What is the family name of the royal family in england?

Question

What is the family name of the royal family in england?

Answer 1

Mountbatten-Windsor.

Answer 2

It's Windsor. They changed it from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha during World War 1, adopting the name of the castle, as the original sounded too German.

Prince Philip's surname is Mountbatten (itself an anglicisation of his original name Battenberg), so strictly speaking they are the Mountbatten-Windsors.

However princes Harry and William are known as Wales, because they're the sons of the Prince of Wales. Don't know why they didn't just use Windsor.

Answer 3

I thought windsor was the castle? Mhh, that's a pretty good question actually, more intelligent than most questions that get asked on here, I'll dig out some more info on that and come back to you, but then again, it may well be Windsor.

Answer 4

Windsor.

Answer 5

The Nags

Answer 6

Originally, Queen Elizabeth's maiden surname was "Wettin", which is the older branch of the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (German Royal 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.

The official royal surname that the descendant of The Queen Elizabeth II is "Mountbatten-Windsor." Mountbatten is also the English version of the German royal house "The Battenberg". Prince Philip is from the House of Batternberg, a branch from the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, rulers of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in Germany. In honour of Prince Philip, the heir to the British throne, Prince Charles will rule from the "House of Mountbatten-Windsor" as King.

Younger royal members like Prince William, Prince Harry, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, prefer to use their territorial titles, which is the royal family tradition. For example, Prince William was registered as "William Wales" in university, and Princess Beatrice was known as "Beatrice York" in college.

Answer 7

Charles sons dont use windsor because their fathers surname until he taked the throne is Wales as he is the Prince of wales

the Duke of Gloster while a Windsor would correctly style him self using the sur name Gloster

the title gives the surname