Editing Mountbatten-Windsor (section)

==Current use==
The British monarchy asserts that the name ''Mountbatten-Windsor'' is used by members of the royal family who do not have a surname, when a surname is required.<ref name="royal">{{cite web |title=The Royal Family name |date=3 April 2016 |url=https://www.royal.uk/royal-family-name |publisher=The British Monarchy |access-date=10 June 2018}}</ref> For example, [[Anne, Princess Royal]], and [[Prince Andrew, Duke of York]], children of Queen Elizabeth II, used the surname ''Mountbatten-Windsor'' in official marriage registry entries in 1973 and 1986 respectively.<ref>Philip Ziegler, ''Mountbatten: The Official Biography'', 1985, p.682</ref> Likewise, [[William, Prince of Wales]], used the name when filing a French lawsuit related to the topless pictures of [[Catherine, Princess of Wales|his wife]] published by the French magazine ''[[Closer (magazine)|Closer]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/william-and-kate-win-legal-battle--but-lose-war-to-keep-topless-photos-under-wraps-8153383.html|title=William and Kate win legal battle – but lose war to keep topless photos under wraps|last=Lichfield|first=John|date=19 September 2012|work=The Independent|access-date=28 February 2017}}</ref>

At the time of the 1960 declaration, palace officials claimed in private communications that it created a hidden surname that would emerge several generations later when some of Queen Elizabeth II's descendants were further removed from the throne.<ref>http://www.heraldica.org/topics/britain/TNA/HO_290_72.htm (see, in particular, the article by Edward F. Iwi).</ref> On the [[wedding of Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones]] in 1999, the Queen decided, with their agreement, that any of their future children should not be styled His or Her [[Royal Highness]].<ref>Even though such children would theoretically be a Prince or Princess under the 1917 letters patent which changed the name of the Royal House to Windsor.</ref> Consequently, the birth of their daughter in 2003 marked the first emergence of the Mountbatten-Windsor surname. Their daughter was named Louise Alice Elizabeth Mary Mountbatten-Windsor, and she goes by the title of [[Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor]], her father being the [[Duke of Edinburgh]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1447876/Lady-Louise-heralds-return-for-Mountbattens.html|title=Lady Louise heralds return for Mountbattens|date=27 November 2003|work=The Telegraph}}</ref>

Mountbatten-Windsor differs from the official name of the [[British royal family]], which remains the [[House of Windsor]].<ref name="royal"/> In accordance with law and custom in the English-speaking world, the surname ''Mountbatten-Windsor'' belongs to all male-line descendants of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, and is used by them if and when a surname is needed. In contrast, male-line descendants of [[King George V]], the first monarch of the House of Windsor, use ''Windsor'' as their surname if and when a surname is needed, as for example [[Lady Davina Windsor]] and [[Lady Marina Windsor]], respectively descended from George V's sons [[Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester]] and [[Prince George, Duke of Kent]]. (George V's other sons have no male-line descendants: [[George VI|King George VI]] had only daughters while [[King Edward VIII]] had no issue and [[Prince John of the United Kingdom|Prince John]] was unmarried.) After the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was renamed Windsor, other descendants of [[Queen Victoria]] and [[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Albert]] could also use the name Windsor, as for example, [[Alastair Arthur Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn]], grandson of their son [[Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn]]. None do so today, however, because the only male line (apart from the descendants of King George V) is through [[Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]], whose descendants use the surname Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (English) or von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (German).