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Did the british royal family changed it's name from Battenburg to Windsor because it sounded too German?
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The name was SAXE-COBURG-GOTHA for the Queen's side of the family and SHLESWEIG-HOLSTEIN-
SONDERBURG-GLUCKSBURG
and BATTENBERG for Philip's side. The names were changed during WORLD WAR I right after London was bombed by 24 twin-engined GOTHA war planes. King George V was very angry with his German relatives;cousin bombed cousin! England was angry,too.The royal famly changed their name to Windsor,which was one of their castles to show solidarity with their country,which was the United Kingdom,and not Germany.Philip's side of the family the Shlesweig-Holstein-
Sonderburg-Glucksburgs are
of a DANISH royal house with some German ancestry.Queen Alexandra,who was the member of the Danish royal house,was always anti-German in sentiment,ever since Germany took over part of Denmark.So the change to Battenberg,then Mountbatten,after the bombing, for Philip's family,wasn't surprising,although the very Danish Philip's two sisters married into German aristocracy.
The name change was a response to their German relatives-the war was not appreciated and bombing one's own family members was a particular insult.One major reason that so many royals do have some German ancestry was the doing of Queen Victoria;she had a vision in which all of her family members occupied the thrones of Europe,making the world a safer,more peaceful place where no government would have the need to bully others.
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