Does anyone know what the royal families last name is?

Question

I've always heard people say, "Prince Charles, Prince William, Prince Harry..." and they usually say, "of Wales" but I've never heard their last name. Does anyone know what it is?

Answer 1

Titled Royals don't have a surnames as such, the name given is their title or their parent's title - both William and Harry are known as Cornet Wales in their army careers.

However, the Queen is a member of the House of Windsor. Prince Charles and Princess Anne both used the Surname  of Mountbatten-WIndsor on their Marriage certificates. Charles has hinted that the House will become the House of Mountbatten-Windsor upon his ascension to the throne.

Answer 2

Did you know this question has been asked before.... a couple of times actually

Answer 3

Yes, the official surname that the descendants of Elizabeth II is "Mountbatten-Windsor." The Queen's real surname was "Wettin", a branch of the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha line of 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 for English-sounding versions. Therefore, The Queen's surname became "Windsor", and The House of Windsor is the current Royal House of the United Kingdom and each of the other Commonwealth realms.

Mountbatten is the surname of Prince Philip, which is also an English version of the German name Battenberg. Therefore, in honour of him, his children may choose to use the surname "Mountbatten-Windsor", and Prince Charles may want to establish the first "House of Mountbatten-Windsor" as the official ruling house when he is King. However, the younger generation like Prince William and Princess Beatrice prefer to use their territorial title in place of their surname. For example, Prince William was registered as William Wales in college, and Princess Beatrice was registered as Beatrice York in college.

The following people have made use of, in current practice, or have made use of, the surname Mountbatten-Windsor. They are listed in the order of succession to the Crown.

- Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

- Prince William of Wales

- Prince Henry of Wales

- Prince Andrew, Duke of York

- Princess Beatrice of York

- Princess Eugenie of York

- Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and his wife, Sophie, Countess of Wessex

- Lady Louise Windsor (simply styled with the name Windsor)

- James Windsor, Viscount Severn (styled Viscount Severn)

- Princess Anne, Princess Royal (until her marriage with Mark Phillips in 1973 (divorced 1992) when she assumed his surname; her surname has subsequently changed again on the occasion of her marriage with Timothy Laurence in 1992)

For more info visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountbatten...

Answer 4

House of Windsor.

Answer 5

windsor

Answer 6

The British royal family changed their last name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor in 1917. The reason? World War One broke out in 1914 and anti-German sentiment was its height in 1917. In protest, King George V renounced all the German titles belonging to him and his family and adopted the name of his castle, Windsor.

The royal family name of Windsor was confirmed by Queen Elizabeth II after her accession in 1952 as follows: "The Queen today declared in Council her will and pleasure that she and her children shall be styled and known as the House and Family of Windsor, and that her descendants, other than female descendants who marry and their descendants, shall bear the name of Windsor."

In 1960 the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh decided they wanted their 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 King George V. They officially stated on 8 February 1960 that all The Queen's descendants who did not bear the "style, title or attribute of HRH, and the titular dignity of Prince or Princess" shall bear the name of Mountbatten-Windsor.

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Answer 7

Windsor.  The House of Windsor which is from Queen Elizabeth's.  Prince Phillip's last name is Montbatten.  However, since King George had two daughters and he was the king of England, the grandkids take the mother's name rather than the dads.

The last name Windsor has been used by female impersonators and, supposedly, Elton John in a alternate persona.

Answer 8

Its Windsor.

Although technically there name should be Saxe-Coburg-Gotha but they changed it to Windsor to remove any link to themselves and Germany as the 1st world war broke out ( originally they are from Germany you see) its been Wndsor ever since

Answer 9

It's Windsor

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Answer 11

The royal family's last name is Mountbatten-Windsor.

Their original surname is Saxe-Coburg-Gotha but the anti-German feeling in WWI caused King George V to change it to Windsor, also the name of the castle the Queen resides in, which is near Eton College where both young Princes attended.

Mountbatten is the surname of Prince Philip, which is an anglicised version of the original German name Battenburg.

Upon marrying Elizabeth II, Prince Philip was created Duke of Edingburgh, and his surname Mountbatten combined with Windsor, making the royal family name double-barrelled.