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Posted: 4/30/2011 4:27:50 AM EDT
What's the last name of the British Royal Family?
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Wales Yea, I know, and I couldn't edit my post quicker than the first asshat. |
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As a member of the royal family entitled to be called "His Royal Highness", William formally has no surname, but when one is used, it is Mountbatten-Windsor (or colloquially his territorial designation of Cambridge; prior to his marriage, his father's, Wales); according to letters patent of February 1960, his House and Family Name is Windsor.
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Well, Prince Charles' full title is:
His Royal Highness The Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Royal Knight Companion of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of Bath, Member of the Order of Merit, Knight of the Order of Australia, Companion of the Queen's Service Order, Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty |
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Until 1917 it was Gotha-Saxe-Coberg, then, because of the war, the King decreed the following:
Now, therefore, We, out of Our Royal Will and Authority, do hereby declare and announce that as from the date of this Our Royal Proclamation Our House and Family shall be styled and known as the House and Family of Windsor, and that all the descendants in the male line of Our said Grandmother Queen Victoria who are subjects of these Realms, other than female descendants who may marry or may have married, shall bear the said Name of Windsor...[1] |
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You know, they do pretty much all have their own Wikipedia page.
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The British royal family is Windsor - Queen Elizabeth is actually Elizabeth Windsor, although as the Queen of England, it's not really used.
The children of Queen Elizabeth are Mountbatten-Windsor. |
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Well, Prince Charles' full title is: His Royal Highness The Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Royal Knight Companion of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of Bath, Member of the Order of Merit, Knight of the Order of Australia, Companion of the Queen's Service Order, Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty I am gona asume whe he is siging papers and they ask for his full name he tells em to fuck off, cause damn.....just damn. |
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The British royal family is Windsor - Queen Elizabeth is actually Elizabeth Windsor, although as the Queen of England, it's not really used. The children of Queen Elizabeth are Mountbatten-Windsor. Lord Mountbatten used to be Battenberg until he too ceased being German in 1917. |
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Well, Prince Charles' full title is: His Royal Highness The Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Royal Knight Companion of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of Bath, Member of the Order of Merit, Knight of the Order of Australia, Companion of the Queen's Service Order, Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty That is ridiculous. I dont even care for those womens hyphenated last names we see over on this side of the pond. |
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You said, Royal Family, right? Royal is their last name. |
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The battle of Yorktown and New Orleans ended my interest in knowing that bit of trivia.
"In 1814 we took a little trip, along with General Jackson down the mighty Mississip ...." |
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The British royal family is Windsor - Queen Elizabeth is actually Elizabeth Windsor, although as the Queen of England, it's not really used. The children of Queen Elizabeth are Mountbatten-Windsor. Lord Mountbatten used to be Battenberg until he too ceased being German in 1917. Lord Mountbatten's Father was the one that changed it. He was a big wig in the Admiralty during WW1. He changed the name to quell loyalty to England rumors and to sound more British. I believe The Mountbattens were cousins to Wilhelm of Germany as was Elizabeth or Victoria.......IIRC |
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Well, Prince Charles' full title is: His Royal Highness The Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Royal Knight Companion of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of Bath, Member of the Order of Merit, Knight of the Order of Australia, Companion of the Queen's Service Order, Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty I guess he wont be signing and checks with that....... |
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The battle of Yorktown and New Orleans ended my interest in knowing that bit of trivia. "In 1814 we took a little trip, along with General Jackson down the mighty Mississip ...." Colonel Jackson, not General Jackson. "We took a little bacon and we took a little beans..." |
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The battle of Yorktown and New Orleans ended my interest in knowing that bit of trivia. "In 1814 we took a little trip, along with General Jackson down the mighty Mississip ...." Colonel Jackson, not General Jackson. "We took a little bacon and we took a little beans..." I can play this game... We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin. There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago. We fired once more and they began to runnin' on Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. |
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Quoted: Quoted: The battle of Yorktown and New Orleans ended my interest in knowing that bit of trivia. "In 1814 we took a little trip, along with General Jackson down the mighty Mississip ...." Colonel Jackson, not General Jackson. "We took a little bacon and we took a little beans..." and we met the bloody british near the town of new orleans. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: The British royal family is Windsor - Queen Elizabeth is actually Elizabeth Windsor, although as the Queen of England, it's not really used. The children of Queen Elizabeth are Mountbatten-Windsor. Lord Mountbatten used to be Battenberg until he too ceased being German in 1917. Lord Mountbatten's Father was the one that changed it. He was a big wig in the Admiralty during WW1. He changed the name to quell loyalty to England rumors and to sound more British. I believe The Mountbattens were cousins to Wilhelm of Germany as was Elizabeth or Victoria.......IIRC Sachs-Coburg and Gotha before Windsor. Yep, you guessed it...Eurpoean banking families. Didn't we fight the Revolutionary War so we wouldn't have to hear from the inbred royalty all-fuckin'-day??? The media is fawning over this as much as they did Obama. Think about that. If it's mainline and they want you to love it, odds are it's poison. |
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Most of the European Royal Families were related in one way or another Tzar Nicholas was Wilhelms uncle or Cousin or some shit.
