Only the Royal Family has the surname ''Windsor''?

Question

Only the Royal Family has the surname ''Windsor''?

Answer 1

I'm sure Barbara Windsor will be pleased to hear that.

Answer 2

Not likely.

Firstly, George V changed the surname from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha on the rise of anti-German feeling in WWI. He also ordered all members of the British Royal family to give up their German titles (German royals also gave up their British titles).

Secondly, titled royals do not have a surname they aer of the House of Windsor but it is not their surname, when the children of the Queen have given a surname (as required for Marriage) it's Mountbatten-Windsor.

I can name at least one actress of the top of my head who's surname is Windsor and she's most definitely NOT royalty  - Barbara Windsor (of "Carry on" films and EastEnders fame).

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Answer 3

You should have  looked in the phonebook before posting this.

Answer 4

do they !

wow my mrs is gonna be queen 1 day !

Answer 5

Nonsense.

First, the Royal Family's real name is Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.  King George V changed it in 1917, because they Brits were at war with the Germans and it sounded too German.

Second - no, there are a lot of other Windsors around

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Answer 6

The House of Windsor is the current Royal House of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and each of the other Commonwealth realms. The older part is a branch of the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha line of the House of Wettin.

By virtue of Queen Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert, son of Duke Ernst I of the small German duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, her descendants were members of the ducal family of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha with the house name of Wettin. Victoria's son Edward VII and his son George V reigned as members of this house. 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. On 17 July, 1917, a royal proclamation by George V provided that all agnatic descendants of Queen Victoria would be members of the House of Windsor with the personal surname of Windsor. The name Windsor has a long association with English royalty through the town of Windsor and Windsor Castle.

Answer 7

There may be other families with the surname of Windsor,but only the Royal Family is of The Royal House of Windsor,and can trace their lineage to the Royal Houses of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Schlesweig-Holstein-

Sonderburg-Glucksburg. It's not only the name,but a family's history and lineage that tells the entire story.