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Contents 1 House of Hanover 2 Cost Per Year to the Tax Payer 3 Family Tree 4 the Earl of Harewood 5 Princess Margaret?

[edit] House of Hanover

I really don't think that the current members of the House of Hanover should be included. They descend from George III, who reigned in the 1800s. Although they style themselves Prince/Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, those titles are not 'officially' recognized in the UK. Furthermore, I took out a paragraph which stated "the Royal House of Hanover isn't really royal." That is completely wrong, just because the House of Hanover no longer reigns in any given jurisdiction doesn't mean it is no longer royal. Eddo 07:25, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cost Per Year to the Tax Payer

BBC News just reported that the royal family costs the tax payer 62 pence per person per year. Apparently, this only includes the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. Ethoen 12:22, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Family Tree

When removing some useless text placed by what appears to me as a vandal, I noticed that the very same person had removed the family tree section from the article after looking at the edit history. However, when I attempted to restore the section it didn't come out too well in the Edit preview, so Cancelled editing at that point. So, this is just to point out that it needs placing back in the article. Think777 (talk) 16:57, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] the Earl of Harewood

Why is the Earl of Harewood, a first cousin of the Queen, not listed as a member of the Royal Family when all the Queen's other surviving first cousins are? Nudge67 (talk) 21:28, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Simply because he is not a royal Danbarnesdavies 00:10, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Princess Margaret?

Shouldn't Princess Margaret, the Queen's sister, be included in the family tree? I know she's deceased, but so are others in the tree, and she IS the child of a Monarch, after all. 129.22.52.19 (talk) 23:34, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Everyone in the family tree is either a current member of the royal family or one of those former members who serves to show their connection — Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (d.) is there to show how HRH The Duke of Gloucester is related to HM. Margaret isn't there because she has no royal descendants. Danbarnesdavies 00:10, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Ah, thank you very much. 129.22.52.19 (talk) 18:37, 16 September 2008 (UTC)