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Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip have been married for more than 70 years. However, their relationship would not always have been happy. According to the 2012 book "Elizabeth the Queen" by the royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith, their marriage was shaken by a family quarrel that began when the Queen ascended the throne in 1952 and lasted almost 10 years.
On the death of Elizabeth's father, King George VI, the Duke of Edinburgh wanted his royal children to take his last name, Mountbatten.
However, former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Elizabeth's grandmother, Queen Mary and the Queen Mother, were firmly convinced that the royal family name was to remain in Windsor.
The queen sided on their side and rejected the wish of her husband.
On April 9, 1952, the monarch made a public statement and confirmed that "his children will be called and called the house and family of Windsor".
According to information of the time, Prince Philip would have been "deeply hurt" and told his friends that he felt "like a bloody amoeba because he was" the only man in the country not to to be allowed to give his name to his own children ".
According to the biography, Earl Mountbatten, the duke's uncle, believed that the "delay" of 10 years in the couple's having other children after Princess Anne was the result of the Duke's anger .
In 1960, when the queen was very pregnant with Andrew, she decided to visit former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, believing that she needed to "revisit" the issue of the family name, which "irritated her husband since 1952 ".
Ms. Bedell Smith quotes from the book an entry from Mr. Macmillan's journal in which he wrote: "The Queen only wishes (rightly) to do something to please her husband – with whom she is desperately in love. What annoys me, it is the almost brutal attitude of the prince with regard to the queen in all that. "
He added, "I will never forget what she told me to Sandringham."
Mr. Macmillan then referred the problem to his deputy, Rab Butler.
A compromise was finally reached on February 8, 1960, just 11 days before Prince Andrew's birth.
The Privy Council declared that the Queen's descendants, other than those bearing the style of Royal Highness and bearing the title of Prince or Princess, or the female descendants who marry, would be called Mountbatten-Windsor.
At the wedding of Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones in 1999, the Queen decided that their children should not wear the title of Her Royal Highness.
As a result, the birth of their daughter in 2003 marked the first emergence of the Mountbatten-Windsor family name.
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