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Royal house of the Democracy realms

Firm of Windsor
Badge of the House of Windsor
Parent house	Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Buck co-operative of Wettin)
Country	Great britain and other Democracy realms
Founded	17 July 1917; 104 years agone  (1917-07-17)
Founder	George Five
Current head	Elizabeth II
Members	List
Buck branches	Mountbatten-Windsor (by cognatic descent)

The Business firm of Windsor is the reigning royal house of the United kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. In 1901, a line of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (itself a buck branch of the House of Wettin) succeeded the Business firm of Hanover to the British monarchy with the accession of King Edward VII, son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. In 1917, the proper name of the British royal house was changed from the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the English Windsor because of anti-German sentiment in the Britain during Earth War I.^[1] There have been 4 British monarchs of the House of Windsor since then: George V, Edward Eight, George VI, and Elizabeth II.

The electric current head of the house is monarch of fifteen sovereign states. These are the United Kingdom (where they are based), Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. As well equally these split up monarchies, there are as well 3 Crown dependencies, xiv British Overseas Territories and two associated states of New Zealand.

Groundwork [edit]

"A Good Riddance"; cartoon from Punch, Vol. 152, 27 June 1917, commenting on the Rex's order to relinquish all German titles held by members of his family

Edward VII and, in turn, his son, George V, were members of the German ducal House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha by virtue of their descent from Albert, Prince Consort, hubby of Queen Victoria, the terminal British monarch from the House of Hanover. High anti-German sentiment amidst the people of the British Empire during World War I reached a top in March 1917, when the Gotha One thousand.4, a heavy aircraft capable of crossing the English Channel, began bombing London directly and became a household name. In the same year, on 15 March, Rex George's first cousin, Nicholas 2, the Emperor of Russian federation, was forced to abdicate, which raised the spectre of the eventual abolition of all the monarchies in Europe. The King and his family were finally persuaded to abandon all titles held nether the German Crown and to modify German titles and house names to anglicised versions. Hence, on 17 July 1917, a royal proclamation issued by George 5 declared:

Now, therefore, We, out of Our Royal Will and Authorisation, exercise hereby declare and announce that as from the date of this Our Royal Proclamation Our House and Family shall exist styled and known equally the House and Family unit of Windsor, and that all the descendants in the male line of Our said Grandmother Queen Victoria who are subjects of these Realms, other than female person descendants who may marry or may have married, shall bear the said Proper name of Windsor....^[2]

The name had a long association with monarchy in Britain, through the town of Windsor, Berkshire, and Windsor Castle; the link is alluded to in the Round Tower of Windsor Castle being the ground of the bluecoat of the Firm of Windsor. It was suggested past Arthur Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham.^[iii] Upon hearing that his cousin had changed the name of the British royal house to Windsor and in reference to Shakespeare'south The Merry Wives of Windsor, German Emperor Wilhelm 2 remarked jokingly that he planned to see "The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha".^[4]

George V as well restricted the use of British princely titles to his nearest relations,^[v] and in 1919, he stripped three of his High german relations of their British titles and styles.^[6]

Listing of monarchs [edit]

Portrait	Name	Nativity	Reign	Coronation	Spouse	Death	Claim
	George V	three June 1865 Marlborough Business firm	six May 1910 – xx January 1936[seven] (25 years, 260 days)	22 June 1911	Mary of Teck	20 Jan 1936 Sandringham House (anile 70 years, 230 days)	Son of Edward Vii and Alexandra of Denmark
	Edward Viii	23 June 1894 White Society, Richmond Park	20 January 1936 – xi Dec 1936 (10 months, 21 days)	Cancelled	Wallis Simpson	28 May 1972 4 Route du Champ d'Entraînement (aged 77 years, 340 days)	Son of George V and Mary of Teck
	George VI	fourteen December 1895 York Cottage	11 Dec 1936 – 6 February 1952 (fifteen years, 57 days)	12 May 1937	Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon	vi February 1952 Sandringham Firm (aged 56 years, 54 days)	Son of George V and Mary of Teck
	Elizabeth II	21 Apr 1926 17 Bruton Street, Mayfair	6 Feb 1952 – present (seventy years, 25 days)	two June 1953	Philip Mountbatten	Living (age 95 years, 316 days)	Daughter of George Half dozen and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

Members [edit]

Members of the House of Windsor on the balustrade of Buckingham Palace, 15 June 2013. Left to right: Prince Richard, Knuckles of Gloucester; Lady Rose Gilman; Prince Michael of Kent; Princess Michael of Kent; Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor; Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex; James Mountbatten-Windsor, Viscount Severn; Sophie, Countess of Wessex; Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall; Prince Charles, Prince of Wales; Queen Elizabeth Two; Princess Anne, Princess Royal; Prince Andrew, Duke of York; Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex; Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge; Prince William, Duke of Cambridge; Princess Eugenie; Princess Beatrice; Prince Edward, Duke of Kent; Katharine, Duchess of Kent

The 1917 proclamation stated that the name of the Regal Business firm and all British descendants of Victoria and Albert in the male line were to bear the name of Windsor, except for women who married into other families.

