Royal Families and Houses of the World – Index

Encompasses the History and lists the Genealogy

of the Royal Houses and Families of the World.

  

 

 This is a list of regnant and non-regnant princely, royal and imperial houses of the world. The names of reigning monarchs are in bold text. Names used if the individual were reigning are given if known, otherwise the name given is the name currently used for them.

Country		Royal House		Monarch – Pretender
	Algeria		Osman	Sultan Bayezid III
	Burundi		Ntwero	Queen Rosa
	Central Africa		Bokassa	Emperor Bokassa II
	Egypt and Sudan		Muhammad Ali	King Fu’ad II
	Ethiopia		Solomon	Emperor Zera Yacob II
	Lesotho		Moshesh	King Letsie III
	Libya		Senussi	King Muhammad I
	Madagascar		Merina	(none)
	Morocco		Alaoui	King Mohammed VI
	Rwanda		Ndahindurwa	King Kigeli V
	Sudan		Muhammad Ali	King Fu’ad II
	Swaziland		Dlamini	King Mswati III
	Tunisia		Husain	King Muhammad X
	Zanzibar		Al ‘Bu Sa’id	Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah Al-‘Bu Sa’idi

Africa –

South Africa

Country	Royal House	Monarch (or Pretender)
South Africa	Windsor Dynasty	Queen Elizabeth II
South Africa	Mahlangu Dynasty – amaNdebele-kaNdzundza	King Ingwenyama Mabhoko III
South Africa	Mabhena Dynasty – amaNdebele-kaManala	King Ingwenyama Makhosoke Mabhena
South Africa	Bafokeng tribe	Kgosi (King) Leruo Tshekedi Molotlegi
South Africa	Monomatapa – Balobedu	Rain Queen Makobo Constance Modjadji VI
South Africa	Mavunda	Chief Khosi Pheni Ngove
South Africa	AmaNyawuza Dynasty – Eastern Pondoland	King Mpondombini Thandizulu Sigcau
South Africa	AmaNyawuza Dynasty – Western Pondoland	King Ndamase Ndamase
South Africa	AmaDlomo and amaHala Dynasties – Thembu tribe	iNkosi (Chief) Buyelekhaya Zwelinbanzi Dalindyebo
South Africa	AmaHegebe – Thembu tribe	iNkosi (Chief) Patekile Sango Holomisa
South Africa	MaKhwinde Dynasty – Venda	Khosi Peter Toni Mphephu Ramabulana
South Africa	AmaRarabe – Xhosa	Kumkani (King) Maxhob’ayakhawuleza Sandile
South Africa	AmaTshawe Dynasty (AmaGcaleka – Xhosa)	Kumkani (King) Zwelonke Sigcawu
South Africa	Kama Dynasty (AmaGqunukhwebe – Inland – Xhosa)	Inkosi Enkhulu (Paramount Chief) Nkosana Zwelimjongile Kama
South Africa	ImiDushane kaNdlambe – Xhosa	Inkosie Enkhulu (Paramount Chief) Ngubesizwe Ludwe Siwane
South Africa	House of Senzangakhona (Zulu)	King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu

Africa – Uganda

The Republic of Uganda recognizes subsidiary monarchial states as "traditional cultural entities". The six major Kingdoms are listed below. Of these, only Nkore (Ankole) remains unrecognized by the government of the Republic of Uganda.

State		Royal House		Monarch – Pretender
unknown	Acholi		House of Acholi	David Acana Onen II, Rwot of Acholi
	Busoga		House of Busoga	Disputed
	Bunyoro-Kitara		House of Babito	Rukirabasaija Agutamba Solomon Gafabusa Iguru I
	Buganda		Buganda	Muwenda Mutebi II
	Toro		House of Toro	Rukirabasaija Rukidi IV
	Ankole		House of Nkore	John Barigye, Omugabe of Nkore

Americas

Country		Royal House		Monarch – Pretender
	Antigua and Barbuda		Windsor	King Charles III
	Araucania and Patagonia		Tounens	King Felipe
	Bahamas		Windsor	King Charles III
	Barbados	Image unavailable
	Belize
	Bolivia			King Nicholas I
	Brazil		House of Orléans-Braganza Braganza line Orléans sub-line	Emperor Luís I
	Canada		Windsor	King Charles III
	Greenland		Oldenburg	Queen Margrethe II
	Grenada		Windsor	King Charles III
	Jamaica		Windsor	King Charles III
	Haiti (Empire)		Dessalines
			Soulouque
	Haiti (Kingdom)		Christophe
	Mexico		Iturbide-Habsburg-Iturbide  sub-line	Emperor Maximiliano II
	Miskito		Mískita	Norton Cuthbert Clarence
	New Granada		Bourbon	Juan Carlos I
	New Spain
	Peru
	Río de la Plata
	Saint Kitts and Nevis		Windsor	King Charles III
	Saint Lucia
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
	The Thirteen Colonies and East Florida
	Trinidad and Tobago		Windsor	King Charles III

