Word: discardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King George V himself felt obliged to discard all such "German Degrees, Styles, Dignities, Titles, Honours and Appellations to Us" as the Dukes and Duchesses of Saxony and the Princes and Princesses of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. While the King became plain Windsor, Prince Louis of Battenberg became a Mountbatten (a literal translation of his German name). Until the day he died in 1921, he never forgot his humiliation. Nor did his second son, Dickie, who was a 14-year-old naval cadet at the time of his father's fall, and vowed to be First Sea Lord...