His will swept aside the Succession to the Crown Act 1543, excluded both Mary and Elizabeth from the succession, and instead declared as his heir Lady Jane Grey, granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary, Duchess of Suffolk.

Contradicting the Succession Act, which restored Mary and Elizabeth to the line of succession, Edward named Dudley's daughter-in-law Lady Jane Grey, the granddaughter of Henry VIII's younger sister Mary, Queen of France, as his successor.

Katharine, Duchess of Kent ; her son and grandson, Lord Nicholas Windsor and Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick, respectively, both of whose wives are Catholic, and her granddaughter, Lady Marina-Charlotte Windsor, as well as politicians such as Baroness Masham of Ilton and Ann Widdecombe, and, most recently, former Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose wife and children are Catholic, are prominent among laypeople who have converted.

John Beaufort's granddaughter Lady Margaret Beaufort, a considerable heiress, was married to Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond.

This gave the succession to his cousin Lady Jane Grey, the granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary Tudor, who, after the death of Louis XII of France in 1515 had married Henry VIII's favourite Charles Brandon, the first Duke of Suffolk.

* July 16 – Lady Frances Brandon, granddaughter of Henry VII

* Lady Louise Windsor, granddaughter to Queen Elizabeth II

Through her father, Lady Margaret Beaufort was a granddaughter of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, a great-granddaughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and his mistress and third wife Katherine Swynford, and a great-great-granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

* Buckingham's paternal grandmother Lady Anne Neville was a granddaughter of John of Gaunt through his daughter Joan Beaufort, making her a great-granddaughter of Edward III.

The other is Susan Foreman, the Doctor's granddaughter, although Susan is never explicitly identified as a Time Lady.

Kenneth's granddaughter, Gruoch daughter of Boite ( Gruoch ingen Boite meic Cináeda ) — William Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth — was wife firstly of Gille Coemgáin, Mormaer of Moray, and secondly of King Macbeth ; her son by Gille Coemgáin, Lulach ( Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin ), would briefly succeed Macbeth as King of Scotland.

In 2011, his " Lady Blunt " violin from 1721, which is in pristine condition, was sold at Tarisio auctions for £ 9. 8 million, or about $ 15. 9 million ( it is named after Lord Byron's granddaughter Lady Anne Blunt, who owned it for 30 years ).

According to interviews with Judge in the 1840s, the First Lady had promised the young woman as a wedding gift to her granddaughter Elizabeth Parke Custis in Virginia and Judge feared she would never gain freedom.

She and her sister are the only granddaughters of the Queen to hold the title of Princess of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the style Her Royal Highness: although their cousin, Lady Louise Windsor, is legally a princess, in accordance with Letters Patent issued by King George V, she is not styled as such at the request of the Queen and her parents ; their other female first cousin, Zara Phillips, is the Queen's granddaughter through the female-line, therefore allowing her only the title and style of her father, who has none.

His wife, Lady Ramsay, granddaughter of Dr Andrew Marshall of Kirkintilloch, accompanied him in many of his journeys and is the author of Everyday Life in Turkey ( 1897 ) and The Romance of Elisavet ( 1899 ).

It was this same William Hawtrey who, immediately after completing the house, guarded a royal prisoner at Chequers — Lady Mary Grey, younger sister of Lady Jane Grey and great granddaughter of King Henry VII.

Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy ( Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel ; born 25 December 1936 ) is the youngest granddaughter of King George V and Mary of Teck.

Princess Patricia of Connaught ( Victoria Patricia Helena Elizabeth ; later Lady Patricia Ramsay ; 17 March 1886 – 12 January 1974 ) was a member of the British Royal Family, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

On 2 April 1717 he increased his Whig connections by marrying Lady Henrietta Godolphin the granddaughter of the Duke of Marlborough, a national hero following his victories in the recent European war and considered a Whig icon.

In 1718 the Duke married Lady Harriet Godolphin, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Godolphin and granddaughter of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough.

Mary was a granddaughter of Lady Maria Walpole, an illegitimate daughter of Robert Walpole and Maria Skerret.

He was devoted to his wife Lady Agnes Duff, the youngest daughter of James Duff, 5th Earl Fife by his wife, Lady Agnes Hay, daughter of William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll and granddaughter of King William IV by his mistress, the actress Mrs. Dorothy Jordan.

On 22 May 1740, he married Lady Jemima Campbell, only daughter of John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane, and granddaughter and heiress of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent, who became in her own right Marchioness Grey.

Lord Hardwicke married Lady Jemima Campbell, only daughter of John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane, and granddaughter and heiress of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent, who succeeded her grandfather as Marchioness Grey in 1722 ( a title which became extinct on her death ).

However he obtained a special remainder of the marquessate, in default of his heirs male, to his granddaughter, Jemima Campbell ( who was the daughter and only surviving child of his eldest daughter, the former Lady Amabel Grey, who was the late wife of Lord Glenorchy ( later 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland )).

