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The House of Windsor is a British royal house, and currently the reigning house of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. The royal house's name was inspired by the historic Windsor Castle estate. Since it was founded on 17 July 1917, there have been five British monarchs of the House of Windsor: George V, Edward VIII, George VI ...
The House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry is a Catholic cadet branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. It was founded with the marriage of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, second son of Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, with Princess Maria Antonia Koháry de Csábrág. Their second son Prince August inherited the estates of ...
Mountbatten-Windsor. (by cognatic descent) The House of Mountbatten is a British dynasty that originated as a British branch of the German princely House of Battenberg. The name was adopted on 14 July 1917, three days before the British royal family changed its name from "Saxe-Coburg and Gotha" to "Windsor", by members of the Battenberg family ...
Charles Edward responded by introducing a legal change that would stop his British relatives from ever inheriting his other property. The British royal family later changed its name from the German-sounding Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the House of Windsor. [105] The Titles Deprivation Act 1917 began the process of removing his British titles. [106]
Truly never seen a string of words so completely unserious. All that said, when the British royals do use a last name, it's typically Windsor. Or, er, Mountbatten-Windsor, sometimes but not always ...
Louise, Princess Royal 1867–1931: Alexander Duff 1st Duke of Fife 1849–1912: Princess Victoria 1868–1935: Maud of Wales 1869–1938: Haakon VII King of Norway 1872–1957: Prince Alexander John of Wales 1871: Wallis, Duchess of Windsor 1896–1986: King Edward VIII Duke of Windsor 1894–1972 r. 1936: King George VI 1895–1952 r. 1936–1952
The following image is a family tree of every prince, king, queen, monarch, confederation president and emperor of Germany, from Charlemagne in 800 over Louis the German in 843 through to Wilhelm II in 1918. It shows how almost every single ruler of Germany was related to every other by marriages, and hence they can all be put into a single tree.
In the early part of the 20th century, before the First World War, it was the family of the sovereigns of the United Kingdom, Belgium, Portugal, Bulgaria, and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. In 1910, the Portuguese king was deposed, and the same thing occurred in Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in 1918 and in Bulgaria in 1946. As of 2024, a branch of the family still ...