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by **Dan4th** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 6:29 pm

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44814857/ns/today-today_people/?GT1=43001

Hope this will pull up over there.......

Danf.

by **Gaz** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 7:18 pm

Surely he's "Capt. Mountbatten-Windsor"

Just to be picky!

by **Xplumberlives** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 8:54 pm

Gaz wrote:Surely he's "Capt. Mountbatten-Windsor"

Just to be picky!

Captain Wales!

by **Sooty655** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 7:41 pm

Xplumberlives wrote:
Gaz wrote:Surely he's "Capt. Mountbatten-Windsor"

Just to be picky!

Captain Wales!

Isn't he Capt. Harry Saxe-Coburg-Gotha?

by **Xplumberlives** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 7:42 pm

Sooty655 wrote:
Xplumberlives wrote:
Gaz wrote:Surely he's "Capt. Mountbatten-Windsor"

Just to be picky!

Captain Wales!

Isn't he Capt. Harry Saxe-Coburg-Gotha?

Captain Wales.

by **Gaz** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 8:02 pm

Ohhhh, he has a stage name!

Makes him a less obvious target, I would guess

by **Mayfly** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 8:04 pm

Good old Harry!!!! :ymapplause:

by **Jigsaw** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 8:56 pm

Mayfly wrote:Good old Harry!!!!

Yeah, that :ymapplause:

by **Nickolas** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 10:14 pm

I was flying with his helicopter instructor today, Flt Booley. Bloody nice bloke :ymapplause:

by **Xplumberlives** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 10:28 pm

Nickolas wrote:I was flying with his helicopter instructor today, Flt Booley. Bloody nice bloke

by **Nickolas** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 10:32 pm

you silly sod.

by **MOD** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 7:24 pm

There is no wonder Prince Philip was incensed when Churchill (not QEII) declared that his offspring would not receive his family surname ..

William and Harry should be Mountbattens.

"Elizabeth II was born Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor. In 1917, before Elizabeth was born, the royal family adopted the name Windsor, after their principal castle, because their surname Wettin sounded too German for popular opinion during World War I. Wettin derived from Queen Victoria's husband Albert, who belonged to the Wettin family of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

In 1952 Elizabeth II declared that her descendants would belong to the House of Windsor and should use the name Windsor as their surname. In 1960 the queen modified the order by allowing her descendants who do not hold royal titles to use the name Mountbatten-Windsor, which is a combination of Prince Philip's surname and the queen's surname. Without this order, all of the queen's descendants would bear their father's surname Mountbatten.

In practice, descendants of the queen such as the Duke of York use the name Mountbatten-Windsor, despite being members of the royal family. As is common amongst British nobles, Prince Andrew, Earl of Wessex, uses his title as a surname, so he is known as Andrew Wessex. Similarly, Princes William and Harry use their father's title as their surname, and go by William Wales and Harry Wales. Under the 1960 order, Prince Charles's surname is Windsor, though he too uses the name Mountbatten-Windsor or his title Prince of Wales."

Guys , imagine being told that your sons and daughters cannot use your surname!!! But they must use a fictitious one instead.

ibw

by **Sooty655** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 7:46 pm

Mountbatten was a name change. He was baptised Philip Battenberg (of the Schleswig-Holstein Battenbergs).

If the kids took his moniker, they'd be named after a rather boring cake. :))

by **Xplumberlives** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 7:59 pm

MOD wrote: Guys , imagine being told that your sons and daughters cannot use your surname!!! But they must use a fictitious one instead.

ibw

And for all the money they receive, I reckon they might be able to accept it! [-x

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