State · 1917

House of Windsor

A state of 1917 in Europe. Its line of rulers holds 4 people.

Wikidata records no end for this state; the atlas ends it where the borders dataset last draws it, 1917.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Rulers: 4; the British princess
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

The line of British princess.

died in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
Louise, Princess Royal	1867 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Marie of Romania	1875 – 1938	63 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death
Princess Patricia of Connaught	1886 – 1919	33 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife	1905 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record

4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1867 – 1938. Median reign 48 years. 2 of 3 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

coat of arms, undatedBadge of the House of Windsor · Public domain

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long a reign lasted, at the median63 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 97% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record4
has more rulers on record than 58% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

in the article

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1907 – 1927, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1917, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q81589 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.