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Date Posted: 17:10:56 04/29/11 Fri
Author: BC
Subject: an answer ...
In reply to: BC 's message, "a question ...." on 16:13:11 04/29/11 Fri

"Their name is 'Windsor' now ..."
"but this was not always the last name used by the Royal family..."

"Their name sounded too German so it was changed."
"By decree of the Queen ..."
"their last name is actually 'Mountbatten-Windsor'..."

"The royal family's official name, or lack thereof, became a problem during World War I, when people began to mutter that 'Saxe-Coburg-Gotha' sounded far too German..."

King George V and his family needed a new, English-sounding name..."

"After considering every possible name..."
"from ''Plantagenet' to 'Tudor-Stuart' to simply 'England' ..."
"the king and his advisors chose the name 'Windsor'..."

"To this day, the British royal family is known as ...
the 'House of Windsor' ..."

"When Princess Elizabeth (the current queen) served as a subaltern in the Auxiliary Territorial Service during World War II, she was called 'Elizabeth Windsor' ..."

Then ...
"Elizabeth married Prince Philip of Greece, whose family name was 'Mountbatten' ..."
"and eventually she decreed that most of her descendants would be called 'Mountbatten-Windsor'..."

"... 'Princess Anne' used this name in 1973 when she married 'Captain Mark Phillips'..."

"However, according to statements made by the queen, it appears that 'Windsor' is still the official family name for any British royal who is styled 'Royal Highness'..."

"The queen's youngest son, 'Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex', has used the name 'Edward Windsor' professionally. His wife calls herself 'Sophie Wessex' ..."
- article taken from "answerbag.com"

- congratulations to prince william and kate!
http://youtu.be/KKe2maafFyc

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[> Re: an interesting story . . . -- Brittany, 12:12:57 05/02/11 Mon

My mom went to a British boarding school for her education, and she and her friends were around the same age as Prince Charles. They played this game with their apples where they would give the stem a twist and say a letter of the alphabet. So first twist is "a", second is "b", etc. The twist that pulls the stem off is the letter of the person you would marry. Well, my mom kept getting "R" repeatedly and her friends decided it was for "Rex" and that she would marry Prince Charles (Rex is Latin for "king"). I'm still not sure how they didn't know that wasn't really his last name or if they were playing around with the rules.

Anyway, many years later and after marrying an "H" instead, she brought her American children to show them England. She and I were having an argument for some time over the last name of the royal family. She insisted they were all either "Regina" or "Rex", but I was pretty sure they had a different surname. This was before the Internet and being able to look up stuff like that so easily. We were at the Tower of London and all the beefeaters were wearing the "ER" badge, so I decided to put an end to the argument once and for all. I went up to one of them and asked, "What is the Queen's last name?"

"It's Regina, right?" my mom insisted.

The beefeater gave us both a strange look (probably thinking "silly American tourists") and said, "No, it's Windsor."

My mom and I both went, "Ohhhhhhhhhhh!!!" and had a big "DUH!" moment, lol!

I'm still so surprised that she wouldn't know, because our family is so into the royal family.




Then I've got some more random trivia to add to yours, BC, if you don't mind?

Queen Victoria is the reason for the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in the last name since her husband was Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (a collection of German provinces). If she had kept her maiden name, it would have been "Guelph" (I hope I spelled that right . . . ). That's what the Hanovarian's (George I, II, III, IV, William IV, her dynasty) last name was. I think it is strange that the children would have taken on their father's last name when he was only the consort. Anyway, "Guelph" is still German, so I'm wondering if they would have had to change it anyway. Actually, when I heard about the name change, I thought it was from "Guelph" to "Windsor"!

And then even more random trivia . . . I love the movie "The Madness of King George" and have probably seen it way too many times. There is this one scene where they are going through the parish registers to find the documentation of a marriage, and you only see a brief glimpse of the page, but after my gazillionth viewing, I noticed that the name of the husband is listed as "George Guelph"!!! I was quite excited and I loved the movie even more to have added that little bit in there that the audience wasn't necessarily expected to notice :)


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