Editing House of Hanover (section)

=== Claimants ===

The later heads of the House of Hanover have been:
* [[George V of Hanover|George V]] (1866–1878)
* [[Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover]], 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (1878–1923)
* [[Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick]] (1923–1953), son of the previous
* [[Ernest Augustus, Prince of Hanover (1914–1987)|Ernest Augustus, Prince of Hanover]] (1953–1987)
* [[Prince Ernst August of Hanover (born 1954)|Ernest Augustus, Prince of Hanover]] (1987–present)
** [[Prince Ernst August of Hanover (born 1983)|Ernest Augustus, Hereditary Prince of Hanover]] ([[heir apparent]])

The family has been resident in Austria since 1866 and thus took on Austrian nationality besides their German and British. Since the later king [[Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover|Ernest Augustus]] had been created [[Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale]] and [[Earl of Armagh]] by his father [[George III of the United Kingdom|George III]] in 1799, these British peerages were inherited by his descendants. In 1914 the title of a [[Prince of Great Britain and Ireland]] was additionally granted to the members of the house by King [[George V of the United Kingdom|George V]]. These peerages and titles however were suspended under the [[Titles Deprivation Act 1917]].{{NoteTag|Privately however the British Royal Family (of the [[House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]], alias [[House of Windsor]]) continued to call their German branch ''the Cumberlands'', for instance when [[Edward VIII]] described his visit to the family in Gmunden in a letter to his mother in 1937.}} However, the title ''Royal Prince of Great Britain and Ireland'' had been entered into the family's German passports, together with the German titles, in 1914. After the [[German Revolution of 1918–19]], with the abolishment of nobility's privileges,{{NoteTag|In 1919 [[royal family|royalty]] and [[nobility]] lost their privileges as such in Germany, hereditary titles thereafter being legally retained only as part of the surname, according to [http://www.zum.de/psm/weimar/weimar_vve.php#First_Chapter_:_The_Individual Article 109] the [[Weimar Constitution]].}} titles officially became parts of the last name. So, curiously, the British prince's title is still part of the family's last name in their German passports, while it is no longer mentioned in their British documents.<ref>{{Cite web |title=In der Prinzenrolle |url=http://www.haz.de/Hannover/Aus-der-Stadt/Uebersicht/Exklusiv-Hannovers-Prinz-Ernst-August-im-HAZ-Interview |website=HAZ – Hannoversche Allgemeine |access-date=22 January 2018 |archive-date=31 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190831060428/http://www.haz.de/Hannover/Aus-der-Stadt/Uebersicht/Exklusiv-Hannovers-Prinz-Ernst-August-im-HAZ-Interview |url-status=live }}</ref>

On 29 August 1931, [[Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick]], as head of the House of Hanover, declared the formal resumption, for himself and his dynastic descendants, of use of his former British princely title as a secondary [[pretender|title of pretense]], which style, "Royal Prince of Great Britain and Ireland", his grandson, the current head of the house, also called [[Prince Ernst August of Hanover (born 1954)|Ernest Augustus]], continues to claim.<ref>[http://www.welfen.de/each.htm Ernst August (geb.1954) Prinz von Hannover] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121222325/http://www.welfen.de/each.htm |date=21 January 2021 }} at welfen.de {{in lang|de}}</ref> He has the right to petition under the [[Titles Deprivation Act 1917]] for the restoration of his ancestors' suspended British peerages ''Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale'' and ''Earl of Armagh'', but he has not done so. His father, another [[Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover (1914–1987)|Ernest Augustus]], did, however, successfully claim British nationality after World War II by virtue of a hitherto overlooked (and since repealed) provision of the [[Sophia Naturalization Act 1705]].<ref>''Attorney-General v HRH Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover'' [1957] 1 All ER 49</ref> According to the decision taken by a court of the [[House of Lords]], all family members bear the last name ''[[House of Guelph|Guelph]]'' in the UK and are styled [[Royal Highness]]es in their documents.