What is the royal family of Britain's last name?

Question

What is the royal family of Britain's last name?

Answer 1

It is Windsor for sure.

Answer 2

Wow that is a really good question. I think it's Windsor or something like that.

Answer 3

it is windsor. it is not an original last name, they adopted it in world war one, there last name was supposedly to german sounding. it is the "house of windsor"

Answer 4

The only royal family I care about is the Tudors!

Answer 5

winsdor

i'm positive

Answer 6

Windsor.

Answer 7

Windsor

(I think anyway....)

Answer 8

Windsor - House of Windsor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Wi...

Answer 9

Mountbatten~Windsor

Answer 10

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 11

I thought it was Stewart.

Answer 12

Weirdaccentfamily

Answer 13

Windsor

Answer 14

Cowel?

Answer 15

British royal family changed their last name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor in 1917.

Answer 16

EVERYONE who said Windsor is dead wrong.

The surname Windsor is only for male-line descendants of the Royal Family who do not bear the titular dignity of prince or princess. It has, however, been erroneously applied to members of the Royal Family in the past, even by "helpful" civil servants filling it in on marriage licenses and the like.

The Royal Family is the House and Family of Windsor, which means that is the name of the dynasty but it does not make it a surname.

*If* Windsor was the Royal Family's surname, which it is not, why do William and Harry use "Wales" when they apparently "need" a surname and why do Beatrice and Eugenie use "York" in school? Simple. They don't have real surnames, even Windsor.

Answer 17

Windsor

;)

Answer 18

It is Windsor.  Didn't you know that?  Everybody knows that, 'K.

Answer 19

The royal family has little use for last names - after all, everyone knows who they are. Princess Diana did not take back her maiden name, Spencer, after her divorce; she continued to be known simply as "Diana." The queen signs official documents "Elizabeth R." The R stands for Regina, which means "queen." (Regina is not one of her given names; she was baptised Elizabeth Alexandra Mary.)

But the royal family does have a last name, and they do use it from time to time. This wasn't always the case. Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, was a member of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, so her descendants were part of that dynasty. This, however, was not the family's last name. They didn't have one, because they didn't need one, so they didn't worry about it. Experts later worried about it for them and decided their name was probably "Witten" (or maybe even Wipper).

The royal family's official name, or lack thereof, became a problem during World War I, when people began to mutter that Saxe-Coburg-Gotha sounded far too German. King George V and his family needed a new, English-sounding name. After considering every possible name, from Plantagenet to Tudor-Stuart to simply England, the king and his advisors chose the name Windsor.

To this day, the British royal family is known as the House of Windsor. When Princess Elizabeth (the current queen) served as a subaltern in the Auxiliary Territorial Service during World War II, she was called "Elizabeth Windsor." Elizabeth married Prince Philip of Greece, whose family name was Mountbatten, and eventually she decreed that most of her descendants would be called Mountbatten-Windsor. Princess Anne used this name in 1973 when she married Captain Mark Phillips.

However, according to statements made by the queen, it appears that Windsor is still the official family name for any British royal who is styled "Royal Highness." The queen's youngest son, Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, has used the name Edward Windsor professionally. His wife, the Countess of Wessex, has been known professionally as Sophie Wessex

Answer 20

windsor. but william and harry sometimes use Wales as a last name.

Answer 21

Titled royals usually do not use surnames.They use ROYAL HOUSE Names or title names.The Queen is from The Royal House of Windsor.Philip is from The Royal House of Schlesweig-Holstein-

Sonderburg-Glucksburg.His name

was changed to Battenberg,then Mountbatten during World War I because of anti-German sentiment(Philip is Danish and part German).

The name Windsor was changed also from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

Titled royals can say that they are from The Royal House of Windsor,but they mostly use their TITLE names.Charles,Prince of Wales' family is identified by Wales;Andrew,Duke of York's family uses York,and Edward,Earl of Wessex's family uses Wessex or Mountbatten-Windsor.

Mountbatten-Windsor is the name that non-royal descendants of the Queen are using;Prince Edward's children aren't royals so that is why they use Mountbatten-Windsor while Edward and Sophie use Wessex.

Here is the official explanation from Buckinghman Palace:

http://www.royal.gov/uk/output/Page5657....

"eople 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 22

the windsors

Answer 23

Windsor, I believe.