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Mountbatten-Windsor is the personal surname of some of the descendants of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh under a Declaration made in Council in 1960.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.royal.gov.uk/ThecurrentRoyalFamily/TheRoyalFamilyname/Overview.aspx )〕 However, although the declaration specifically applies the name "Mountbatten-Windsor" to male-line descendants of the Queen not holding Royal styles and titles, "Mountbatten-Windsor" has been used by descendents of Queen Elizabeth II who do hold Royal styles. This is presumably on the basis that the 1960 declaration is argued to confer a "hidden surname" in such cases.〔 http://www.heraldica.org/topics/britain/TNA/HO_290_72.htm (see, in particular, the article by Edward F. Iwi).〕 For example, each of Prince Andrew, Duke of York and Anne, the Princess Royal, children of the Queen, used the surname "Mountbatten-Windsor" in official marriage registry entries. Likewise, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge used the name when filing a French lawsuit related to the topless pictures of Catherine published by the French magazine ''Closer''.〔http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/william-and-kate-win-legal-battle--but-lose-war-to-keep-topless-photos-under-wraps-8153383.html〕 Mountbatten-Windsor differs from the official name of the British Royal Family or Royal House, which remains Windsor.〔 The adoption of the Mountbatten-Windsor surname applies only to members of the Royal Family who are descended from the Queen, and not, for example, to her cousins, or descendants of her sister, Princess Margaret. Mountbatten-Windsor may be considered a cadet branch of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, which in turn is a branch of the House of Oldenburg. ==History of the Mountbatten and Windsor surnames== The Mountbatten surname derives from the German town of ''Battenberg'', in Hesse. Prince Louis of Battenberg Anglicised his surname to Mountbatten (its literal English translation) during the First World War at the request of King George V. When then-Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, a member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (the royal house of Denmark and Norway and the deposed royal house of Greece) took British citizenship, he used this surname since he descends from the Battenberg family through his mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg. The name Windsor was adopted by the British branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1917. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mountbatten-Windsor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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