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It's a good thing the Queen didn't take her husband's family name, he was born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark and his family name at birth was Slesvig-Holsten-Sønderborg-Lyksborg (Danish) and/or Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (German).
After WW2 and before getting engaged to (then) Princess Elizabeth he renounced his foreign titles and adopted the surname Mountbatten (from his maternal grandmother). It is interesting how effectively Queen Victoria got her children married into most of the European Royal Families - Philip was a prince of both Denmark and Greece and his maternal grandmother Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria (she married a German prince who served in the British Royal Navy and was First Sea Lord of the navy before WW1). Princess Victoria's sister married Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and was murdered by the bolsheviks in 1918. Kaiser Wilhelm II who lead Germany into WW1 was a grandson of Queen Victoria and therefore a cousin of the British King. Philip is the the grandson of King George I of Greece, great grandson of King Christian IX of Denmark, the great great grandson of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, and the great great great grandson of King Frederik Wilhelm III of Prussia. |
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"We fired and fired our cannon
till the barrel melted down and then we grabbed a 'gator and we fired another round we filled his mouth with cannon balls and powdered his behind and when we touched the powder off the 'gator lost his mind...." loved that song when I was a kid! |
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It's a good thing the Queen didn't take her husband's family name, he was born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark and his family name at birth was Slesvig-Holsten-Sønderborg-Lyksborg (Danish) and/or Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (German). After WW2 and before getting engaged to (then) Princess Elizabeth he renounced his foreign titles and adopted the surname Mountbatten (from his maternal grandmother). It is interesting how effectively Queen Victoria got her children married into most of the European Royal Families - Philip was a prince of both Denmark and Greece and his maternal grandmother Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria (she married a German prince who served in the British Royal Navy and was First Sea Lord of the navy before WW1). Princess Victoria's sister married Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and was murdered by the bolsheviks in 1918. Kaiser Wilhelm II who lead Germany into WW1 was a grandson of Queen Victoria and therefore a cousin of the British King. Philip is the the grandson of King George I of Greece, great grandson of King Christian IX of Denmark, the great great grandson of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, and the great great great grandson of King Frederik Wilhelm III of Prussia. Thanks for posting that, I was running off memory from a book I read years ago!! |
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I'm preety sure all of you are wrong. It's Sanchez yep. I'm going with this. |
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"We fired and fired our cannon till the barrel melted down and then we grabbed a 'gator and we fired another round we filled his mouth with cannon balls and powdered his behind and when we touched the powder off the 'gator lost his mind...." loved that song when I was a kid! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRK3DNoa_Q Warning - this song will get stuck in your head! |
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"We fired and fired our cannon till the barrel melted down and then we grabbed a 'gator and we fired another round we filled his mouth with cannon balls and powdered his behind and when we touched the powder off the 'gator lost his mind...." loved that song when I was a kid! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRK3DNoa_Q Warning - this song will get stuck in your head! Bastard. |
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As I understand it, they don't have a surname. They do have a 'house' name which is the closest thing to it. And that name is Windsor, I believe.
Was from huge German royalty but changed their names during WWI when it wasn't exactly stylish to have a German name in England. |
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"We fired and fired our cannon till the barrel melted down and then we grabbed a 'gator and we fired another round we filled his mouth with cannon balls and powdered his behind and when we touched the powder off the 'gator lost his mind...." loved that song when I was a kid! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRK3DNoa_Q Warning - this song will get stuck in your head! Bastard. Eh, plenty of worse songs to have stuck in your head |
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Quoted: Queen Victoria's grand-son, who they called "Willy", became Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. Quoted: Quoted: The British royal family is Windsor - Queen Elizabeth is actually Elizabeth Windsor, although as the Queen of England, it's not really used. The children of Queen Elizabeth are Mountbatten-Windsor. Lord Mountbatten used to be Battenberg until he too ceased being German in 1917. Lord Mountbatten's Father was the one that changed it. He was a big wig in the Admiralty during WW1. He changed the name to quell loyalty to England rumors and to sound more British. I believe The Mountbattens were cousins to Wilhelm of Germany as was Elizabeth or Victoria.......IIRC |
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It's a good thing the Queen didn't take her husband's family name, he was born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark and his family name at birth was Slesvig-Holsten-Sønderborg-Lyksborg (Danish) and/or Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (German). After WW2 and before getting engaged to (then) Princess Elizabeth he renounced his foreign titles and adopted the surname Mountbatten (from his maternal grandmother). It is interesting how effectively Queen Victoria got her children married into most of the European Royal Families - Philip was a prince of both Denmark and Greece and his maternal grandmother Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria (she married a German prince who served in the British Royal Navy and was First Sea Lord of the navy before WW1). Princess Victoria's sister married Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and was murdered by the bolsheviks in 1918. Kaiser Wilhelm II who lead Germany into WW1 was a grandson of Queen Victoria and therefore a cousin of the British King. Philip is the the grandson of King George I of Greece, great grandson of King Christian IX of Denmark, the great great grandson of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, and the great great great grandson of King Frederik Wilhelm III of Prussia. Are they all originally from Arkansas? |
