Originally Posted by
MacMillan of Rathdown
Probably because George V changed the family name to Windsor (from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) on the outbreak of WWI. Not that it fooled anyone. They were still as German as sauerkraut.
The name was not changed until 17 July 1917 which was hardly the "outbreak" of WW1. As to the "German as sauerkraut" bit that is hardly accurate as George V was half Danish and Queen Mary was both born and raised in the United Kingdom. It is not as if they were acting as the agents of the Kaiser.
There was much misleading propaganda at the time so that people were doing irrational things like kicking dachshunds in the street. It was therefore considered important that the British nature of the royal family should be re-emphasised.
And if "nobody was fooled" then why did the House of Windsor stay on the throne when so many other royal houses did not?
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