Descendants of Elizabeth II [edit]

In 1947, Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth Two), heir presumptive to King George VI, married Philip Mountbatten (built-in Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark), a member of the Firm of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a branch of the House of Oldenburg. A few months before his marriage, Philip abandoned his princely titles and adopted the surname Mountbatten, which was that of his uncle and mentor, the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and had itself been adopted past Lord Mountbatten's father (Philip'south maternal grandpa), Prince Louis of Battenberg, in 1917. It is the literal translation of the High german Battenberg, which refers to Battenberg, a pocket-size town in Hesse.

Soon after Elizabeth became Queen in 1952, Lord Mountbatten observed that considering it was the standard practice for the wife in a union to prefer her hubby'due south surname, the House of Mountbatten now reigned. When Elizabeth's grandmother, Queen Mary, heard of this comment, she informed British Prime Government minister Winston Churchill and he after advised the Queen to issue a royal announcement declaring that the regal house was to remain known as the House of Windsor. This she did on ix April 1952, officially declaring it her "Will and Pleasure that I and My children shall be styled and known as the House and Family of Windsor, and that My descendants, other than female descendants who marry and their descendants, shall behave the proper name of Windsor."^[8] Philip privately complained, "I am goose egg just a bloody amoeba. I am the simply homo in the land not immune to give his name to his own children."^[ix]

On 8 February 1960, some years after both the decease of Queen Mary and the resignation of Churchill, the Queen confirmed that she and her children would continue to be known equally the "House and Family of Windsor", as would whatsoever agnatic descendants who enjoy the style of Royal Highness and the title of prince or princess.^[8] Still, Elizabeth besides decreed that her agnatic descendants who do not have that style and title would carry the surname Mountbatten-Windsor.^[8]

This came later some months of correspondence between the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the constitutional expert Edward Iwi. Iwi had raised the prospect that the royal kid due to be born in Feb 1960 would bear "the Badge of Bastardy" if it were given its mother's maiden name (Windsor) rather than its father's proper name (Mountbatten). Macmillan had attempted to rebuff Iwi, until the Queen advised Rab Butler in January 1960 that for some time she had her heart assail a modify that would recognise the name Mountbatten. She conspicuously wished to make this change before the birth of her child. The event did not affect Prince Charles or Princess Anne, every bit they had been born with the name Mountbatten, before the Queen'due south accession to the throne.^[10] Prince Andrew was born 11 days later on, on 19 February 1960.

Any time to come monarch can change the dynastic proper name through a like majestic proclamation, as royal proclamations do non have statutory authority.^[xi]

Family tree [edit]

• Red-framed persons are living
• Black-framed persons are deceased
• Bold borders signal children of British monarchs

Family tree of the Firm of Windsor

Male monarch George V Queen Mary King Edward Eight[a] King George Half-dozen Queen Elizabeth Princess Mary, Princess Royal Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester Prince George, Duke of Kent Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent Prince John Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh The Queen (Elizabeth Two) Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon Prince William of Gloucester The Duchess of Gloucester (Birgitte) The Duke of Gloucester (Richard) The Duke of Kent (Edward) The Duchess of Kent (Katharine) Princess Alexandra Prince Michael of Kent Princess Michael of Kent The Duchess of Cornwall (Camilla) The Prince of Wales (Charles) Diana, Princess of Wales (divorced) The Princess Royal (Anne) The Duke of York (Andrew) Sarah, Duchess of York (divorced) The Earl of Wessex (Edward) The Countess of Wessex (Sophie) The Duchess of Cambridge (Catherine) The Knuckles of Cambridge (William) The Duke of Sussex (Harry) The Duchess of Sussex (Meghan) Princess Beatrice Princess Eugenie Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor Viscount Severn (James) Prince George of Cambridge Princess Charlotte of Cambridge Prince Louis of Cambridge Archie Mountbatten-Windsor Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor

States reigned over [edit]

At the creation of the House of Windsor, its head reigned over the British Empire. Following the terminate of the Commencement Earth War, all the same, shifts took place that saw the emergence of the Dominions of the British Commonwealth as contained states. The shift was recognised in the Balfour Annunciation of 1926,^{[12] [thirteen]} the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Human activity 1927,^{[xiv] [fifteen]} and the Statute of Westminster 1931.^{[16] [17]} The Windsors became recognised every bit the royal family of multiple independent countries, a number that shifted over the decades, as some Dominions became republics and Crown colonies became realms, republics, or monarchies under a different sovereign.^[eighteen] Since 1949, ii monarchs of the House of Windsor, George VI and Elizabeth Ii, have also been Head of the Commonwealth of Nations, comprising near (but not all) parts of the former British Empire and some states that were never part of information technology.^{[xix] [20] [21]}

