Mountbatten-Windsor
Mountbatten-Windsor is the personal surname (family name) of the descendants of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from her marriage to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in 1947 .
Origin of the name components
Windsor
The name of the British royal family has been Windsor since July 17, 1917 . By a decree signed that day, King George V renounced all German titles for himself and his family and called on his relatives living in the United Kingdom to do the same. At the same time, George V adopted the name Windsor, derived from Windsor Castle , for himself and his family instead of the previous name Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha (or its anglicized form Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ), which the descendants from the February 10, 1840 closed marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha had previously borne. Any descendants of the British monarchs before Queen Victoria were not affected by the provisions of the decree of George V.
The name change in 1917 was due to domestic political pressure during the First World War to emphasize the patriotic orientation of the British royal family and to reduce the importance of their German ancestry and their kinship with a ruling princely house of the German Empire in public opinion.
Mountbatten
On November 20, 1947, Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , the daughter and heir to the throne of the British King George VI. , the marriage to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who of George VI. Received the title of Duke of Edinburgh on the wedding day .
As the son of Prince Andreas of Greece and Denmark from the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and Princess Alice von Battenberg , Philip was a born Prince of Greece and Denmark. To marry Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1947, he had to accept British citizenship , renounced his previous titles and took the surname Mountbatten , which his mother's family had had since 1917. A native of Hesse British Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg , his maternal grandfather, then the invitation of King George V was followed and had his Hessian title as Prince of Battenberg stored and instead the surname Mountbatten accepted (later he became the Marquess of Milford Haven appointed ). His son Louis , uncle Philips, was also an important British admiral.
On February 22, 1957, Elizabeth II also awarded her husband the title of Prince of Great Britain and Northern Ireland .
Mountbatten-Windsor
In February 1960, Elizabeth II announced that "Mountbatten-Windsor" was the surname of her descendants from her marriage to Prince Philip. Nonetheless, Windsor remains the official name of the royal family; the name change does not apply to the descendants of members of the royal family who are not descended from the queen.
In her announcement, Elizabeth II also announced that the surname Mountbatten-Windsor would be carried by all of her descendants if they do not have the title His or Her Royal Highness or Prince or Princess or - if they are female - marry and be with them take her husband's name.
The heir to the throne ( Charles Mountbatten-Windsor ) then comes from the House of Mountbatten-Windsor , instead of his father's family, the royal Greek branch of the house of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg , a side branch in turn of the entire Oldenburg house , to which he nevertheless belongs dynastically in the male line . Charles' "artificial" maternal surname Windsor is actually preceded by the surname of his paternal grandmother, Alice von Battenberg , which is genealogically somewhat confusing .
List of namesake of the surname Mountbatten-Windsor in the order of succession
- Charles Mountbatten-Windsor, Prince of Wales
- William Mountbatten-Windsor, Duke of Cambridge
- George Mountbatten-Windsor
- Charlotte Mountbatten-Windsor
- Louis Mountbatten-Windsor
- Harry Mountbatten-Windsor, Duke of Sussex
- Archie Mountbatten-Windsor
- Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Duke of York
- Beatrice Mountbatten-Windsor
- Eugenie Mountbatten-Windsor (until she married Jack Brooksbank in 2018, when she took his last name)
- Edward Mountbatten-Windsor, Earl of Wessex
- James Mountbatten-Windsor, Viscount Severn
- Louise Mountbatten-Windsor
- Anne, Princess Royal (until she married Mark Phillips (1973, divorced in 1992), when she took on his last name. Her last name changed again when she married Timothy Laurence (1992))
Web links
- The Royal Family Name - to the surname Windsor and Mountbatten-Windsor of the members of the British royal family
Individual evidence
- ↑ Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Princely Houses Volume XV, Volume 114 of the Entire Series, Limburg (Lahn) 1997, p. 25: "Among those born later in the male line of Queen Elizabeth II , unless they have the title Royal Prince of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, instead of the surname "Windsor", the surname "Mountbatten-Windsor" (Royal Decree of February 8, 1960). " (The descendants of the ruling queen (or the king) in the first and second generation usually carry the title "Royal Prince or Royal Princess of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".)
- ↑ Der Spiegel 9/1960: England / Mountbatten, Die Rache der Battenberger (digitized version )
- ↑ The official website of The British Monarchy The Royal Family name ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 29, 2011
- ↑ Huffpost Style on April 29, 2011: Prince William & Kate's Last Name: Mountbatten-Windsor
