The current royal family is part of the House of Windsor, which was the name chosen for the members of the House of Saxe-Coberg and Gotha during WWI, when anti-German sentiment was high.
The first official royal the House of Windsor after his father changed the family name to combat unrest during WWI and remains the shortest reigning monarch of the UK, as unlike Edward V, he was actually coronated and ruled independently.
As the second son of king George V, no one ever thought that the timid Prince Albert, known as Bertie to his friends would be thrust into the spotlight. However, after his brother Edward VIII abdicated, Bertie ascended the throne ruling as George VI.
Born in Mayfair as the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth), Elizabeth has been in the public eye since 1926 and is the first British monarch to have reached her Platinum Jubilee.
Charles III is the oldest person to have assumed the British throne, being crowned at 73, a record previously held by William IV. Following the death of his mother, Elizabeth II, Britain’s only monarch to have reached their Platinum Jubilee.
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