What was Queen Victoria's last name?

Question

She was the last British monarch of the House of Hannover, but was her last name Hanover?

Answer 1

Queen Victoria had no last name. She was of the House of Hanover, but the monarchs had not had any reason for a last name for centuries. Prince Albert (of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) commissioned an enquiry by the British & German Colleges of Heralds (or equivalent), and they eventually came up with a name for him of Wettin. Queen Victoria adopted this name by marriage and her children are listed on official records that require a surname as Wettin.

King Edward VII retained the surname but was of the house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, as was his son George V until he changed it in 1917 to Windsor because of anti-German sentiment among the British people.

Prince Philip is of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg although his surname is Mountbatten (formerly Battenburg), but the monarch's House takes precedence.

Answer 2

Emerald - what else could it have been? Of course, it was a closely guarded secret.

Answer 3

Not that Alexandrina Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland  and Empress of India, needed a last name, but she was the last monarch of the House of Hanover.  Since she married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, her descendants up until 1919 were part of the House of Saxe-Coburg Gotha.   Rumors of an affair with a solicitous Scots' manservant, John Brown, earned her the nickname, "Mrs. Brown".

Answer 4

her last name was greedy, like the present mob.

Answer 5

Victoria was her last name!

"Princess Alexandrina Victoria was born on May 24, 1819 to the Duke and Duchess of Kent. Victoria as she was called was the granddaughter of King George III."

Answer 6

As she belonged to the House of Hannover, that makes her last name Hannover, as the Royal family tend to use the name of their dynasty a stheir last name when they require to use one. Queen Victoria would never have signed her name Victoria Hannover though, it would be Victoria R (R satands for Regina which is the latin for Queen). She was married to Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha so it could be argued that her surname was Saxe-Coburg-Gotha from the time of her marriage to Prince Albert, royalty so seldom use surnames that it never really feautured. The reason that they do not use surnames is that they are regarded as being of the country they rule, Victoria of Great Britain, it is a special status awarded to most sovereigns.

Answer 7

The British royal family changed their last name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor in 1917. The reason? World War One broke out in 1914 and anit-German sentiment was at its height in 1917. In protest, King George V renounced all the German titles belonging to him and his family and adopted the name of his castle, Windsor.

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http://www.samsloan.com/secret.htm

http://www.heraldica.org/faqs/britfaq.ht...

Answer 8

Sax-Coburg Goetha

Answer 9

Insofar as she had a "last name", it was Hanover.