabel Stevenson (1905–1977)
  • Frederick Hew George Dalrymple (born 1890)
  • Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (1897–1918)
  • Victoria Mary Joan Keppel (born and died 1899)
  • Anne Keppel (1901–1951)
  • Hon Edward George John Humphrey Cadogan, later styled Viscount Chelsea (1903–1910)
  • George Cecil Colville (1903–1983)
  • Count Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Konrad Ernst Maximilian von Hochberg, Baron zu Fürstenstein, later 5th Prince of Pless (1905–1984)
  • Hon George Herbert Arthur Edward Hyde, later styled Lord Hyde (1906–1935)
  • Georgiana Mary Dormer (1906–1955)
  • Hon John Crichton, later 5th Earl Erne (1907–1940)
  • George Bryan Godfrey-Faussett Esq (born 1909)
  • George William ffolkes Dawnay (1909–1990)
  • Henry Percy, Lord Lovaine, later 9th Duke of Northumberland (1912–1940)
  • Hon George Petty-FitzMaurice, later 8th Marquess of Lansdowne (1912–1997)
  • Victor Robert John Innes-Ker, Marquess of Bowmont and Cessford, later 9th Duke of Roxburghe (1913–1974)
  • Prince Alastair of Connaught (1914-1943), later known as Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
  • Prince Ernst-August of Hanover, later 4th Prince of Hanover (1914–1987)
  • John Chetwynd-Talbot, Lord Talbot of Hensol, later 21st Earl of Shrewsbury (1914–1980)
  • Hon George Jellicoe, later 2nd Earl Jellicoe (1918–2007)
  • George Edward Charles Hardinge, later 3rd Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (1921–1997)
  • George Charles Henry Victor Paget, Earl of Uxbridge, later 7th Marquess of Anglesey (1922–2013)
  • Keith George David Erskine (1922–1923)
  • Peter, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia (1923-1970), later King
  • Hon George Lascelles, later 7th Earl of Harewood (1923–2011)
  • Rowland Baring, Viscount Errington, later 3rd Earl of Cromer (1918–1991)
  • Princess Elizabeth of York, later Elizabeth II (born 1926)
  • James Carnegie, Lord Carnegie, later 3rd Duke of Fife (born 1929)
  • Hon Sarah Faith Georgina Spencer (born 1931)
  • Hon George St Lawrence Neuflize Ponsonby (born 1931)
  • Gustavus Michael George Hamilton-Russell, later 10th Viscount Boyne (1931–1995)
  • George Frederick Laurence Hyde Villiers, later 7th Earl of Clarendon (born 1933)
  • Hon Victor George Spencer, later 3rd Viscount Churchill (born 1934)
  • Hon John Dawnay, later 11th Viscount Downe (1935–2002)
  • Prince Edward of Kent, later Duke of Kent (born 1935)
  • Lady Georgiana Augusta Kerr (died 1959)
  • Alexander Victor Dummond (1888–1937)
  • Gerald Edward Victor Crutchley (1890–1969)
  • Victoria Mary Joan Keppel (born and died 1899)
  • Anne Keppel (1901–1951)
  • Mary Kathleen Crichton, later Duchess of Abercorn (1905–1990)
  • Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, later Duchess of Kent (1906-1968)
  • Victoria Mary Blanche FitzRoy (born 1906)
  • Henry Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis (1908–1975)
  • George Bryan Godfrey-Faussett, Esq. (born 1909)
  • Mary Margaret Elizabeth Petty-FitzMaurice (1910–2003)
  • Hon David Boyle, later 9th Earl of Glasgow (1910–1984)
  • Hon George Francis John Montagu Douglas Scott (1911–1999)
  • George Victor Robert John Innes-Ker, Marquess of Bowmont and Cessford, later 9th Duke of Roxburghe (1913–1974)
  • Hon Archibald Victor Dudley Gordon, later 5th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (1913–1984)
  • John George Charles Henry Alton Alexander Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot, Lord Talbot of Hensol, later 21st Earl of Shrewsbury (1914–1980)
  • Lady Mairi Nina Douglas-Hamilton (1914–1927); youngest child of 13th Duke of Hamilton and Nina Poore.
