windsors family name

[mjandrews96]

can anybody tell me the windsors family name before windsor/mountbatten somebody once told me it used be "guelph" and that is why in a lot of old hospitals wards named guelph is this correct and when was it changed answers from historic buffs plse

[Hammond Egg]

It was Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

The name was changed during the First World War.

The Mountbatten family was previously known as Battenburg.

[suffragette]

In Britain, the Guelph family were known as the 'Hanovers' and Queen Victoria was the last member of our Royal Family to have been considered a member.

However, Hammond Egg is also correct because Saxe Coburg Gotha was the name of the family pre-WW1 and is taken from Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert, who was from that particular family.