Ancestry of Queen
Elizabeth II

Queen of the United Kingdom

Frances Howard

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• • 9th Great-grandmother of Elizabeth II — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3659 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Howard 
  • Mother:
  • Catherine Knyvet   
  • Birth Date:
  • 31 May 1590 
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Aug 1632 
  • Death Location:
  • Chiswick, Middlesex, England 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Robert Carr
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Dec 1613 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Chapel Royal, Whitehall, near London, England 
  • Child:

  Anne Carr (Ahnentafel No:1829 )

  • Notes: 

  • Frances Howard was the notorious beauty of the Essex divorce and Overbury murder cases.

• Sources for Frances Howard

  • ¹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1996, Vol. 13, p. 208.
  • ² Evans, Richard K., The Ancestry of Diana, Princess of Wales, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 276.
  • ³ Palmer, Alan and Veronica, Who's Who in Shakespeare's England, New York: St. Martin's Press (1999), 123.

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