Does anyone know apart from Windsor, what surname did the British Royal use?

Question

I have found death record entries for The Queen Mother and the birth entries for the Queen and all of her grandchildren. I cannot find the death entries for her father, grandmother (Queen Mary) for example. All the entries I have found were under Mountbatten-Windsor or Windsor.

Answer 1

Before it was Windsor it was Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Philip's Royal House name was

Schlesweig-Holstein-Sonderberg-

Glucksburg.

Answer 2

Quite right about the change from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor - did you know that the Battenbergs also changed their name to Mountbatten at the same time and for the same reason?

Not that this was exclusive to the Royals - a relative of JRR Tolkien also changed his name to Tolkin during WWI, because the name was of German origin.

Answer 3

yes,Boolaros is right and he gets a tump up from me.

They are coming from The Saxen-Coburg-(The Germans).

Even in the Royal crest is"Ich dien" means I serve in German.

Answer 4

Saxe-Coburg

If I had given an INcorrect answer would it have been given a thumbs up?

How strange!

Answer 5

it doesn't really matter- they don't need last names- kinda like madonna

Answer 6

Due to the outbreak of WWI, in 1917 George V changed their name to Windsor from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.  However, prior to that there were other names such as Hanover and  Stuart.

Answer 7

"Saxe-Coburg and Gotha" was the Royal House name of the British Royal Family from the accession of Edward VII in 1901 until changed to "Windsor" by King George V in 1917 because a German name was deemed unpatriotic during World War I.

Queen Victoria's surname was "Wettin".

George V changed both "Wettin" and "Saxe-Coburg and Gotha" to "Windsor" in 1917. However, an Order-in-Council in 1960 again separated the Royal House name and the personal family surname of the monarch and her family. It decreed that while the Royal House name would remain Windsor, the descendants of Queen Elizabeth II and of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh would use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor.

Some of the younger members of the Royal Family use other names as their surnames when taking part in "normal" activities. Both Princes William & Harry have used "Wales" as their surname and Princes Beatrice & Eugenie have used "York" as theirs (referring to their father, Prince Andrew, who is titled Duke of York).

Generally, the Royal Family has never had a use for surnames. Historically, they were considered too common.

Prince Charles signed his wedding certificate as "Charles, Prince of Wales" and the Queen always signs her name "Elizabeth R", where "R" refers to the Latin word for "Queen" - Regina.

Answer 8

Is it Regina? hence ER??

Answer 9

During World War I, the family officially dropped the name of their German predecessors in the Hanoverian line.

Answer 10

The Queen Mothers Maiden name was Bowes-Lyon.