Prince Philip would ‘turn in his grave’ if he knew Harry and Meghan Markle didn’t give kids his last name
nypost.comthe last name of Sussex rather than Mountbatten-Windsor.This moniker would have angered the late Prince Philip if he was still alive — according to a royal expert.
The Duke of Edinburgh died in April 2021 at the age of 99, and the surname of Mountbatten-Windsor was bestowed upon his male-line descendants since 1960.Royal expert Ingrid Seward penned for the Daily Mail how the Greek prince would have been royally peeved — and would “turn in his grave” — at the Duke of Sussex’s choice to change his kids’ names.
She wrote that Harry’s decision “will only serve to further distance the prince and his children” from the Firm.The House of Windsor changed their own name in 1917 from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
The dynasty transformed their epithet due to the anti-German sentiment rife during World War I.When the late Queen Elizabeth became the monarch in 1952, Philip was “wounded” that his children would be Windsors instead of Mountbattens.Before Philip married Elizabeth in 1947, he renounced his claim to the Greek and Danish thrones and took his mother’s last name, Mountbatten.“How sad, therefore, that only three generations later, Harry should so blatantly disregard his grandfather’s wishes and effectively abandon the family name for which Philip had fought,” Seward said.
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