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** [[Creator/OonaChaplin Oona Castilla Chaplin]] is the daughter of Patricio Castilla and Geraldine Chaplin, and is known professionally as Oona Chaplin.

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* Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, was born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, a paternal grandson of George I, King of the Hellenes. Before marrying the future Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethII in 1947, he became a naturalized, non-royal British citizen, for which he needed a last name. The problem? The Greek royal family [[OnlyOneName doesn't actually have one]] (the closest would be the royal Danish name of [[OverlyLongName Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg]], which would have completely defeated any attempt at becoming 'more British')[[note]]Alternatively, it was proposed that Philip could have used "Oldcastle", which was the Anglicization of the House of Glucksburg's parent house, the House of Oldenburg[[/note]]. Eventually, it was decided Philip would use the name his mother's English (well, Anglicized German) family had adopted -- Mountbatten (a "translation" of the original family name "Battenberg"). Interestingly, his mother never used the surname herself as she had already married into the Greek Royal Family and was titled accordingly by the time her birth family anglicized their name during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.

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* Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, was born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, a paternal grandson of George I, King of the Hellenes. Before marrying the future Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethII in 1947, he became a naturalized, non-royal British citizen, for which he needed a last name. The problem? The Greek royal family [[OnlyOneName doesn't actually have one]] (the closest would be the royal Danish name of [[OverlyLongName Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg]], which in addition to being overly long would have completely defeated any attempt at becoming 'more British')[[note]]Alternatively, it was proposed that Philip could have used "Oldcastle", which was the Anglicization of the House of Glucksburg's parent house, the House of Oldenburg[[/note]]. Eventually, it was decided Philip would use the name his mother's English (well, Anglicized German) family had adopted -- Mountbatten (a "translation" of the original family name "Battenberg"). Interestingly, his mother never used the surname herself as she had already married into the Greek Royal Family and was titled accordingly by the time her birth family anglicized their name during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.

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