2007-09-02 09:12:43 · 7 answers · asked by -naughtyprincess- 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Royalty
Names continue in the male line. Thus when Victoria, who was a Hanoverian married Albert of Saxe Coburg Gotha, her children had the name Saxe Coburg Gotha rather than Hanover. This was the name of Edward VII and George V. In 1917, George V changed the name from Saxe Coburg Gotha to Windsor because England was at war with Germany. At the same time, his relatives the Battenburgs changed their name from Battenburg to Mountbatten. Prince Philip is a Mountbatten. The House of Windsor will end when the Queen dies, just as the House of Hanover ended with the death of Victoria. The new king, Charles, will be of the House of Mountbatten-Windsor. They have decided to honour both sides of the family and use both names.
Mountbatten-Windsor will continue until the monarchy is abolished; a new Queen regnant comes along and has children who will have a different name; the line dies out and a relative with a different name takes over (Tudors to Stuarts for example); or the King is overthrown and another put in his place - as happened with the change from Plantagenet to Tudor and from Stuart to Hanover.
2007-09-02 14:29:41 · answer #1 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mountbatten-Windsor. The royal family's last name was changed to Windsor by King George V in 1917. This was complicated by the fact that Queen Elizabeth II proclaimed that her children would carry a hyphenated surname. Prince Phillip's surname was Mountbatten, hence Mountbatten-Windsor.
2007-09-02 09:24:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anton G 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Windsor
2007-09-02 09:20:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Windsor
2007-09-02 09:19:00 · answer #4 · answered by Joseph G 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sucks
2007-09-02 09:20:18 · answer #5 · answered by jamoca 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
of wales
2007-09-02 09:20:29 · answer #6 · answered by itssoeasy 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Titsooming. Believe it or not, but its true/
2007-09-02 09:21:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