The official designation of the British royal family since 1917. Anti‐German feeling during World War I was sufficiently strong for George V to feel that it would be an appropriate gesture to remove all references to the German titles of Saxe‐Coburg, derived originally from the marriage of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert of Saxe‐Coburg‐Gotha. ‘Windsor’ was adopted because Windsor Castle, Berkshire, has long been a home of British monarchs.