The British Royal Family
The House of Windsor is one of the world's most publicly documented family systems. Its genealogy, marriages, divorces, and succession events have been recorded in exhaustive detail, making it an ideal subject for demonstrating how a well-known family can be structured in a genogram.
Family Overview
The genogram is centred on King Charles III (b. 1948) as the identified person and spans four generations: his parents Queen Elizabeth II (1926–2022) and Prince Philip (1921–2021); Charles with his two marriages; his sons Prince William and Prince Harry with their wives and children.
Several patterns are visible across the family system:
- Divorce and remarriage: Charles's first marriage to Diana Spencer ended in divorce in 1996; Diana died in 1997. His remarriage to Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005 demonstrates how the genogram represents a blended family with a deceased former spouse.
- Longevity pattern: Queen Elizabeth (96) and Prince Philip (99) both reached exceptional ages — a notable longevity pattern on the parental generation.
- Fourth generation: William and Catherine's three children (George, Charlotte, Louis) and Harry and Meghan's two children (Archie, Lilibet) complete the diagram.
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What This Sample Demonstrates
The RoyalFamily.geno file demonstrates:
- Representing the identified person (Charles) with a double border.
- Divorce, a deceased former spouse, and remarriage using standard notation.
- A four-generation diagram with two distinct child branches in the third generation.
- Annotating birth/death years alongside biographical data.