House of Windsor

House of Windsor

The House of Windsor is the Royal House of the Commonwealth realm, including the UK. It was founded by King George V in 1917 when he changed his family name from German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor in English due to anti-German feeling in the United Kingdom during World War i. There are five Windsor monarchs date.

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