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Disgraced Andrew insists royal staff call him 'sir' and fetch beer (lemmy.ca)

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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I think it's particularly hilarious that for all the talk of tradition, the house of "Windsor" was a name chosen during WWI, barely more than a century ago. The original name was "Saxe-Coburg and Gotha", but somewhat awkwardly German bombers built by Gothaer Waggonfabrik and popularly known as "Gothas" happened to be dropping explosives on London.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

why did they not go with saxe-cokburg?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

To answer your query specifically, Saxe-Cokburg would have been more honest for a bunch of Anglo-Saxons

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 14 hours ago

on hindsite I wish I had used an x but then again it would duplicative of saxe. still. can't have enough x.