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The term Royal House refers to the official designation and name of a royal family instead of surname.
Reigning European Souvereign Houses
Deposed European or American Souvereign Houses
- Austria: Habsburg-Lothringen, now
republic
- Bavaria: Wittelsbach, now
republic
- Brazil: Braganza (Bragança), now republic
- France: Bourbon (royal),
now republic
- Germany: Hohenzollern, now
republic
- Greece: Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, now republic
- Hungary: Habsburg-Lothringen, now
republic
- Italy: Savoy, now republic
- Portugal: Braganza (Bragança), now republic
- Romania: Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, now republic
- Russia: Romanov, now republic
- Serbia and Yugoslavia: Karadjordjevic, now republic
Other Reigning Souvereign Houses
Most Royal Families do not have surnames: those that have adopted them
rarely use them. They are referred to instead by their titles, often related to an area ruled or once ruled by that family. The
name of the Royal House is not a surname, just a way of identifying individuals.
The example where a Royal House has adopted a surname is the United
Kingdom. Britain's Royal House is the House of
Windsor. However, following a decision by Queen Elizabeth II, descendants of Her Majesty and her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, have a
different surname to that of the Royal House. It combines the surnames of both of their parents, namely
Mountbatten-Windsor. Similarly, though the British
Royal House name under Queen Victoria
and King Edward VII was
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the personal surname of Victoria's descendants was Wettin. In 1917, both the Royal House name and surname were changed to Windsor.
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