THE QUEEN’S NAME.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 135, 1 May 1880, Page 2

THE QUEEN’S NAME.

At ;i dinner in Loudon, the enversatirm lap.-ed, as it sometimes will lapse witli tin: l>.'st of hosts into questions hardly distinguishable from conundrum*. A celebrated historian was present, and \ put a question to him which I know has puzzled a great iliauy people at different times: " What is the surname of the Ifoyal Family ?" " Guolph, of course." Thiit is the usual answer, and it. was the historian's. I ventured to suggest that, although the Koyal Family are Gtielphs by descent, her Majesty's tnurriago with l'rinec Albert of Saxo-Coburg must have the effect which a marringo of a lady has in all other eases, and that the surname of the present houso must be the I'rinco Consort's, " Hut wiiai is tho surname of the Prince Consort's family P" Simple, but staggering. No ono knew. All guessed, and idl wero wrong. I happened to have looked up the subject u few m niths ago, so I knew the name was " Weltlu. Of course, no one had hoard it before. Every ono smiled at the horrible idon of the Gruolpllß being reduced to Wettius ! - Tho point was referred to Theodore Martin. "You lire cpiite right," Kalil the graceful biographer of tho I'rinee Consort, "Wetti* i« the family name of the Hottf* *j Saxony, t<) 'whom tho dominion "' Raxony en inn in tho vear U2O. Tim Km,; of Saxony and tho minor m-lnee* of tho houso mo. therefore, all Welti"''i or, in Guriuuii, WotUui-r."