What is Queen Elizabeths surname?

Question

What is Queen Elizabeths surname?

Answer 1

balls

Answer 2

Windolene

Answer 3

Queen Elizabeth's surname is Windsor, the English sounding version of "Wettin", a branch of the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha line of the House of Wettin. 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.

Queen Elizabeth is the great-great granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. By virtue of Queen Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 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.

Note: In Council on 9 April 1952, after her accession, Queen Elizabeth II officially declared her “Will and Pleasure that I and My children shall be styled and known as the House and Family of Windsor, and that my descendants who marry and their descendants, shall bear the name of Windsor.

Answer 4

Windsor, but it was changed from Wettin or Sace-Coberg I believe.  I do know that it was a German name and it was changed when it was apparent the WWI was coming on.

Answer 5

The British Royal family is the House of Windsor, Windsor being their "original" surname (having changed it from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, which was rather too Germanic for comfort, during World War I).

However, some time after the death of Lord Louis Mountbatten, the Queen added his surname as well, so the official name is now "Mountbatten-Windsor".

Answer 6

Windsor

Answer 7

her last name is Windsor

but as a title royal she formally has no last name.

Answer 8

It's Windsor (like the Castle).  However, her Grandfather's real surname (and thus, would have been her's too) was Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.  However, Kaiser Wilhelm in Germany was Queen Victoria's nehpew, so therefore during World War I, in order to show they were more "British than German," (which by blood, means they were 100% German, but still head of the British Empire, they changed their name to "Windsor,") like the old Castle of Windsor.  So, during WWI, the King changed his last name to Windsor, starting the House of Windsor and its descendants.

The Queen's last name is Windsor, Prince Phillip however has the last name of Battenberg, which is German for "Mountbatten."  So, Prince Phillip and any of his children can decide to be Mountbattens instead of Windsor's.  The youngest son of the Queen and Prince Phillip is HRH Prince Edward of the House of Windsor.  However Charles and Anne both sign their signature's (at least on marriage and death paper's) as Mountbatten-Windsors (which is legal), but Prince Charles should only sign his as Windsor (since, if his name were any other, it would be a case for a new "House of . . . "

Answer 9

I believe it is "George"

Answer 10

Her surname is Windsor. After Queen Anne dies in 1714 the next line of Monarchs in England came from Germany, starting with George 1  in 1714 and continuing to the present day. In 1917, after tremendous pressure by the English people, who loathed having a Monarch with a German ancestry because the English were fighting Germany in WW1, King George V announced that the Royal Family had officially changed their surname to Windsor. From the reigns of George 1  through to the end of the reign of George 1V, a period of 116 years, the King of England could not speak a word of English.

Answer 11

windsor?

Answer 12

Windsor.

Answer 13

RICK JAMES *****

Answer 14

Titled royals don't really use surnames but Royal House names. Elizabeth's is The Royal House of Windsor.

Any untitled descendant of the Queen's who needs a surname may use Mountbatten-Windsor. Here's the official explanation from Buckingham Palace's site at http://www.royal.gov/uk/output/Page5657....

"People often ask whether members of the Royal Family have a surname, and, if so, what it is.

The situation of members of the Royal Family is more complex than for most people, as they can be known both by the name of the Royal house, and by a surname, which are not always the same.

Before 1917, members of the British Royal Family had no surname, but only the name of the house or dynasty to which they belonged.

Kings and princes were historically known by the names of the countries over which they and their families ruled. Kings and queens therefore signed themselves by their first names only, a tradition in the United Kingdom which has continued to the present day.

The names of dynasties tended to change when the line of succession was taken by a rival faction within the family (for example, Henry IV and the Lancastrians, Edward IV and the Yorkists, Henry VII and the Tudors), or when succession passed to a different family branch through females (for example, Henry II and the Angevins, James I and the Stuarts, George I and the Hanoverians).

Just as children can take their surnames from their father, so sovereigns normally take the name of their 'House' from their father. For this reason, Queen Victoria's eldest son Edward VII belonged to the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (the family name of his father Prince Albert). Edward VII's son George V became the second king of that dynasty when he succeeded to the throne in 1910.

In 1917, there was a radical change, when George V specifically adopted Windsor, not only as the name of the 'House' or dynasty, but also as the surname of his family. The family name was changed as a result of anti-German feeling during the First World War, and the name Windsor was adopted after the Castle of the same name.

At a meeting of the Privy Council on 17 July 1917, George V declared that 'all descendants in the male line of Queen Victoria, who are subjects of these realms, other than female descendants who marry or who have married, shall bear the name of Windsor'.      

            

The Royal Family name of Windsor was confirmed by The Queen after her accession in 1952. However, in 1960, The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh decided that they would like their own 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 George V.

It was therefore declared in the Privy Council that The Queen's descendants, other than those with the style of Royal Highness and the title of Prince/Princess, or female descendants who marry, would carry the name of Mountbatten-Windsor.

This reflected Prince Philip's surname. In 1947, when Prince Philip of Greece became naturalised, he assumed the name of Philip Mountbatten as a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy.

The effect of the declaration was that all The Queen's children, on occasions when they needed a surname, would have the surname Mountbatten-Windsor.

For the most part, members of the Royal Family who are entitled to the style and dignity of HRH Prince or Princess do not need a surname, but if at any time any of them do need a surname (such as upon marriage), that surname is Mountbatten-Windsor.

The surname Mountbatten-Windsor first appeared on an official document on 14 November 1973, in the marriage register at Westminster Abbey for the marriage of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips.

A proclamation on the Royal Family name by the reigning monarch is not statutory; unlike an Act of Parliament, it does not pass into the law of the land. Such a proclamation is not binding on succeeding reigning sovereigns, nor does it set a precedent which must be followed by reigning sovereigns who come after.

Unless The Prince of Wales chooses to alter the present decisions when he becomes king, he will continue to be of the House of Windsor and his grandchildren will use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor."

Most of the royals use their royal title names:

Charles,Prince of Wales and family use Wales;Andrew,Duke of York's family uses York;Edward,Earl of Wessex and family use Wessex.Anne,the Princess Royal's ex-husband,Mark Philips,didn't want a title,so their children use his surname of Phillips. Anne,who remarried is Anne,the Princess Royal,Mrs. Timothy Laurence.

Incidentally,Windsor was first Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.Mountbatten was first Schlessweig-Holstein-

Sonderburg-Glucksburg.

Both names were changed during World War I,right after London was bombed by 24 GOTHA warplanes.Anti-German sentiment was high;even the royal family didn't much care for the Germans,and the names were changed!

Answer 15

Windsor windsor windsor

Answer 16

BEC is basically right, legally, titled royals in the United Kingdom do not have surnames. Everyone else who actually *gave* a surname is wrong and doesn't know enough about the situation to realize that not everyone on the planet has a surname.

Answer 17

It either Windsor or Tudor, but if I were betting money on it, I go with Windsor.