  • Mary Elizabeth Madden (born 1920)
  • Lord Richard Charles Percy (1921–1989)
  • Henry Paget, Earl of Uxbridge, later 7th Marquess of Anglesey (born 1922)
  • Hon George Lascelles, later 7th Earl of Harewood (born 1923)
  • (Edward) John Spencer, Viscount Althorp, later 8th Earl Spencer (1924–1992)
  • Lady Elizabeth Lambart (born 1924)
  • Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary of York, later Elizabeth II (born 1926)
  • Mary Bridget Anne Crichton (born 1927)
  • Hon Richard Gibbs, later 2nd Baron Wraxall (1928–2001)
  • (Mary) Rosalind Francis Felicia (born 1931)
  • Prince Edward of Kent, later Duke of Kent (born 1935)
  • (Mary Elizabeth) April Brunner (born 1936)
  • Prince William of Gloucester (1941–1972)
  • Lavinia Mary Coke (born 1944)
  • Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, now Queen Anne-Marie of Greece (born 1946)
  • Prince Charles of Edinburgh, now The Prince of Wales (born 1948)
  • Charles Alexander Vaughan Paget, Lord Paget de Beaudesert, later Marquess of Anglesey (born 1950)
  • Prince Albert of York, later George VI (1895–1952)
  • David Frederick Godfrey-Faussett (1913–1942)
  • David Arthur Coke Esq (1915–1941)
  • David Peter Seely Esq, later 4th Baron Mottistone (born 1920)
  • William Ward, Lord Ward, later 4th Earl of Dudley (born 1920)
  • Edwina Gillian Drummond (born 1920)
  • Maureen Ethné David Rhodes (born 1920)
  • North Edward Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton Esq (born 1922)
  • Lavinia Lascelles (born 1923)
  • Prince Andrew Andreevich of Russia (born 1923)
  • (Edward) John Spencer, Viscount Althorp, later 8th Earl Spencer (1924–1992)
  • Gerald David Lascelles Esq (1924–1998)
  • Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten, later 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (born 1924)
  • Patricia David Pandora Clifford (1930–1988)
  • Princess Margaret Rose of York (1930–2002)
  • Prince Edward of Kent, later Duke of Kent (born 1935)
  • Hon Edward John Peregrine Cust, later 7th Baron Brownlow (born 1936)
  • Timothy David Robert Monckton Esq (born 1955)
  • Edward Richard William Stanley Esq (born 1962)
  • Prince Alastair of Connaught (1914-1943), later known as Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
  • Mary Joan Fenella Hope Morley (born 1915)
  • Edward Crutchley (born 1922)
  • Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary of York, later Elizabeth II (born 1926)
  • Prince Edward of Kent, later Duke of Kent (born 1935)
  • Hon Mary Sarah-Jane Hope (born 1940)
  • Malcolm Nigel Forbes, later styled Master of Forbes (born 1943)
  • Hon Jane Annabelle Howard (born 1947)
  • Alexander George Colville (born 1955)
  • Ian Richard Peregrine Liddell-Grainger (born 1959)
  • Alice Christina Bridgeman (born 1936)
  • Hon Henry Durand Hotham, later 8th Baron Hotham (born 1940)
  • James Douglas Howard-Johnston (born 1942)
  • Hon Richard Bridgeman, later 7th Earl of Bradford (born 1947)
  • Hon Richard Nicholas Bethell, later 6th Baron Westbury (born 1950)
  • Henry Francis Cecil Vane (born 1959)
  • Alice Elizabeth Margaret Ramsay of Mar (born 1961)
  • Alexander William Joseph Stonor-Saunders (born 1964)
  • The Prince Edward, now Earl of Wessex (born 1964)
  • Ralph William Robert Thomas Stonor (born 1974)
  • Hon Diana Mary Herbert (born 1937)
  • Clarissa Duncombe (born 1938)
  • Lionel John Charles Seymour Dawson-Damer (1940–2000)
  • Edward Philip Gerald Hay Esq (born 1949)
  • Hon (Cynthia) Jane Spencer, later Baroness Fellowes (born 1957)
  • Henry Jocelyn Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp (born 1958)
  • Philip Edward Hartley Standish Plowden (born 1961)
  • Marcus Basil Ziani de Ferranti (born 1961)
  • Peter Marcus Worsley (born 1963)
  • Robert Frederick Calvert Eden (born 1964)
  • The Prince Edward, now Earl of Wessex (born 1964)
  • Anna Lucy Kindersley (born 1965)
  • Georgina Joyce Worsley (born 1967)
  • David Brodie Henderson (born 1970)
  • Michael James Douglas Campbell (born 1970)
  • Princess Maria Chiara of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (born 2005)
  • Hon Elizabeth Patricia White (born 1923)
  • Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
  • Gerald David Lascelles Esq (1924–1998)
  • Robin Rathmore Plunket Esq, later 8th Baron Plunket (born 1925)
  • Graeme Elizabeth Dalrymple-Stair (born 1926)
  • Elizabeth Rosemary Hardinge (1927–1995)
  • Hon Mary Anna Sibell Elizabeth Sturt (born 1929)
  • Lady Joanna Lambart (born 1929)
  • Princess Astrid of Norway (born 1932)
  • Hon Richard Lumley, later 12th Earl of Scarbrough (1932–2004)
  • Sebastian Yorke (born 1934)
  • Elizabeth Cynthia Seymour (born 1934)
  • Elizabeth Alice Abel Smith (born 1936)
