The_Walrus wrote:
vermontsavant wrote:
Biscuitman wrote:
Charles surname is Mountbatten-Windsor. The surnames of the royals is a weird thing, they use different ones due to family or land entitlements. Harry is sometimes called Harry Windsor and sometimes Harry Wales. And his real name isnt even Harry anyway!
What a confused mixed up bunch.
Wonder why Victoria didn't come up with something clever to save the Hanover name then.
Victoria was a Victorian (stating the obvious I know!) and didn’t really believe in challenging a woman’s place in society. Even when she became Queen, she continued to live with her mother (whom she hated) until she got married, as was the custom at the time.
Contrastingly, Elizabeth had another hundred years of social progress to build on. Women had the vote and could own property in their own right. Elizabeth and many women like her had supported the war effort by doing jobs that had previously been reserved for men. She would have thought about the institution of marriage and a woman’s place in society rather differently to Victoria.
Wait a minute.
All of that "Hanover" stuff, and all of that "Saxe-Coburg" stuff in the complicated royal names? Is that what you all are talking about?
Since the late 1700s the British Royal family has really been a German royal family.
The Royals deliberate axed all of that German sounding "Hanover" and "Saxe-Koburg" stuff during ...guess when???
World War One!! !!
Thats when they all changed their names to "Windsor" to sound purely British. Or that's my understanding of it.
Queen Victoria died in 1903. That was eleven years before the Great War broke out. So she didnt yet see the need for that PR change in name.