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With five emperors, eight kings, and four imperial dynasties rendered obsolete by the conflict, there was never a better time to emphasize that the newly minted House of Windsor--George V changed the family name from Saxe-Coburg und Gotha in 1917 to deflect anti-German sentiment--remained the unchanging keystone in the edifice of an empire upon which the sun never set. The