Thursday, June 19, 2008
This Day in the History of Duplicitous Name Changes
On this day in 1917, King George V ordered members of the British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames. They took the name Windsor, because Saxe-Coburg-Gotha sounded pretty German. because, well, it was.
Labels: Saxe-Coburg-Gotha; Windsor, WWI history
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 12:06 AM 
