Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

[saks-koh-burg-goh-thuh]

noun

1. a member of the present British royal family, from the establishment of the house in 1901 until 1917 when the family name was changed to Windsor.

2. Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emanuel, Prince of. Albert, Prince.

3. a former duchy in central Germany.

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

/ sæksˈkəʊbɜːɡˈɡəʊθə /

noun

1. the ruling house of the former German duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (until 1918) and the name of the British royal family (1901–17) through Prince Albert

Example Sentences

Sensing the unpopularity of all things German, the royal family became the House of Windsor by a proclamation of King George V, replacing the historic name of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

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It was George V who shrewdly jettisoned the royal family's Germanic surname of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in 1917.

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George literally rebranded his family during World War I when the surname Saxe-Coburg-Gotha seemed too embarrassingly Teutonic.

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Earlier in October, the Brussels Court of Appeal ruled that she had the right to her father’s surname and should be known officially as Delphine of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, princess of Belgium.

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The House of Windsor is a century old — renamed from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha by George V in July 1917.

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