House of Windsor
In 1917, the name of the royal house was changed from the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the English Windsor. In 1947, Princess Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten, a member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. Soon in 1952, it was observed that because it was the standard practice for the wife of a royal to adopt her husband’s surname, the house...
