Is it true that future British queens regnant cannot take the name Victoria?

Question

I recall reading once that Queen Victoria stipulated in her will that she should be the only female monarch to use that name, but I have never been able to find a reliable source to confirm this.

Answer 1

I don't see how Queen Victoria could possibly have made any such condition, nor can I see why she would want to.  why would she object to a descendent having her name?

Answer 2

As the monarch can choose their own ruling name, I suppose there would some system in place to ensure that the name was suitable so that could be true.

Answer 3

I have never heard that one before.  It was usual for all female grand/great grandchildren to include in their list of names, that of their awesome Queen Empress's second name Victoria. One of Queen Victoria's grand-daughters as wife of the King of Spain was known as Queen Victoria, however She was Queen Consort.

Answer 4

Is this the same Queen Victoria who named her oldest daughter Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise (b. 1840) and who named two other daughters Helena Augusta Victoria (b. 1846) and Beatrice Mary Victoria (b. 1857)?  

Queen Victoria has at last count 1,034 descendants, including (in no particular order)

---Victoria Eugenia Alvarez de Toledo (1961)

---Victoria Marone (1941)

---Victoria of Sweden (1977)

---Victoria Ramsey  (1944)

---Victoria of Prussia (1952)

---Victoria Marina of Prussia (1917-1981)

---Victoria Prinzessin von Sanchsen-Coburg und Gotha (1963)

---Victoria Maria de Silva (1991)

---Viktoria Luise Prinzessin von Preussen (1982)

---Victoria of Hesse by Rhine (1863-1950)

---Viktoria-Luise of Prussia (1892-1980)

---Countess Victoria of Castell Rudenhausen (1936)

---Donata-Viktoria of Prussia (1952)

---Victoria Moretta of Prussia (1866-1929)

---Victoria Melita of Edinburgh (1876-1936)

Since Elizabeth II is the only Queen Regnant of the United Kingdom to reign since Victoria, any such prohibition would only have come up once since Queen Victoria's death.  Her Majesty, whose full name is Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, was named after her mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, her paternal great grandmother, and her paternal grandmother, respectively.  Upon the death of her father, when asked what she intended to be called, she answered, "Oh, my own name; what else."  When Elizabeth's daughter was born third in line to the throne, she was christened Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise in 1950.

BTW, if Queen Victoria's will is available on the Internet, I can't find it.

P. S. The second daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York and Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, Eugenie Victoria Helena (1990), is sixth in line for the British Throne.

Answer 5

Never heard of that, and it does not ring true, as it would be unenforcable.

Answer 6

I have not heard that either, usually it's common to use a historic family name. Look at Queen Elizabeth the 1st and the current Queen...the royal's love having those numbers after their names....William, Charles, Elizabeth, George, etc..

I would imagine that Victoria will be used again...in a hundred years or so..right now it's still too "fresh"..Victoria died what, 107 years ago? She had a daughter, Beatrice, which I beleive Fergie used for her daughter...

I also can't see them egotistical in that way, they would be more inclined to see it as an homage to their legacy to have a future royal with their name.

Answer 7

First I have heard of it.  A king Victor would be OK I presume.

Answer 8

Quite the opposite, the Royal family like most other famlies tend to keep the same names in their family as did the previous generations.

Answer 9

I never heard that, I believe she requested that all future eldest daughters born in to the Royal family would have Victoria as one of their names but the then Duke and Duchess of York decided against it for their eldest daughter (now The Queen).

Answer 10

that's not true. any future monarchs who wants to use the name victoria is free to do so, like the two queen elizabeths, they've just put I and II after their names, so it is possible to have a queen victoria II in future.

Answer 11

I know that she stipulated that no future King could use the name Albert, which is why George VI was called George (his full name was Albert Frederick Arthur George), but as for not using the name Victoria never heard of this one.