What's Prince Harry's Last Name, Anyway?

[riversedge]

Some interesting information.


05/07/2018 12:01 pm ET Updated 4 hours ago

What’s Prince Harry’s Last Name, Anyway?
The British royal family doesn’t typically use a surname, but they do have one. 👑


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/prince-harry-last-name_us_5aec7f8ce4b041fd2d263580

By Kelsey Borresen


Prince Harry, who is set to marry Meghan Markle on May 19, is so widely known he needs no last name to be recognized. But have you ever wondered what his surname is?

Turns out it’s a bit complicated. For starters, British royals don’t typically use last names and often include their territorial designation in their title instead; for instance, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.

“A British royal signs only his or her first name,” royal historian Marlene Koenig, who runs the website Royal Musings, told HuffPost. “They don’t use last names because they are ‘of’ something. They are prince or princess of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but are styled as ‘of Wales,’ ‘of York,’ ‘of Cambridge,’ etc.”

Prince Harry's full title is His Royal Highness Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales. And, no, Wales is not his la
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Prince Harry’s full title is His Royal Highness Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales. And, no, Wales is not his last name.

When Harry was baptized in 1984, he was given the name Henry Charles Albert David, making his full title “His Royal Highness (HRH) Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales” because his father, Charles, is the prince of Wales.

But if he needed to use a surname for one reason or another, he could use Mountbatten-Windsor.................................................................


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[Siwsan]

1. I do believe it is Mountbatten-Windsor.

Prince Phillip's family name was Battenburg, but that was anglicized to Mountbatten during the First World War. The Queen is from the House of Windsor.

[MANative]

8. Correct nt

[SummerSnow]

9. Yep

[mcar]

2. Rumor has it the Queen will name him and Meghan

Duke and Duchess of Sussex. They'll be called the "Sussexes" as a reference, as William and Kate are referred to as the "Cambridges."

[Scurrilous]

3. His brother was the heir, he was the spare, so Harry Spare.

[rurallib]

4. makes perfect sense to me - and easy to remember.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Technically and historically, the Queen's surname (passed on to Charles and his boys) is Wittenberg

and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, as descendants of Prince Albert (from Germany). The name was changed from to the English Windsor in 1917 because of anti-German sentiment in the British Empire during World War I. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Windsor

Similarly Lord Louis Mountbatten had his family name changed from Battenberg to the anglicized Mountbatten for the same reason.

[CincyDem]

6. Prince Edward uses "Edward Windsor" for business.

He owns a business that provides many, if not most, of the lights and sound equipment for london west end theaters. A friend used to work in one of the theater offices and it took her years to figure out that the guy she talked to all the time, Edward Windsor, was THE Prince Edward. Changed the conversation for her once she knew it. She said something about it to him and his response was something like - "yes, but we don't have to worry about all that pomp". lol


I think Mountbatten was excluded from the family name in the early 60's. ???

[mainstreetonce]

7. I think it is Windsor

Elizabeth's children were given her name ,not Philip's

I got that from The Crown.