Last name?

[OldNewYork]

“For some reason I thought they were from South Africa. Why did I think that? “

Diana’s brother had moved to South Africa and was often outspoken after her death. I think his name was Mark Spenser. I could be wrong on the spelling too.

[LibertarianLiz]

William

[BenKenobi]

She was proud of her heritage as an Englishwoman. She’s got lineage all the way back to Edward III.

[BenKenobi]

Danish on his fathers side, and German on his mothers, but he’s Greek because he was born there. So that would make William 5/8ths English, 1/4 German and 1/8th Danish.

[BenKenobi]

Say we go back to 1/16ths.

George I of Greece (Danish, Born Copenhagen)
Olga of Russia (Russian, born Polotsk)
-Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (Danish/Russian)
Prince Louis of Battenberg (German, born Graz)
Princess Victoria of Hesse (English, born Windsor Castle)
-Princess Mary of Battenberg (German/English)
—Prince Philip (Danish/Russian/German/English
King George V (English, born in London)
Mary of Teck (English, born in London)
-King George VI (English)
Claude Bowles-Lyon (English, born in London)
Cecilia Cavendish (English, born in London
-Elizabeth Bowles-Lyon (English)
—Queen Elizabeth II (English)
-—Charles, Prince of Wales (Danish/Russian/German/English/English/English/English/English)
Charles Spencer 6th Earl Spencer (English)
Margaret Baring of Revelstoke (English)
-Albert Spencer 7th Earl Spencer (English)
James, Marquess of Hamilton (English)
Rosalind Bingham of Lucan (English)
-Cynthia Hamilton
—John Spencer 8th Earl Spencer (English)
James Roche 3rd Baron Fermoy (English)
Elizabeth Boothby (English)
-Maurice Roche 4th Baron Fermoy
Colonel Gill (English)
Ruth Gill (English)
-Ruth Silvia Gill
—Francis Roche
-—Lady Diana Spencer (English)
——William (13/16ths English, 1/16th Danish, 1/16th Russian, 1/16th German)

[brytlea]

Ok, that’s why that was filed away in my head. Thanks.

[brytlea]

Perhaps we need to do a DNA test!

[redhead]

"If the Queen dies, does Charles become King? Does that make Fergie the new Queen? If Charles dies and Fergie is left the Queen, when will William get to the throne? And when and if he does, does that make his new bride the Queen...if so, what happens to Fergie?"

Charles is married to Camilla. She would be queen, but only while he lived. At his death, William becomes king. Camilla would be at best, the royal stepmother (whatever title that would be). The only time a royal spouse becomes monarch is when the reigning monarch dies without blood heirs, or if the spouse is also a king or queen in their own right, in which case they would be the new monarch.

[La Enchiladita]

The Windsor family is that family any royal that not in direct line of throne is allow to used both Mountbatten Windsor family name combine

I think you're on to something. In fact, you are right!! And you were first to get it. Full name: William Arthur Philip Louis Mountbatten-Windsor

Hurrah!!

[kabumpo]

And if a Chinese person were born in Athens and then went to live in London, where he subsquently had children, would they be part Greek? If course not.

[BenKenobi]

Just saying, based on where they were born, he’s 13/16th English going back 4 generations.

The further back you go, the more he’s English, simply because the Queen Mom and Diana are completely English.

I could put it back one more, but it really won’t help you because that’s getting back to Edward VI.

Yes, he’s part German, but he’s way more English than German.

[Melas]

Camilla would be at best, the royal stepmother (whatever title that would be).

Queen Dowager.

[ThomasThomas]

I has occurred to me now and on former occasions minds that don’t give are crap are constipated and also mush be full of it. Whoops did I say that?

[Melas]

You're wrong my friend. Everything you're saying would be true if the name hadn't been changed by decree. As surely as my future offspring (which there are none) would be known as Snicklefritz if I legally changed my name to such, this particular house became the House of Windsor when George V decreed it so.

[BenKenobi]

She can call herself the Queen of England, it doesn’t make it so. :)

[Melas]

Lol, no, that would not make it so, although it remains so. Point was and is, the name was legally changed under their laws. As an aside, I’d like to see the look on a judge’s face if I tried to change my simple 5 letter surname to Snicklefritz.

[BenKenobi]

I’m sorry for using that terrible pun. Just couldn’t resist.

[allmendream]

George I King of England was of the house of Hanover.

King Edward VII was the son of Queen Victoria and he was of the House of Saxe-Coburg Gotha (from his father Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg Gotha).

The royal family of England went by the name of Saxe-Coburg Gotha until right before the start of the first World War. Anti-German sentiment lead the royal family under king George V to change their name to “Windsor” in 1917.

This led the Kaiser of Germany (his cousin) to quip that “I look forward to seeing the play “The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg Gotha”.”