Asia

Country		Royal House		Monarch – Pretender
	Abu Dhabi		Al Nahyan	Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
	Ajman		Al-Nuaimi	Sheikh Humaid bin Rashid Al Nuaimi
	Afghanistan		Barakzai	King Ahmed Shah
	Bahrain		Al-Khalifa	King Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah
	Bhutan		Wangchuck	King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck
	Brunei		Bolkiah	Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
	Cambodia		Norodom	King Norodom Sihamoni
	China (Qing dynasty)		Aisin Gioro	Emperor Hêngchen
	Dubai		Al-Maktoum	Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
	Fujairah		Al-Sharqi	Shaikh Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi
	Iran (Pahlavi dynasty)		Pahlavi	Reza Shah II
	Iran (Qajar dynasty)		Qajar	Mohammad Hassan Mirza Shah
	Iraq Hejaz Syria		Hashim	King Ra’ad
				King Ali I
	Japan		Imperial House of Japan	Emperor Akihito
	Jordan		Hashim	King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein
	Korea		Yi[5]	Empress Haewon
				Emperor Won
	Kuwait		Al-Sabah	Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
	Laos		Khun Lo	King Soulivong
	Maldives		Huraa	King Muhammad Nur ud-din
	Manchukuo		Aisin Gioro	Emperor Purèn
	Myanmar		Konbaung	King Taw Phaya
	Nepal		Shah	King Gyanendra
	Oman		Al ‘Bu Sa’id	Sultan Qaboos
	Qatar		Al-Thani	Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa
	Ras al-Khaimah		Al-Qasimi	Saud bin Saqr al Qasimi
	Ryukyu		Shō	Sho Mamoru
	Saudi Arabia		Saud	King Abdullah
	Sharjah		Al-Qasimi	Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohamed Al-Qasimi
	Sri Lanka Kingdom of Kandy)		Nayakkara	Mokanbabu Rajah
	Thailand		Chakri	King Rama IX
	Turkey		Osman	Sultan Bayezid III
	Umm Al-Quwain		Al-Mu’alla	Sheikh Saud bin Rashid Al Mu’alla
	Vietnam		Nguyễn	Emperor Bảo Thắng
	Yemen		Hamidaddin	King Ageel bin Muhammad al-Badr
	Yogyakarta Sultanate (Indonesia)		Hamengkubuwana	Hamengkubuwono X

Malaysia

Country		Royal House		Monarch – Pretender
	Kedah		Durbar Raja/Merong Mahawangsa	Sultan Abdul Halim
	Pahang		Bendahara of Pahang	Sultan Ahmad Shah
	Johor		House of Temenggong of Johore	Sultan Ibrahim Ismail
	Perak		Malacca Sultanate	Sultan Azlan Shah
	Negeri Sembilan		Minangkabau	King Tuanku Mukhriz
	Perlis		House of Jamalullail (Perlis)	Raja Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin
	Terengganu		Wan Ahmad	Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin
	Kelantan		Raja Jembal	Muhammad Faris Petra
	Selangor		Bugis	Sultan Sharafuddin Idris S

