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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
Well, many of whom you listed have been incorporated into what we now know as "English" (Saxons, Britons, Angles, etc). That's NOT the same as former Hapsburg Germans ruling England and the Royals having to change their (German) surnames during WWI to the made up 'Windsors' so their "people" wouldn't revolt at having German rulers whilst at war with Germany. So yeah, not the same at all.
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Hapsburgs became extinct (18th century) because of inbreeding, so these guys and girls can't be Hapsburgs. And whatever they are, they are now incorporated to be British.
EDITOOO: I don't know where did you get the Hapsburgs.
"With Elizabeth's accession, it seemed probable that the royal house would bear her husband's name, becoming the House of Mountbatten, in line with the custom of a wife taking her husband's surname on marriage. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Elizabeth's grandmother, Queen Mary, favoured the retention of the House of Windsor, and so on 9 April 1952 Elizabeth issued a declaration that Windsor would continue to be the name of the royal house. The Duke complained, "I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his own children."[57] In 1960, after the death of Queen Mary in 1953 and the resignation of Churchill in 1955, the surname Mountbatten-Windsor was adopted for Philip and Elizabeth's male-line descendants who do not carry royal titles."
"The House of Windsor is the royal house of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. It was founded by King George V by royal proclamation on 17 July 1917, when he changed the name of the British Royal Family from the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (a branch of the House of Wettin) to the English Windsor, due to the anti-German sentiment in the British Empire during World War I.[1] The most prominent member of the House of Windsor is its head, Queen Elizabeth II, who is the reigning monarch of 16 Commonwealth realms."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II