What is the royal name of the current monarchy of England? It was changed during WWI. Why?

Question

What is the royal name of the current monarchy of England? It was changed during WWI. Why?

Answer 1

We were fighting the monarch's cousins!

The royal name at the moment is the House of Windsor!

The only British monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was King Edward VII, who reigned for nine years at the beginning of the modern age in the early years of the twentieth century.

King George V replaced the German-sounding title with that of Windsor during the First World War. The name Saxe-Coburg-Gotha survived in other European monarchies, including the current Belgian Royal Family and the former monarchies of Portugal and Bulgaria.

Answer 2

Windsor.

Answer 3

The House of Windsor is the current Royal House of the United Kingdom 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.

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.