  • Princess Alexandra of Kent (born 1936)
  • Elizabeth Maud Rhys (born 1937)
  • Andrew Arnold Lyon Wills (1937–1998)
  • Hon Elizabeth Angela Veronica Rose Nall-Cain (born 1938)
  • Hon George Andrew Beaumont (born 1938)
  • Princess Sofia of Greece, later Queen of Spain (born 1938)
  • Hon (Thomas) Patrick John Anson, later 5th Earl of Lichfield (1939–2005)
  • Princess Irene of the Netherlands (born 1940)
  • Prince William of Gloucester (1941–1972)
  • Princess Benedikte of Denmark (born 1944)
  • Prince Richard of Gloucester, later Duke of Gloucester (born 1944)
  • Elizabeth Sarah Wake-Walker (born 1944)
  • Hon Philip Reginald Smith (born 1945)
  • James Oliver Charles FitzRoy, Viscount Ipswich, later styled Earl of Euston (1947–2009)
  • Elizabeth Anne Joicey-Cecil (born 1950)
  • Princess Anne of Edinburgh, now Princess Royal (born 1950)
  • Susanna Elizabeth Haig (born 1951)
  • Ivo Nicholas Payan Dawnay (born 1952)
  • Hon Robert Jeremy Lascelles (born 1955)
  • Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia Spencer (born 1955)
  • Marilyn Emma Margaret Wills (1947–1970)
  • Prince Charles of Edinburgh, now The Prince of Wales (born 1948)
  • John David Ivor Spencer-Churchiill, Earl of Sunderland (1952–1955)
  • Richard Montagu Douglas Scott, Lord Eskdaill, later Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry (born 1954)
  • Sarah Charlotte Margaret Lowther (born 1954)
  • Charles David William Brand (born 1954)
  • Alexander Pepys Muir (born 1954)
  • Katharine Margaret Lucy Seymour-Conway (born 1959)
  • Lady Helen Windsor, later Lady Helen Taylor (born 1964)
  • Patrick Nichols Moffat (born 1968)
  • Hon Flora May Pamela Tennant (born 1970)
  • Hon Alicia Siobhan Margaret Nasreen Parsons, later Lady Alicia Parsons (born 1971)
  • Lady Rose Meriel Margaret Anson (born 1976)
  • Hon William Herbrand Thomas Sackville, later Lord Buckhurst (born 1979)
  • Lady Edwina Grosvenor (born 1981); daughter of Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, and Natalia Phillips
  • Alexandra Victoria Edwina Diana Knatchbull, later Lady Alexandra Hooper (born 1982); daughter of Lord and Lady Mountbatten of Burma.
  • Clare Elizabeth Cazalet (born 1983); daughter of Diana's childhood friend Isabel Dawnay (also a third cousin)[8] and granddaughter of the Queen Mother's race-horse trainer, Major Peter Cazalet.
  • Camilla Sophie Straker (born 1985), daughter of Reuben and Hon Sophie Straker (a former flatmate of Diana)[7]
  • Prince Philippos of Greece and Denmark (born 1986); youngest child of the former Constantine II and Queen Anne-Marie of Greece.
  • Leonora Diana Fiona Lonsdale (born 1986)
  • Jakie James Warren (born 1986)
  • Lady Mary Luise Wellesley (born 1986)
  • George Paradine Frost (born 1987); son of David Frost and Lady Carina
  • Antonia Rose Twiston-Davies (born 1987); daughter of Audley Twiston-Davies and Diana's friend Hon Caroline Harbord-Hamond.
  • Jack Falkner (born 1988)
  • Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick (born 1988)
  • Jack William Bartholomew (born 1989); son of William and Carolyn Bartholomew (flatmate of the Princess)[7]
  • Benjamin Peter Marcus Samuel (born 1989)
  • Antonia Lucy D. Harington (born 1991)
  • Daisy Blanche G. Soames (born 1992); daughter of Hon Rupert (brother of Nicholas Soames) and Camilla Soames.
  • Domenica Marianna Tertia Lawson (born 1995)
  • Samantha Julia Beresford (born 1969)
  • Elizabeth Paravicini (born 1970)
  • Hon James Charles Wood, later styled Lord Irwin (born 1977)
  • Honor Benson (born 1980)
  • Henry Baker (born 2013)
  • Frederick "Fred" Pettifer (born 2001)
  • Jasper George Galloway Dyer (born 2012)
  • Zalie Warren (born 2015); daughter of Jake and Lady Zoe Warren. Zalie was a bridesmaid at Prince Harry's 2018 wedding to Meghan Markle.
  • Florence van Cutsem (born 2014); daughter of Nicholas van Cutsem (son of Hugh van Cutsem) and Alice Hadden-Paton. Florence was a bridesmaid at Prince Harry's 2018 wedding to Meghan Markle.[9]
  • Lena Tindall (born 2018); younger daughter of Zara and Mike Tindall.
  • Rylan Litt (born c. 2011); daughter of the Duchess's friends Benita and Darren Litt.[9] Rylan was a bridesmaid at Meghan's 2018 wedding to Prince Harry.[9]
  • Remi Litt (born c. 2012); daughter of the Duchess's friends Benita and Darren Litt.[9] Remi was a bridesmaid at Meghan's 2018 wedding to Prince Harry.[9]
  • Alexandra Nada Victoria Mountbatten (born 1998), second daughter of Lord Ivar Mountbatten and Penelope Mountbatten.
  • Benjamin Christopher Montagu-Scott (born 2000)
  • William Rufus Taylor (born 2000)
  • Amelia Etherington (born 2001), daughter of Mark and Lady Alexandra Etherington.

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