It was created on 19 May 1740 for Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent, with remainder to the male issue of his body and in default thereof to his granddaughter the Honourable Jemima Campbell and the heirs male of her body.

He was succeeded in the barony of Lucas ( which could be passed on through female lines ) and in the marquessate of Grey according to the special remainder by his granddaughter Jemima, the second Marchioness Grey.

Left without a male heir after the death of his son George Grey, Earl of Harold, in 1733, he was created Marquess Grey in 1740, with a special remainder to his granddaughter Lady Jemima Campbell and her heirs male.

Married Eleanora Campbell, granddaughter of John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll.

The 1st Earl's wife Margaret was the granddaughter and heiress of Hugh Campbell, who had been created Lord Campbell of Loudoun ; he resigned the peerage in favour of his grandson-in-law, who was later created an earl.

Her father first took her in 1797 to Inveraray, home of his client and patron John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, where she became a friend of the family, especially of a granddaughter, Charlotte Clavering ( died 1841 ), with whom she corresponded and who was initially involved in the writing of Ferrier's first novel Marriage, although in the end Clavering's contribution to it was limited to the section entitled ' The History of Mrs Douglas '.

Lord Anglesey married, firstly, Eleanora Campbell, second daughter of John Campbell and granddaughter of John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, on 5 August 1819.

Edward Cecil Lascelles ( 1887 – 1935 ), married Joan Balfour, a granddaughter of George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll.

In spite of this, it had been agreed with the Serbian Government that Prince Mirko of Montenegro, who was married to Natalija Konstantinovic, the granddaughter of Princess Anka Obrenovic, an aunt of King Milan, would be proclaimed Crown Prince of Serbia in the event that the marriage of King Alexander and Queen Draga was childless .< ref name =" njeg ">

However, his mother consolidated the Doukas family connection by arranging the Emperor's marriage to Irene Doukaina, granddaughter of the Caesar John Doukas, the uncle of Michael VII, who would not have supported Alexios otherwise.

The Act of Settlement provided that the throne would pass to the Electress Sophia of Hanover – a granddaughter of James VI of Scotland and I of England, niece of Charles I of Scotland and England – and her Protestant descendants who had not married a Roman Catholic ; those who were Roman Catholic, and those who married a Roman Catholic, were barred from ascending the throne " for ever ".

Lord Brabourne counselled that the intense scrutiny of the press would be more likely to drive Mountbatten's godson and granddaughter apart than together.

One of the children of that marriage, Charles Darwin, would also marry a Wedgwood — Emma, Josiah's granddaughter.

Sobran suggests that the so-called procreation sonnets were part of a campaign by Burghley to persuade Southampton to marry his granddaughter, Oxford's daughter Elizabeth de Vere, and says that it was more likely that Oxford would have participated in such a campaign than that Shakespeare would know the parties involved or presume to give advice to the nobility.

Sophia, a granddaughter of James VI and I, died less than two months before she would have become queen ; her claim to the thrones passed on to her eldest son, George Louis, Elector of Hanover, who ascended them as George I on 1 August 1714 Old Style.

Filiation was also used for daughters, in which case filius and nepos would be replaced by filia ( daughter ) and neptis ( granddaughter ).

The anti-semitic Vichy Regime would later close its eyes to the arrest of Dreyfus's Jewish granddaughter, Madeleine Levy, by the Gestapo.

Augustus seems to have had Tiberius adopt Germanicus as heir because of the latter's marriage to his granddaughter Agrippina ( the last of Augustus ' living grandchildren not in disgrace ) ensured that his own descendents ( through a female line ) would inherit one day-but not because of any secret blood relationship.

Anna B., granddaughter of James and Mary, felt the area would prosper and began promoting the idea of a riverfront city.

His granddaughter through another child, Anna Leopoldovna would become a non-crowned ruler of Russia.

This would make her a granddaughter of Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General under President Abraham Lincoln, and a great-granddaughter of Francis Preston Blair, a journalist and adviser to President Andrew Jackson, and Levi Woodbury, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

Under any circumstance, he was the son of Ingrid Ylva, who according to Olaus Petri was a daughter of Sune Sik and granddaughter to Sverker the Elder, which would make Birger a matrilineal member of the House of Sverker.

In her speech at the symposium, she suggested that Soviet and American leaders exchange granddaughters for two weeks every year, arguing that a president " wouldn't want to send a bomb to a country his granddaughter would be visiting ".

In the hope that a granddaughter would soften Derby's opposition to their marriage the Burgoynes returned to Britain in 1755.

Marie Gaudin's granddaughter, Gabrielle d ' Estrées, was born in the château and would herself grow up to become mistress to another king, Henry IV of France.

: " The Bad Seed would have been a stronger novel without this false premise — the granddaughter of a murderess is no more likely to be a murderess than the granddaughter of a seamstress, or anyone else.

His granddaughter Barbara Hutton would gain much publicity for her lifestyle, squandering more than $ 50 million.

Once married, although granddaughter Philippa of Eltham was grown, it was decided they would continue working for her and the king.