Europe

Country		Royal House		Monarch – Pretender
	Albania (Kingdom of Albania)		Zogu	King Leka II
	Albania (Principality of Albania)		Wied
	Anhalt		Ascania	Duke Eduard II
	Armenia
			Bagratuni Dynasty
			Rubenids
			Hethumids
			House of Lusignan	Chevalier Livio Missir Mamachi de Lusignan
			House of Doghramadjyan
	Austria-Hungary		Habsburg-Lorraine	Emperor Karl II
	Baden		Zähringen	Grand Duke Maximilian
	Bavaria		Wittelsbach	King Franz I
	Belgium		Wettin Saxe-Coburg and Gotha line	King Albert II
	Bohemia		Habsburg-Lorraine	King Karel IV
	Bosnia		Kotromanić	Extinct
	Brunswick		Este-Guelph line Hanover sub-line	Duke Ernst August III
	Bulgaria		Wettin Saxe-Coburg and Gotha line	King Simeon II
	Duchy of Courland and Semigallia		Biron	Duke Ernst-Johann
	Croatia		Habsburg-Lorraine	King Oto I
	Croatia		Karađorđević	King Aleksandar II
	Cyprus		Wettin Saxe-Coburg and Gotha line renamed Windsor	Queen Elizabeth II
			House of Lusignan	Chevalier Livio Missir Mamachi de Lusignan
			House of Cornaro
			Komnenos
	Denmark		Oldenburg Glücksburg line	Queen Margrethe II
	Finland		Lorraine-Brabant Hesse-Kassel or Hesse-Cassel line	King Philipp
	France (Bourbon kingdom)		BourbonLegitimist line	King Louis XX
	France (July Monarchy)		Orléans Orléanist line	King Henri VII
	France (Empire)		Bonaparte	Emperor Napoléon VII
	Georgia		BagrationGruzinsky line	Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky
			BagrationMukhrani line	David Bagration of Mukhrani and Zornoza
	Germany		Hohenzollern	Emperor Georg Friedrich
	Greece		Oldenburg Glücksburg line	King Constantine II
	Hanover		EsteGuelph line Hanover sub-line	King Ernst August V
			Windsor	Queen Elizabeth II
	Hesse		Mountbatten	Prince Philip
	Hesse		Lorraine-Brabant Hesse-Kassel or Hesse-Cassel line	Grand Duke Moritz
	Hesse-Kassel(or Hesse-Cassel)			Elector Moritz
	Hohenzollern-Hechingen		HohenzollernSigmaringen line	Prince Karl Friedrich
	Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
	Hungary		Habsburg-Lorraine	King Károly V
	Iceland		Oldenburg Glücksburg line	Queen Margrét I
	Italy		Savoy	King Vittorio Emanuele IV
			SavoyAosta line	King Amedeo
	Liechtenstein		Liechtenstein	Prince Hans Adam II
	Lithuania		Württemberg	Duke Wilhelm Albert
	Lippe		Lippe	Prince Armin
				Prince Friedrich Wilhelm
	Luxembourg		BourbonParma line Nassau-Weilburg sub-line	Grand Duke Henri
	Malta		Wettin Saxe-Coburg and Gotha line renamed Windsor	Queen Elizabeth II
	Mecklenburg-Schwerin		MecklenburgStrelitz line	Extinct
	Mecklenburg-Strelitz			Grand Duke Georg Borwin
	Modena and Reggio		Habsburg-LorraineAustria-Este line	Duke Lorenz
	Monaco		Grimaldiagnatically Polignac	Prince Albert II
	Montenegro		Petrović-Njegoš	King Nicholas II
	Navarre		Bourbon	Queen Alice
	Netherlands		LippeOrange-Nassau line	Queen Beatrix
	Normandy		Windsor	King Charles III
	Norway		OldenburgGlücksburg line	King Harald V
	Oldenburg		OldenburgHolstein-Gottorp line	Grand Duke Anton Günther
	Parma		Bourbon	Duke Carlo V
	Poland		Bourbon	King Louis XX
			Habsburg-Lorraine	Karol II
			Jagiellon
			Wettin	Maria Emanuel
			Leszczyński
			Piast
			Poniatowski
			Přemyslid (Bohemia-Opawski)
	Portugal		Braganza	King Duarte III
			Wettin Braganza-Saxe-Coburg and Gotha line	Extinct
	Prussia		Hohenzollern	King Georg Friedrich
	Reuss Elder Line		Reuss	Prince Heinrich IV
	Reuss Junior Line
	Romania		Hohenzollern Sigmaringen line	King Michael I
	Russia			Empress Maria
	Saxe-Altenburg		Wettin (Ernestine Line)	Extinct
	Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
			Wettin (Ernestine Line)	Duke Andreas
			Windsor	Queen Elizabeth II
	Saxe-Meiningen		Wettin (Ernestine Line)	Duke Konrad
	Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach		Wettin (Ernestine Line)	Grand Duke Michael
	Saxony		Wettin (Albertine Line)	King Maria Emanuel
	Schaumburg-Lippe		Lippe	Prince Alexander
	Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt		Schwarzburg	Extinct
	Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
	Serbian Empire		Nemanjić	Extinct
	Serbia (Kingdom)		Obrenović	Extinct
	Serbia (Kingdom)		Karađorđević	Crown Prince Alexander
	Spain		Bourbon	King Juan Carlos I
	Sweden		Bernadotte	King Carl XVI Gustav
	Tuscany		Habsburg-Lorraine	Grand Duke Sigismund
	Two Sicilies		BourbonTwo Sicilies line	King Carlo VIII
				King Charles I
	United Baltic Duchy		Mecklenburg House of Mecklenburg-Schwerin line	Extinct, but Daughter of Duke still alive Duchess Woizlawa
	United Kingdom		Wettin Saxe-Coburg and Gotha line renamed Windsor	King Charles III
	Waldeck and Pyrmont		Waldeck	Prince Wittekind Adolf
	Württemberg		Württemberg	King Carl
	Yugoslavia		Karađorđević	King Aleksandar II

Oceania

Country		Royal House		Monarch – Pretender
	Australia		Windsor	King Charles III
	Cocos Islands		Clunies-Ross	King Ross V
	Hawaii		Kawananakoa	King Kawananakoa
			Keoua Nui	King Kalokuokamaile
	New Zealand		Windsor	King Charles III
	Papua New Guinea
	Solomon Islands
	Samoa			Malietoa Tanumafili II last king no successor announced
	Sigave (Wallis and Futuna)		Vanai	Tuʻi Polikalepo Kolivai
	Tonga		Tupou	George Tupou V
	Tuvalu		Windsor	King Charles III
	Uvea (Wallis and Futuna)		Takumasiva	Tuʻi Kapiliele Faupala