To: Cecily
The House of Windsor came into being in 1917, when the name was adopted as the British Royal Family's official name by a proclamation of King George V, replacing the historic name of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, its orginal German name. Britian at the time was fighting the Germans in WWI.
It remains the family name of the current Royal Family.
10 posted on
04/21/2006 12:40:50 PM PDT by
Angus MacGregor
(Wars are fought in the will...)
To: Angus MacGregor
Their bloodline is getting more British. Charles's heir William is half English, one quarter Scottish, and three quarters German. The same is true of all of the queen's grandchildren, since all her kids married Englishmen or women.
13 posted on
04/21/2006 12:50:54 PM PDT by
Cecily
To: Angus MacGregor
Didn't Queen Elizabeth change the name of her family to Mountbatten-Windsor at one time in honor of her husband Prince Philip?
Anyway, best wishes to Her Majesty (for a "German" monarch, her English accent is superb).
18 posted on
04/21/2006 1:11:01 PM PDT by
Ebenezer
(Strength and Honor!)
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