What is the Queen of Englands last name?

Question

What is the Queen of Englands last name?

Answer 1

Windor. Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert was from Germany.  His father was Duke Ernest of Coburg.

Answer 2

Titled royals do not use surnames, but royal house names. The Queen is from The Royal House of Windsor. Any untitled descendant of the Queen may use Mountbatten-Windsor as their surname. But most titled royals use their titles as surnames: Charles,Prince of Wales and family use WALES; Andrew,Duke of York and family use YORK,Edward,Earl of Wessex and family use WESSEX. Anne's children use their father's name because the parents didn't want the children to be titled.

Windosr was originally Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.It was changed because of anti-German sentiment caused by World War I. Mountbatten was originally The Royal House of Schlessweig-Holstein-

Sonderburg-

Glucksburg (A Danish royal house).

It's first change was to the shorter Battenberg,then to the more anglicized Mountbatten.

Here is the official explanation from Buckingham Palace at http://www.royal.gov/uk :

"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."

Answer 3

The personal 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.

Answer 4

The last name is officially Windsor.  However, there's a sort of an interesting story behind that.  Her family had a German last name (which I can't remember at the moment) until World War I.  At that time, anti-German feeling was so high in England that the royal family thought it best to change their name.  So "Windsor" is a completely invented name.

Answer 5

She is of the house of Windsor but some time after her marriage she decreed that all of her descendents would carry the surname Mountbatten-Windsor as her husband's last name is Mountbatten.  About a century ago the House of Windsor's last name was Saxe-Coburg-Gotha but they changed it to an English name because of anti-German sentiment in England around the time of the First World War.

Answer 6

She is of the House of Windsor.

Windsor.

Answer 7

I suggest you read the resolved questions. I think this question is asked about once every three days

Answer 8

Funny how a good answer gets downvoted, probably by the Copy/Paste Queen.

There is no queen of England. You mean the Queen of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II.

Technically, her last name is "Mary" because she has no names following that, but of course you are asking what her surname is. The answer is that she does not have one. The Queen's full name is Elizabeth Alexandra Mary.

The Queen is of the house and family (dynasty) of Windsor, but that is not her surname. Windsor is only a surname for the male-line descendants of the British sovereign who are subjects of that realm who are not princes or princesses of the United Kingdom. The sovereign herself was originally a princess so she had no surname to begin with and she did not gain one on becoming queen.

Some people will cite marriage registrations, etc, as evidence of surnames but this is completely false. The Queen's son, for instance, the Prince of Wales was listed as "The Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, The Prince of Wales" on his marriage registration. "Helpful" clerks erroneously attributed the "surname" Mountbatten-Windsor to the Princess Anne when she was married, although she does now indeed have the surname Phillips now by marriage.

Answer 9

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