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Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

American  
[saks-koh-burg-goh-thuh] / ˈsæksˈkoʊ bɜrgˈgoʊ θə /

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 British  
/ 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

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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.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2022

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

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2022

Come on, Frau Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, it’s time for you to have breakfast with Herr Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2014

In 1840, she married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha with whom she had nine children.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2011

His powerful advocacy of this idea in his Grenzboten gained him the friendship of the duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, whose neighbour he had become, on acquiring the estate of Siebleben near Gotha.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various