Liverpool Riots of 1915. King Changes his Name.

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Who was George V? Why did he change the Royal Family’s name?
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On June 19, 1917, during the third year of World War I, Britain’s King George V orders the British royal family to dispense with the use of German titles and surnames, changing the surname of his own family, the decidedly Germanic Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, to Windsor.