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Originally Posted by Hussar100
Sorry to be a bit pedantic mate but Aunty Betty doesn't belong to the House of Saxe-Coburg Gotha. When she married Phil the Greek there was a choice to be made and she chose to proclaim herself and all her descendants to be of the House of Windsor instead of the House of Mountbatten (or House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg if you prefer). Agnatic members of the royal family are known as Mountbatten-Windsor.
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I don't know if it's supposed to be clever but I find the use of the labels Aunty Betty and Phil the Greek extremely distasteful and am amazed that no-one else has remarked on it. To most people who have served in HM Forces she is and always will be Queen Elizabeth II and he will be The Duke of Edinburgh and incidentally my corps' Colonel in Chief.
The Royal family will remain the House of Windsor until such time as there is no blood link to Georg V or the reigning monarch decides differently..