What is the last name of the royal family of England?

Question

We only hear of them called by their title and first name. What is their last name?

Answer 1

Well, Queen Elizabeth II, her last name was Windsor. So, I do believe that the whole family goes by that name.

Queen Elizabeth's full name is Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor.

The names of dynasties tended to change when the line of succession was taken by a rival faction within the family (for example, Henry IV and the Lancastrians, Edward IV and the Yorkists, Henry VII and the Tudors), or when succession passed to a different family branch through females (for example, Henry II and the Angevins, James I and the Stuarts, George I and the Hanoverians).

Just as children can take their surnames from their father, so sovereigns normally take the name of their 'House' from their father. For this reason, Queen Victoria's eldest son Edward VII belonged to the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (the family name of his father Prince Albert). Edward VII's son George V became the second king of that dynasty when he succeeded to the throne in 1910.

In 1917, there was a radical change, when George V specifically adopted Windsor, not only as the name of the 'House' or dynasty, but also as the surname of his family. The family name was changed as a result of anti-German feeling during the First World War, and the name Windsor was adopted after the Castle of the same name.

At a meeting of the Privy Council on 17 July 1917, George V declared that 'all descendants in the male line of Queen Victoria, who are subjects of these realms, other than female descendants who marry or who have married, shall bear the name of Windsor'.

The Royal Family name of Windsor was confirmed by The Queen after her accession in 1952. However, in 1960, The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh decided that they would like their own direct descendants to be distinguished from the rest of the Royal Family (without changing the name of the Royal House), as Windsor is the surname used by all the male and unmarried female descendants of George V.

It was therefore declared in the Privy Council that The Queen's descendants, other than those with the style of Royal Highness and the title of Prince/Princess, or female descendants who marry, would carry the name of Mountbatten-Windsor.

Answer 2

Under an ambiguously-worded Order-in-Council issued in 1960, the name Mountbatten-Windsor is the personal surname of some of the descendants of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. It differs from the official name of the British Royal Family or Royal House, which remains Windsor. The adoption of this surname does not apply to members of the royal family who are not descended from the Queen. The Order specifically applies the surname to those descendants of the Queen not holding Royal styles and titles but in practice it is used by all the British Royal Family descended from Queen Elizabeth II as their surname, as shown at the marriages of the Duke of York and the Princess Royal, when both used Mountbatten-Windsor in their entries in the marriage registers.

Answer 3

Their last name legally is Windsor. They changed their name from Saxe-Gotha Coburg to Windsor after World War I because of Anti-German sentiment. The Royal family in techincally not English; they are mostly German. For example, Queen Elizabeth's full name is Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, but her son Charles's name is Charles Phillip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor, because he is a descendant of the Queen. Only the Queen uses the surname Windsor. The rest of the family uses the surname Mountbatten-WIndsor.

Answer 4

The surname of the royal family of England is Windsor.

Answer 5

Mountbatten-Windsor only applies to those descendants of Elizabeth and Philip who are not HRHs. The only people presently who fall into this category are Peter and Zara Philips. It does not apply to Andrew and Anne, though royals play by their own rules and call themselves what they want. Their name was only Mountbatten from 1947 to 1952, between the royal wedding and her accession to the throne.

Answer 6

Stuart. the last name of the Royal family of England, Scotland Wales and Ireland is Stuart.

Don't believe those windsor upstarts, they are usurpers.

Answer 7

They currently go by the surname, "Windsor." Before the first World War, their name was Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was formerly the Royal House of several European monarchies, and branches currently reign in Belgium through the descendants of Leopold I, and in the United Kingdom and its associated Commonwealth realms through the descendants of Prince Albert. In the United Kingdom, King George V changed the name from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the House of Windsor in 1917.

Answer 8

Windsor She is the fortieth monarch since William I (William the Conqueror), and also the great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

Answer 9

Windsor


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Answer 10

Windsor (by Decree)