[post_page_title]Royal babies didn’t used to have last names[/post_page_title]
Fun fact: until the early 20th century, royal babies didn’t have a last name at all. Instead, they’d be known by their father’s title. For example, when Prince William was in the military, he was known as “William Wales,” after his father Charles, the Prince of Wales. Similarly, William’s eldest son George is called “George Cambridge” in school, since his father’s the Duke of Cambridge.
So why is Archie’s surname Mountbatten-Windsor? Well, in 1960 the Queen and Prince Philip agreed that descendants of theirs who don’t carry other titles will have the last name Mountbatten-Windsor, after Philip’s surname and the Queen’s royal house, respectively.
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