| LC control no. | nb2016007715 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Family name heading | Windsor (Royal house : 1917- : Great Britain) |
| Variant(s) | House of Windsor (1917- : Great Britain) 溫莎 (Royal house : 1917- : Great Britain) Wensha (Royal house : 1917- : Great Britain) 溫莎王朝 (1917- : Great Britain) Wensha wang chao (1917- : Great Britain) 윈저 (Royal house : 1917- : Great Britain) Winjŏ (Royal house : 1917- : Great Britain) 윈저가 (1917- : Great Britain) Winjŏga (1917- : Great Britain) Οίκος του Ουίνδσορ (1917- : Great Britain) Oikos tou Ouindsor (1917- : Great Britain) Ουίνδσορ (Royal house : 1917- : Great Britain) Ouindsor (Royal house : 1917- : Great Britain) ווינדזאר (Royal house : 1917- : Great Britain) Ṿindzor (Royal house : 1917- : Great Britain) ווינדזאר הויז (1917- : Great Britain) Ṿindzor hoyz (1917- : Great Britain) וינדזור (Royal house : 1917- : Great Britain) בית וינדזור (1917- : Great Britain) Bet Ṿindzor (1917- : Great Britain) |
| See also | Descendant family of: Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Royal house : 1901-1917 : Great Britain) Family member: Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-2022 http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/u/P60697 |
| Other standard no. | cnp00588121 217298 53146094203900330996 Q81589 |
| Biography/History note | The House of Windsor is the royal house of the United Kingdom. The dynasty includes Edward VII (reigned 1901-1910), George V (1910-1936), Edward VIII (1936), George VI (1936-1952), Elizabeth II (1952-2022), and Charles III (2022- ). It was founded by King George V on 17 July 1917 when he changed the name from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor because of anti-German sentiment in the United Kingdom during World War I. |
| Beginning date | 1917-07-17 |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Type of family | Royal houses Dynasties |
| Special note | Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | The ultimate family, 2013: title page (House of Windsor) Wikipedia, 7 April 2016: House of Windsor (it is the royal house of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, it was founded by King George V on 17 July 1917 when he changed the name of the British Royal Family from the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the English Windsor) The House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, via English monarchs website, February 30, 2020 (The House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha; On the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 the royal house took the Germanic surname of her consort Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. King Edward VII, who reigned until 1910, was to become the only sovereign of that dynasty to reign in Britain; At the height of World War I, when German xenophobia had reached boiling point, Edward VII's son, King George V (1910-1936) changed the family name to the more English sounding House of Windsor) Wikipedia, February 30, 2020 (House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; German dynasty that ruled Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; Agnatic branches currently reign in Belgium--the descendants of Leopold I--and in the United Kingdom--the descendants of Albert, Prince Consort. In 1917, the first World War caused George V to change from "Saxe-Coburg and Gotha" to the House of Windsor in the United Kingdom) The royal family, viewed online on September 12, 2022: post "Announcement of the death of the Queen" ([Elizabeth] died this afternoon [September 8, 2022]) <https://www.royal.uk/announcement-death-queen> Wikipedia, April 15, 2024 (House of Windsor) Chinese version (溫莎王朝 = Wensha wang chao) Korean version (윈저가 = Winjŏga) Greek version (Οίκος του Ουίνδσορ = Oikos tou Ouindsor) Yiddish version (ווינדזאר הויז = Ṿindzor hoyz) Hebrew version (בית וינדזור = Bet Ṿindzor) |
| Associated language | eng |
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