Timeline for How do I choose the right name to suggest English nobility or royalty? [closed]
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| May 22, 2016 at 21:07 | history | closed |
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| May 22, 2016 at 21:07 | comment | added | Schwern | @SudoSedWinifred The grand irony is the Queen is more Germanic than English and the House of Windsor is made up. George V changed it to Windsor from "Saxe-Coburg and Gotha" of the House of Wettin because it sounded too Germanic when WWI broke out. | |
| May 22, 2016 at 20:49 | answer | added | JDługosz | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 22, 2016 at 17:17 | comment | added | SudoSedWinifred | But, the question is regarding surnames, anyway. And the simplest answer is "none." British nobility typically don't use surnames. A noble introducing themselves as <firstname> <lastname> is probably trying to pass for a commoner. | |
| May 22, 2016 at 17:14 | comment | added | SudoSedWinifred | Nobility intermarries culturally quite often (or did when feudalism ran the world, at least) for diplomatic and claim-acquiring purposes. All that is required for a British noble to wind up with the name Horatio is to have one parent from a noble house of Spain. | |
| May 22, 2016 at 8:10 | answer | added | Mirror318 | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 22, 2016 at 7:08 | comment | added | o.m. | I think this is a very good question. Compare Horatio Herbert Kitchener and Tommy Watkins ... would Mrs. Watkins have come up with a Horatio? | |
| May 22, 2016 at 2:01 | comment | added | SudoSedWinifred | I predict this will get put on hold pretty quickly, because you've asked an opinion-based question. If you want to know what the "Poshest" British name is, the present Queen of the UK is the richest woman on Earth (if you include real estate value.) That's relatively posh. Her dynastic name is Windsor, but it's not strictly her "surname", and this is somewhat typical for nobility. | |
| May 22, 2016 at 0:28 | comment | added | Schwern | What period in England? Depending on the period you might have a mix of Anglo-Saxon, Norman, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, and Germanic names for royalty. | |
| May 22, 2016 at 0:20 | history | edited | Brythan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 21, 2016 at 22:53 | history | asked | Alex Furtado | CC BY-SA 3.0 |