Elizabeth II<\/a>, 65 years ago when she set out the arrangements for the naming of her descendants as \u201cMountbatten-Windsor\u201d.<\/p>\nWhen asked about the absence of a hyphen, in reference to the Queen\u2019s decision in 1960, a Palace spokeswoman said at the time of the announcement confirming Andrew\u2019s loss of his titles: \u201cAndrew Mountbatten Windsor was the name agreed.\u201d<\/p>\n
It is understood the Palace has subsequently examined the 1960 Privy Council Declaration, which includes a hyphen, and will use a hyphen going forward.<\/p>\n
In 1960, Elizabeth II declared her direct descendants \u2013 other than those with the style of royal highness and the title of prince or princess \u2013 when they needed a surname would use Mountbatten-Windsor.<\/p>\n
Eight years earlier, after her accession in 1952, the Queen had decided that the royal family\u2019s surname would still be Windsor and not the Duke of Edinburgh\u2019s surname Mountbatten, much to Philip\u2019s annoyance.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just a bloody amoeba,\u201d Philip is said to have shouted, when learning his children would not bear his surname, complaining he was the only man in the country not allowed to do so.<\/p>\n
In the end, the Queen, in a gesture to her aggrieved husband, gave him a concession of a double barrelled surname joined by a hyphen \u2013 just days before their third child Andrew was born.<\/p>\n
The official declaration on February 8 1960 \u2013 ahead of Andrew\u2019s arrival on February 19 1960 \u2013 read: \u201cMy descendants other than descendants enjoying the style title or attribute of Royal Highness and the titular dignity of Prince or Princess and female descendants who marry and their descendants shall bear the name of Mountbatten-Windsor.\u201d<\/p>\n
It also currently appears written as Mountbatten-Windsor on the royal family\u2019s official website.<\/p>\n
Andrew was born a prince, but had this birthright title removed by the King because of his \u201cserious lapses of judgment\u201d over his association with convicted sex offender Epstein.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.independent.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email The disgraced Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor may have been formally stripped of his dukedom, his HRH and his princely title, but Buckingham Palace has handed him a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2151567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Andrew-gets-a-name-change-as-Palace-reinstates-hyphen-to.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2151566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2151568,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151566\/revisions\/2151568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2151567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}