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Is it an offence for someone anti monarchy to call the family at Buck house 'the Battenbergs'?

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Is it an offence for someone anti monarchy to call the family at Buck house 'the Battenbergs'?

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  1. Call them what you like - but you could end up with your head on a spike at the Tower of London!


  2. Battenberg is the royal house of Windsor German forename. It got anglicized to Mountbatten after the wars with Germany in the early 20thC.  When Elizabeth became Queen her last name became Windsor.

    Her husband Phillip became Phillip Mountbatten- Windsor.

  3. No, but Neither is it accurate!

  4. No

  5. I think you are thinking of "Mountbatten"

    Battenberg is a cake. yum

  6. It's not offensive as such, it's just inaccurate, they are the House of Windsor and changed their name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Battenburg was Prince Philip's original surname but he changed it to Mountbatten when he became a naturalised British citizen.

  7. No but it is inaccurate.

    The family there resident is either the Windsors, by the lady-of-the-house's decision or by royal tradition whereby a family join their father's family, the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg...

    Battenberg is German and translates to Mountbatten in English but it was Philip's mother's family name.   His father, like the remaining members of the Greek and Danish royal houses, was a Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg...

  8. It wouldn't be correct since it is the Winsdors,the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha's reign. The Mountbattens, also known as Battenbergs were originally the Schlesweig-Holstein-

    Sonderburg-Glucksburgs.

    Even anti-royalists should get their facts straight!

  9. Of course not.  Anyone can call the royal family anything they like - it's call freedom of speech.

  10. no. you can call them anything you want, unless your words incite hatred or violence or something. call them the battenbergs if you wish

  11. No....we can call them whatever we like

  12. I would believe so since the current British royal family are of German descent, and they tried to avoid being associated with the German during World War I.  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.

    The Battenberg family was a cadet branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, rulers of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in Germany. The name Battenberg was last used by Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg, who died childless in 1924. Most members of the family, residing in the United Kingdom, had renounced their German titles in 1917, during World War I, and changed their name to Mountbatten, an anglicised version of Battenberg. The House of Windsor is also an anglicised version of "House of Wettin." The House of Wettin was a dynasty of German counts, dukes, prince-electors and kings that ruled the area of today's German state of Saxony.

  13. Yes it is highly offensive to confections

    I love Battenberg slices .

  14. It's not an offence as in "a crime", but I guess "the family at Buck house" might take offence - not only because it would be quite impolite, but also because it is not their name !

  15. It's not offensive - just inaccurate.

  16. If it is, I'd be happy to call them the Battenbergs and face the consequences.
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