2007-01-17 00:07:42 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Royalty
Sponge
2007-01-17 00:11:12 · answer #1 · answered by Joseph Manners 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
What has happened to ordinary courtesy of using capital letters for a monarch? Are manners a thing of the past? Rhetorical question!
Queen Victoria was the last Monarch of the House of Hanover. Under the protocol of that House, females were not allowed to carry on the name, therefore 2 years after becoming Queen and proposing to Her first Cousin Prince Albert ( it was thought too unbecoming for a man to be so forward as to ask the Monarch to marry him), Victoria's children took the Prince Consort's family name of Saxe Coburg Gotha. This remained the Royal Family's name until George V anglized it in 1918 to Windsor.
2007-01-17 08:13:01 · answer #2 · answered by Raymo 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wettin
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2007-01-17 00:12:43 · answer #3 · answered by Sir Sidney Snot 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Monarchs don't have surnames. Her dynastic name was Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Her predecessors had the dynastic name of Hanover but because women could not inherit the Hanover title, and because she was married to Albert of Saxe-Coburg, she adopted the new dynastic name. It stayed as the royal name until the First World War, when George V (Victoria's grandson) adopted the name Windsor instead.
2007-01-17 11:02:59 · answer #4 · answered by Bridget F 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The name Saxe-Coburg-Gotha came to the British Royal Family in 1840 with the marriage of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert, son of Ernst, Duke of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha. Queen Victoria herself remained a member of the House of Hanover.
2007-01-17 06:25:12 · answer #5 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Queen Victoria had no surname, but she was of the House of Hanover. Her son, Edward VII, was the first king of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the House of Queen Victoria's husband, Albert.
2007-01-17 04:21:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
As a married woman, most genealogists assign to her the surname von Wettin, based on the advice of the College of Heralds. She is therefore sometimes referred to as Alexandrina Victoria von Wettin, nÈe Hanover.
2007-01-17 00:15:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha when she married Albert.
During World War 1, King George deliberately changed the name of the royal family to Windsor as this was far more English than the existing name - he didn't want to remind Britain that his family was German!
2007-01-17 00:19:55 · answer #8 · answered by Kickinkitty 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg, the Royal family decide that having a German name during the WW1 was a bit tricky and so changed it to Windsor.
2007-01-17 00:21:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Windsor
2007-01-17 07:25:04 · answer #10 · answered by Year of the Monkey 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
After her marriage it was Saxe-Coburg Gotha after her husband who was Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
2007-01-17 00:12:51 · answer #11 · answered by KB 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