I do hope the book doesn't shy away with the questionable German past of the family branch. Mountbatten is a made-up name after all. Or, as George V quickly declared in 1917 before WW I ended since anti-German sentiment ran uh...high shall we say? "Now, therefore, We, out of Our Royal Will and Authority, do hereby declare and announce that as from the date of this Our Royal Proclamation Our House and Family shall be styled and known as the House and Family of Windsor, and that all the descendants in the male line of Our said Grandmother Queen Victoria who are subjects of these Realms, other than female descendants who may marry or may have married, shall bear the said Name of Windsor. And do hereby further declare and announce that We for Ourselves and for and on behalf of Our descendants and all other the descendants of Our said Grandmother Queen Victoria who are subjects of these Realms, relinquish and enjoin the discontinuance of the use of the Degrees, Styles, Dignities, Titles and Honours of Dukes and Duchesses of Saxony and Princes and Princesses of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and all other German Degrees, Styles, Dignities. Titles, Honours and Appellations to Us or to them heretofore belonging or appertaining." - boy oh boy...
It does mention Battenberg which is German for Mountbatten, and how the family was treated as a pariah during WW1 because of their last name. It also discusses how Edwina who was of Jewish ancestry made valiant efforts to save Jews from being murdered during the Holocaust
I do hope the book doesn't shy away with the questionable German past of the family branch. Mountbatten is a made-up name after all. Or, as George V quickly declared in 1917 before WW I ended since anti-German sentiment ran uh...high shall we say? "Now, therefore, We, out of Our Royal Will and Authority, do hereby declare and announce that as from the date of this Our Royal Proclamation Our House and Family shall be styled and known as the House and Family of Windsor, and that all the descendants in the male line of Our said Grandmother Queen Victoria who are subjects of these Realms, other than female descendants who may marry or may have married, shall bear the said Name of Windsor. And do hereby further declare and announce that We for Ourselves and for and on behalf of Our descendants and all other the descendants of Our said Grandmother Queen Victoria who are subjects of these Realms, relinquish and enjoin the discontinuance of the use of the Degrees, Styles, Dignities, Titles and Honours of Dukes and Duchesses of Saxony and Princes and Princesses of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and all other German Degrees, Styles, Dignities. Titles, Honours and Appellations to Us or to them heretofore belonging or appertaining." - boy oh boy...
It does mention Battenberg which is German for Mountbatten, and how the family was treated as a pariah during WW1 because of their last name. It also discusses how Edwina who was of Jewish ancestry made valiant efforts to save Jews from being murdered during the Holocaust