Editing House of Windsor (section)

==History==
In 1701, succession to the throne was given to [[Sophia of Hanover]], who was born into the [[House of Wittelsbach]], married into the [[House of Hanover]], and was a granddaughter of [[James VI and I]] of the [[House of Stuart]]. Succession was passed to her son who became [[George I of Great Britain|George I]] in 1714, marking the start of a long ruling period by the Hanoverian royal house. Eventually in 1901, a line of the [[House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] succeeded the House 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 name of the British royal house was changed from the German ''Saxe-Coburg and Gotha'' to the English ''Windsor'', taking its name from the royal residence in [[Berkshire]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.royal.uk/royal-family-name|title=The Royal Family name &#124; The Royal Family|website=The Royal Family }}</ref>

[[File:A Good Riddance - George V of the United Kingdom cartoon in Punch, 1917.png|thumb|left|"A Good Riddance"; cartoon from ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'', Vol. 152, 27 June 1917, commenting on the King's order to relinquish all German titles held by members of his family]]
[[King Edward VII]] and, in turn, his son, [[George V]], were members of the [[House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] branch of the [[House of Wettin]] by virtue of their descent from [[Albert, Prince Consort]], husband of [[Queen Victoria]], the last British monarch from the [[House of Hanover]]. High [[anti-German sentiment]] amongst the people of the [[British Empire]] during the [[First World War]]<ref name=jim2001>{{cite journal|last=McGuigan|first=Jim|title=British identity and 'people's princess'|journal=The Sociological Review|year=2001|volume=48|issue=1|pages=1–18|doi=10.1111/1467-954X.00200|s2cid=144119572}}</ref> reached a peak in March 1917, when the [[Gotha G.IV]], 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, King George's first cousin Emperor [[Nicholas II of Russia]] was forced to [[Abdication of Nicholas II|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 under the German Crown and to change German titles and house names to anglicised versions. Hence, on 17 July 1917, a [[royal proclamation]] issued by George V declared:

{{quotation|Now, therefore, We, out of Our Royal Will and Authority, do hereby declare and announce that as from the date of this Our Royal Proclamation Our House and Family shall be styled and known as the House and Family 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 descendants who may marry or may have married, shall bear the said Name of Windsor....<ref>{{cite web|title=By the King. A Proclamation |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30186/page/7119 |work=[[London Gazette]]|publisher=His Majesty's Stationery Office|issue=30186|page=7119|date=17 July 1917}}</ref>}}

The name had a long association with monarchy in Britain, through the town of [[Windsor, Berkshire]], and [[Windsor Castle]]. It was suggested by [[Arthur Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham]].<ref name=IMC>{{cite web |url=https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/surname-windsor-meaning-history-name-royal-family/ |title=How did the royal family choose the name 'Windsor'?|date=28 April 2021 |website=History Extra |publisher=Immediate Media Company |access-date=10 June 2021 }}</ref> Upon hearing that his cousin had changed the name of the British royal house to Windsor and in reference to [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s ''[[The Merry Wives of Windsor]]'', [[German Emperor]] [[Wilhelm II, German Emperor|Wilhelm II]] remarked jokingly that he planned to see "The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha".<ref>{{Citation | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4QcAVV_jIqYC&pg=PP22 | page=xxiii | publisher=Random House| title=George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I|first = Miranda|last=Carter|year=2010|isbn = 978-0307593023}}</ref>

George V also restricted the use of [[British prince]]ly titles to his nearest relations,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldica.org/topics/britain/prince_highness_docs.htm#1917_2|title=Styles of the members of the British royal family: Documents|publisher=Heraldica|date=30 November 1917}}</ref> and in 1919, he stripped three of his German relations of their British titles and styles under the [[Titles Deprivation Act 1917]].<ref>{{cite web|title=At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 28th day of March, 1919.|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31255/page/4000 |work=[[London Gazette]]|publisher=His Majesty's Stationery Office|issue=31255|page=4000|date=28 March 1919}}</ref>

The children and male-line descendants of Queen Elizabeth II and [[Prince Philip]] also genealogically belong to the [[House of Oldenburg]]<ref>{{cite book|title=Burke's Royal Families of the World |isbn=0850110238 |page=326}}</ref> since Philip was by birth a member of the [[House of Glücksburg|Glücksburg]] branch of that house.<ref name="Philip-Glücksburg"/>