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I'm preety sure all of you are wrong. It's Sanchez In my best James Bond voice: "Sanchez, Dirty Sanchez." |
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Quoted: Well, Prince Charles' full title is: His Royal Highness The Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Royal Knight Companion of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of Bath, Member of the Order of Merit, Knight of the Order of Australia, Companion of the Queen's Service Order, Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty I wonder how old he was when he was finally able to memorize all of that. Let alone, spell it. |
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The British royal family is Windsor - Queen Elizabeth is actually Elizabeth Windsor, although as the Queen of England, it's not really used. The children of Queen Elizabeth are Mountbatten-Windsor. Lord Mountbatten used to be Battenberg until he too ceased being German in 1917. Lord Mountbatten's Father was the one that changed it. He was a big wig in the Admiralty during WW1. He changed the name to quell loyalty to England rumors and to sound more British. I believe The Mountbattens were cousins to Wilhelm of Germany as was Elizabeth or Victoria.......IIRC The only reason his loyalty was even questioned and the names of the royals and nobles became an issue is because by the time the war started British nationalism had run rampant to the point that anything German was being renamed or destroyed. Nationalism does tend to be an ugly affair and unfortunately it can really sweep out of controul and take anyone who does not conform with it. That was the reality these people faced. There was nothing rational about the public mindset so those with German names did what they felt they had to do to prevent any sort of reprisals, suspicions, and the like. |
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The British royal family is Windsor - Queen Elizabeth is actually Elizabeth Windsor, although as the Queen of England, it's not really used. The children of Queen Elizabeth are Mountbatten-Windsor. Lord Mountbatten used to be Battenberg until he too ceased being German in 1917. Lord Mountbatten's Father was the one that changed it. He was a big wig in the Admiralty during WW1. He changed the name to quell loyalty to England rumors and to sound more British. I believe The Mountbattens were cousins to Wilhelm of Germany as was Elizabeth or Victoria.......IIRC Sachs-Coburg and Gotha before Windsor. Yep, you guessed it...Eurpoean banking families. Didn't we fight the Revolutionary War so we wouldn't have to hear from the inbred royalty all-fuckin'-day??? The media is fawning over this as much as they did Obama. Think about that. If it's mainline and they want you to love it, odds are it's poison. No, that's not why we became independent. |
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As I understand it, they don't have a surname. They do have a 'house' name which is the closest thing to it. And that name is Windsor, I believe. Was from huge German royalty but changed their names during WWI when it wasn't exactly stylish to have a German name in England. It was probably due to the fact that English peoples and well all the other poor bastards in Europe were bleeding themselves dry over what was a familial dispute over land and power between the royals cousins. Simplistic, but to the families of the dead it probably sounded worse. |
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Well, Prince Charles' full title is: His Royal Highness The Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Royal Knight Companion of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of Bath, Member of the Order of Merit, Knight of the Order of Australia, Companion of the Queen's Service Order, Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty I am gona asume whe he is siging papers and they ask for his full name he tells em to fuck off, cause damn.....just damn. Can you imagine the poor kid learning to print his name in Kindergarten? |
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Quoted: Quoted: The battle of Yorktown and New Orleans ended my interest in knowing that bit of trivia. "In 1814 we took a little trip, along with General Jackson down the mighty Mississip ...." Colonel Jackson, not General Jackson. "We took a little bacon and we took a little beans..." A++ |
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Well, Prince Charles' full title is: His Royal Highness The Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Royal Knight Companion of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of Bath, Member of the Order of Merit, Knight of the Order of Australia, Companion of the Queen's Service Order, Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty I wonder how old he was when he was finally able to memorize all of that. Let alone, spell it. It is tatooted on the palm of his left hand. Bonny Prince Charles isn't exactly the sharpest sword in the scabbard. |
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The British royal family is Windsor - Queen Elizabeth is actually Elizabeth Windsor, although as the Queen of England, it's not really used. The children of Queen Elizabeth are Mountbatten-Windsor. Lord Mountbatten used to be Battenberg until he too ceased being German in 1917. Lord Mountbatten's Father was the one that changed it. He was a big wig in the Admiralty during WW1. He changed the name to quell loyalty to England rumors and to sound more British. I believe The Mountbattens were cousins to Wilhelm of Germany as was Elizabeth or Victoria.......IIRC Sachs-Coburg and Gotha before Windsor. Yep, you guessed it...Eurpoean banking families. Didn't we fight the Revolutionary War so we wouldn't have to hear from the inbred royalty all-fuckin'-day??? The media is fawning over this as much as they did Obama. Think about that. If it's mainline and they want you to love it, odds are it's poison. |
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