KING VISITS HIS COUSINS29 Mar 2023 23:13
"On this day 13th June in 1917 the deadliest attack on London during WWI took place resulting in 162 fatalities and 432 injuries.
Upper North Street School in Poplar, London was hit by a bomb from a Gotha bomber.
18 schoolchildren, mostly under six years of age died while upwards of forty more were injured by this the first attack on London by fixed-wing bombers,
The killing was to have consequences that Squadron Commander Hauptmann Ernst Brandenberg could not have imagined as he was decorated with the Pour le Merite, Germany's highest military honour.
In 1901, following the death of Queen Victoria, the royal house had taken the Germanic surname of her consort Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
In England the connection between the 'Gotha GV' fixed-wing bomber and the name Saxe-Coburg-Gotha did not go unnoticed.
With German xenophobia at fever point, King George V changed the royal family's name to the very English sounding House of Windsor."
https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/upper-north-street-school-a-bombing-that-changed-the-royal-familys-name/