> > Actually, i think you'll find the Queen's REAL surname is Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, She's of Germainic decent (a Hanoverian. The royal family changed their name to Windsor during the first world war i believe....obviously having a Germanic surname didnt quite seem right at the time!!!! > When the Queen married she would normally have adopted her husband's name which was Schleswig-Holstein Sonderburg Glucksberg. Perhaps that is why she stuck to Windsor. Prince Philip chose to be known by his uncle's anglicised name Mountbatten from Battenberg. I think some of their descendants will be known as Mountbatten-Windsor.
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