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Old 11-25-2010, 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Taltarzac View Post
The movie The Young Victoria featured some scheming German princes who from as far as I can tell had descendents who renamed the fruits of their family tree the Windsors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_o...burg_and_Gotha
If I understand your question correctly, you have to understand that the current Royal Family is called the House of Windsor. Until 1917, the Royal House or Family, was known as the House of Hanover or Saxe-Coberg-Gotta. This was because Queen Victoria married Prince Albert Saxe-Coberg-Gotta in the early 1800s.

The Saxe-Coberg-Gotta name is a combination of two duchies in Germany. At that time in history, Germany was basically the states of Bavaria and Thuringia.

In 1917, the British were at war with then-Germany and the name was changed to the House of Windsor because of the German sounding name used prior to 1917.