Royalty question

mommytosam011011

Why don't kings, queens, princes etc. use their last names?

ktshoff

Stardust225:

Do they have last names? 

+1

jess60

They have last names, but they are rarely used because they don't need to be.  Everyone knows who they are.

Their last names follow the dynasty they belong to.

Windsor is Queen Elizabeth's last name, I believe.

ETA: Link with long, boring explanations.

https://www.royal.gov.uk/thecurrentroyalfamily/theroyalfamilyname/overview.aspx

 

MrsGoodkat

I don't know why they don't use them other than there's not really a need but they do have surnames. 

Libby1978

I thought Windsor was the last name of the British royal family.  I guess just because I hear reference to "The House of Windsor."

LoveBeingAWife33008

I know Prince William, Duke of Cambridge's name is William Arthur Philip Louis.  Their last name is "of city/town/county/someplace" isnt it?

luckyluvr

On another note, how many people really know Madonna's last name, or Prince?

historychick79

-auntie-:

LoveBeingAWife33008:

I know Prince William, Duke of Cambridge's name is William Arthur Philip Louis.  Their last name is "of city/town/county/someplace" isnt it?

William and Harry do use Wales as a kind of surname in the military and in school. Their last name is reputed to be Windsor, but most of the lesser royals use a hyphenated Mountbatten-Windsor last name. Mountbatten is the surname Philip chose; it ia an Anglicized version of his mother's last name- Battenberg which was changed around WW I. Windsor was chosen at the same time to make a break with Germany. Prince Albert's surname- Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Philip's dad's family name is Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg

If I remember correctly, they switched from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in 1917 with WWI, since it was no longer politically correct to be associated with Germany (which the royals have technically been since the Hanovers claimed their descendency starting in 1714 once the Stuart line died out). Windsor is nice and Anglicised...

michaels_girl

luckyluvr:

On another note, how many people really know Madonna's last name, or Prince?

madonna is Ciccone, don't know Prince.