do the Royal family that rule England have a last name?

Question

if they do why ain't they ever refered to by their first and last names like the rest of us?

Answer 1

They do...The last name is Windsor. No royalty is ever referred to by last name, only position and first name. In the U.K., it is the House of Windsor that rules.

Answer 2

Titled Royals do not have a surname, however, the Queen is a member of the House of Windsor, it was a name change from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in the wake of Anti-German feeling during World War I. The House name came from the Husband of Queen Victoria (who was the last monarch of the House of Hanover).

Charles had indicated when he becomes King that the House name will be Mountbatten-Windsor as Prince Philips name when he became a naturalised British Citizen was Mountbatten (the Anglicized name of Battenburg)

Answer 3

The real surname of the English royal family is Wettin. The current Queen of England was a direct descent from the House of Wettin. However, high anti-German feeling among the people during World War I prompted the Royal Family to abandon all titles held under the German crown and to change German-sounding titles and house names (Wettin) for English-sounding versions (Windsor). On 17 July, 1917, a royal proclamation by George V provided that all agnatic descendants of Queen Victoria would be members of the House of Windsor with the personal surname of Windsor. The name Windsor has a long association with English royalty through the town of Windsor and Windsor Castle.
After Queen Elizabeth II's marriage to Prince Philip Mountbatten, she officially announced that all their royal descendants will use the surname of Mountbatten-Windsor. When Prince Charles becomes King, he will be the first monarch to establish the House of Mountbatten-Windsor.
All royal members do use their surname except the Queen, her children and grandchildren. Since they are considered the direct descendants of a monarch, they could use their special style and titles, so it is just a mere privilege status.

Answer 4

Windsor. But it's just a name truly the older part is a branch of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Family of the House of Wettin (Since Queen Victoria married Prince Albert) and the newer one is a branch of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg line of the House of Oldenburg (Since this is Prince Philip's surname) Anyway Queen Elizabeth said that her descendants should carry the 'Mountbatten-Windsor' surname but they would be know as Family of Windsor, Mountbatten is the english form of Battenberg that is the surname of Philip's mother that he adopted before marry Queen Elizabeth. During the 1st World War they changed their last name so it sounded 'less german and more english'

Answer 5

They don't rule ENGLAND! I'm fed up with people getting this wrong. They are the Constitutional monarhs of the United Kingdom & the Commonwealth. Their surname is Windsor. It was German previously, but they changed it during WWI (I think) as obviously the Germans were the enemy then.

Answer 6

Windsor

Answer 7

Windsor

Answer 8

Yes. At the moment it is Windsor. It was changed from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in 1917 during WW1 to make people think that they had no connection with Germany

Answer 9

Windsor[saxe-coburg].

Answer 10

Windsor
but it used to be Battenberg

Rolaty usually just use first names or even coronation names