Gunnison Valley News | 1919-05-16 | Page 5 | Royal Family Names

Royal Family Names. Members of the royal families have no surname that is, no family name such as ordinary people are known by There is a good deal of discussion on the subject and Mr. Coknyne. an authority, au-thority, says that the prevailing idea tha the family name of the house of Hanover, to which Queen Victoria belonged, be-longed, was Guelph, mny be dismissed as absurd, that having been the Christian Chris-tian name of a medieval duke of Bavaria, Ba-varia, whose sister in 1040 married the marquess of Este, and it Is from Uiat couple that the house of Hanover descended. Hence d'Este comes nearest near-est to being the maiden name of Queen Victoria.