State	Dates
Antigua and Barbuda	1981–present
Australia	1917–nowadays
Bahamas	1973–present
Barbados	1966–2021
Belize	1981–present
Canada	1917–nowadays
Ceylon	1948–1972
Republic of the fiji islands	1970–1987
The The gambia	1965–1970
Ghana	1957–1960
Grenada	1974–nowadays
Guyana	1966–1970
India	1947–1950
Irish Free Land	1922–1949
Jamaica	1962–nowadays
Malawi	1964–1966
Malta	1964–1974
Republic of mauritius	1968–1992
New Zealand	1917–present
Nigeria	1960–1963
Rule of Islamic republic of pakistan	1947–1956
Papua New Republic of guinea	1975–present
Saint Kitts and Nevis	1983–present
Saint Lucia	1979–nowadays
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1979–nowadays
Sierra Leone	1961–1971
Solomon Islands	1978–present
S Africa	1917–1961
Tanganyika	1961–1962
Trinidad and Tobago	1962–1976
Tuvalu	1978–nowadays
Uganda	1962–1963
United Kingdom	1917–present

See as well [edit]

• British prince
• British princess
• Descendants of George 5
• Succession to the British throne

Notes [edit]

1. ^ Afterward his abdication in 1936, King Edward Eight became the Duke of Windsor.

References [edit]

1. ^ McGuigan, Jim (2001). "British identity and 'people's princess'". The Sociological Review. 48 (1): 1–18. doi:x.1111/1467-954X.00200. S2CID 144119572.
2. ^ "No. 30186". The London Gazette. 17 July 1917. p. 7119.
3. ^ "How did the imperial family choose the proper name 'Windsor'?". History Extra. Immediate Media Company. 28 April 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
4. ^ Carter, Miranda (2010), George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Iii Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I, Random House, p. xxiii, ISBN9780307593023
5. ^ "Styles of the members of the British royal family: Documents". Heraldica. 30 Nov 1917.
6. ^ "At the Courtroom at Buckingham Palace, the 28th day of March, 1919". London Gazette. His Majesty'due south Stationery Function. 28 March 1919. p. 4000.
7. ^ George V was a member of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha until he changed the name of the royal house to Windsor on 17 July 1917.
8. ^ ^{a b c} "Purple Styles and Titles of Britain: Documents". world wide web.heraldica.org. Archived from the original on 23 April 2016.
9. ^ Brandreth, Gyles (2004). Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage. p.253–254. London: Century. ISBN 0-7126-6103-four
10. ^ Travis, Alan (xviii Feb 1999). "Queen feared 'slur' on family", The Guardian Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 17 April 2014
11. ^ The Majestic Family unit proper noun Archived 30 May 2016 at the Wayback Motorcar, Royal Household, retrieved 24 April 2016
12. ^ "Clause II" (PDF).
13. ^ "Balfour Report | United Kingdom [1926]". Encyclopedia Britannica.
14. ^ "Royal and Parliamentary Titles Human action 1927".
15. ^ "The Government of U.k. and the Dominions and Colonies", Albert Edmond Hogan, Isabell Gladys Powell, Harold Plaskitt, D.M. Glew, University tutorial Press Limited, p. 238, 1939
16. ^ "Statute of Westminster, 1931, 22 Geo. V, c. 4, s. iv" (PDF).
17. ^ "Statute of Westminster | Britain [1931]". Encyclopedia Britannica.
18. ^ "The Monarchy Today > Queen and Commonwealth > Democracy Members". 29 February 2012. Archived from the original on 29 Feb 2012.
19. ^ "Commonwealth (general)". The Royal Family. xi March 2016.
20. ^ "London Declaration". The Commonwealth. sixteen May 2019.
21. ^ Hardman, Robert (2018), Queen of the World, Random House, ISBN9781473549647 ^{[ page needed ]}

Bibliography [edit]

• Longford, Elizabeth Harman (Countess of Longford). The Royal Business firm of Windsor. Revised ed. Crown, 1984.
• Roberts, Andrew. The Business firm of Windsor. University of California Printing, 2000.

External links [edit]

• Regal Family name from majestic.uk
• Firm of Windsor from royal.great britain
• Business firm of Windsor Tree from regal.gov.uk (Lord Culloden & Albert+Leopold Windsor are missing)

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Windsor

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