prince phillip’s family were greek royalty and were dethroned
prince phillip took the name Mountbatten from Lord Mountbatten
so all the names are made up
Windsor and Mountbatten
Mountbatten was originally Battenberg, changed when they were at war with Germany.
There are stil Mountbattens all over Europe.
Lord Mountbatten was Philip’s uncle. The family name was originally Battenberg. “Berg” is German for “mountain,” so they de-Germanized it by changing “Battenberg” to “Mountbatten”.
Wasn’t their name Battenburg? They changed it to Mountbatten to make it sound less German and more English?
Yes, I know Philip was Greek, but...
Philip was born in Greece, into the Greek and Danish royal families; his family was exiled from the country when he was eighteen months old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh
The Greek royal family (Greek: Ελληνική Βασιλική Οικογένεια) is a branch of the Danish royal family, itself a branch of the House of Glücksburg, that reigned in Greece from 1863 to 1924 and again from 1935 to 1973. Its first monarch was George I, the second son of King Christian IX of Denmark.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_royal_family
There was no Greek royal family of historic standing, since Greece was ruled by the Ottomans. So some of the inbred breeding stock of Northern Europe was imported to start it off.