Prince Andrew Will Now Be Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. Where Does the Royal Last Name Come From? Janine HenniOctober 31, 2025 at 11:30 PM 0 Karwai Tang/WireImage Prince Andrew leaves King Charles' coronation on May 6, 2023 in London Buckingham Palace announced on Oct.
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Janine HenniOctober 31, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Prince Andrew leaves King Charles' coronation on May 6, 2023 in London -
Buckingham Palace announced on Oct. 30 that Prince Andrew has been stripped of all his royal titles and will now be called Andrew Mountbatten Windsor
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip created the surname in 1960
Andrew joins several younger family members in using the last name, currently
Prince Andrew has been stripped of his royal titles and will now go by Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, calling for a close look at the last name.
Though the British royals are widely known by their royal titles and first names, such as King Charles or Prince William, the family uses the surname of Mountbatten Windsor when a last name is necessary.
Mountbatten Windsor has been the official last name for direct descendants of the late Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip since 1960, combining the last names affiliated with both of their families. Mountbatten stemmed from Prince Philip's lineage, while Windsor came from the Queen's side of the family.
Before he married then-Princess Elizabeth in 1947, Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark adopted his family's name of Mountbatten when he became a naturalized British citizen.
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Then-Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Edward in 1970.
Windsor, meanwhile, had been linked to Queen Elizabeth's side of the family tree for even longer.
In 1917, her grandfather, King George V, made the dramatic change of adopting Windsor as his family's surname, cutting ties with the dynasty of House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha amid an anti-German sentiment in Britain during World War I.
"The family name was changed as a result of anti-German feeling during the First World War, and the name Windsor was adopted after the Castle of the same name," the royal family's website says about where Windsor came from.
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Windsor Castle in the 1980s.
Windsor continued as the royal family's last name following Queen Elizabeth's accession in 1952, but she and Prince Philip changed it up a few years later by introducing the combination surname of Mountbatten Windsor.
"In 1960, The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh decided that they would like their own direct descendants to be distinguished from the rest of the Royal Family (without changing the name of the Royal House), as Windsor is the surname used by all the male and unmarried female descendants of George V," the royal family's website says.
"It was therefore declared in the Privy Council that The Queen's descendants, other than those with the style of Royal Highness and the title of Prince/Princess, or female descendants who marry, would carry the name of Mountbatten-Windsor… The effect of the declaration was that all The Queen's children, on occasions when they needed a surname, would have the surname Mountbatten-Windsor."
Princess Anne was the first to officially use Mountbatten Windsor as a last name at the marriage register when she wed her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips, in 1973, and today, Mountbatten Windsor remains the surname for several generations.
Yui Mok - WPA Pool/Getty British royal family members at King Charles and Queen Camilla's coronation at Westminster Abbey on May 6, 2023.
Prince Edward's daughter is listed as Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor in the British royal family's official line of succession to the throne, and Prince Harry's children are called "Master Archie Mountbatten-Windsor" and "Miss Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor" on their birth certificates (they are now known as Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet after their grandfather King Charles' accession to the throne in 2022).
On Oct. 30, Buckingham Palace announced the huge news that King Charles was stripping his second brother of all his royal titles, explaining that he would now be Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
"His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew," the explosive statement began. "Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor."
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Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew at the Duchess of Kent's funeral on Sept. 16, 2025.
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It added that Andrew will also relinquish his contentious residence at Royal Lodge but "continues to deny the allegations against him."
The moves come amid renewed scrutiny around Andrew's connection to the late, disgraced Jeffrey Epstein, which set his step back from public life in motion following a bombshell BBC interview in November 2019.
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