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Forum Name: Our Witches at War/Gallian Gothic
Topic ID: 27
Message ID: 22
#22, RE: (OWaW) New Witch Profiles
Posted by Mister Fnord on Jan-26-15 at 08:55 PM
In response to message #19
>>Thought it might be Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (or the Strike Witches
>>equivalent) considering there's no WWI to drive changing the name.
>
>Hmm, that hadn't occurred to me; I had forgotten that that was the
>reason for changing the name of the house. On the other hand, if
>she's trying to be non-ostentatious, signing the personnel book as
>"Elizabeth A.M. Saxe-Coburg-Gotha" doesn't really do that. :)

This is very true, though it beats signing in as "Prince Louis of Battenberg" everywhere. ;)

(Been reading a lot of WWI history lately.)

> So
>maybe "Windsor" is in fact her coinage in that universe, chosen
>off the cuff as her joinin'-the-RAF alias. (Joking about it with
>friends later, she notes that she had her pick of the various royal
>residences, and could just as easily have punted and become Elizabeth
>Hamptoncourt. :)

By such things is history made. :)

--
Mr. Fnord
"I might have chosen Marlborough, but decided against it. The Prime Minister would have been utterly insufferable had I done so."