Naming the Monarch

[stevie_r]

Birth name of William & Harry is Mountbatten-Windsor, William and Harry are both known as Wales for their military rank and the Wee one they chose to call Cambridge though the birth certificate may also say Mountbatten-Windsor its not likely we'll ever actually know..

It was the last King George, the Queens father that changed the families surname to Windsor after Windsor castle so as during the Wars to distance the Royals from their German cousins and origins as at that time their name was Saxe-Coburg a very German line of Royalty and Kaisers. Then when Queenie married Prince Phil she added his surname Mountbatten to their own name of Windsor to make sure the Royal name continued in some way rather than disappearing.

Plus in all honesty the wee-uns surname as is Chuckys and Wills surname is an irrelevance so are their first names because once they ascend the throne they have the right to change it to whatever they so wish. So who knows what the Royals could be called in a few years time..

Here endeth the lesson! :thup:

Not quite, it was George V

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.

 

[Fader]

Well i wasn't far out so I'm happy enough.

Still what's in a name.... I believe a famous Bill wrote a line about that.