what is the surname of the royal family?

Answer 1

Windsor

Answer 2

Until 1901 upon the death of our longest reigning monarch Queen Empress Victoria, the Royal House was Hanover.
As females were not allowed to continue this name, Prince Albert;s family name became the new Royal House, a rather long and complicated name SAXE - COBURG - GOTHA ! At the height of the First World War when anti-german feelings were at their highest, there was a great public outcry for the Royal Family to adopt a less german sounding name.
There was a list of names drawn up including England(that would have gone down well with the scots welsh and irish!) and names like Tudor, etc., but eventually George V decided WINDSOR would be fine and that has been the name of the Royal House since.
Grandchildren of The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have the surname Windsor-Mountbatten, however anyone in direct line to the Throne will take the name Windsor.
The Heir Presumptive (Prince William) has the title His Royal Highness Prince William of Wales in the same way that Her Majesty the Queen was Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth of York. These are titles, nothing to do with their surnames.

Answer 3

The royal family's surname is Windsor, but Elizabeth used her husband's name of Mountbatten from her marriage in 1947 until 1952. Once she became Queen, Churchill insisted she change it back to Windsor. After the birth of Prince Andrew a bishop preached a sermon complaining that only illegitimate children used their mother's surnames and a prince deserved better, and a 1960 decree stated that the names of their grandchildren would be Mountbatten-Windsor, incorporating Philip's with hers.

But the fact is they rarely use them, and call themselves what they want. William and Harry are called 'Wales' at Sandhurst, and when she married, Princess Anne called herself 'Anne Mountbatten-Windsor' even though this name was only meant to apply to Elizabeth and Philip's grandchildren.

Answer 4

If you mean the British royal family it is still referred to as the House of Windsor but the Queen decreed many years ago that members of the royal family who did not have titles ie Duke of York, Prince of Wales would bear the name Mountbatten-Windsor as Mountbatten was the name adopted by Prince Phillip when he became a British Subject.

Answer 5

They didn't have surnames until WW1. They just took the dynasty name, in the case of our Royal Family, Queen Victoria's children were Saxe-Coburg-Gothas after Prince Albert's family name.

Due to anti German feeling in 1917, George V changed the name to Windsor but only for princes and princesses who hold titles. Everybody else is called Mountbatten-Windsor but even Princess Royal and the Duke of York have Mountbatten-Windsor on their wedding certificates.

Answer 6

The British Royal family I presume?

Windsor-Mountbatten (Windsor being the name of the Queen's Royal house and Mountbatten being Prince Philip's name!)

Answer 7

The Royal Family of the Nederlands?
I think it is the Royal Houe of Orange.

The Royal House of Denmark?
House of Glücksborg

The Royal House of Sweden?
?? Bernadotte ??


The U.K.?
Windsor
The Queen Mother was a Bowes-Lyon

Answer 8

Windsor

Answer 9

What "royal" family? In england, the current tenants of buckingham palace go by the alias "windsor", though it used to be Battenberg and some horrid German stuff, but the surname of the legitimate kings of England is Stuart.

in Arabia it is al saud. in other countries... I never checked

Answer 10

Windsor