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It’s how the British royal family ended up with the family name Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, …at least until they changed it to Windsor because being conspicuously German was not a good look in Britain during the early 20th century.

It's even worse than that, specifically. In 1917 during WWI, Germany started bombing London and other civilian centers primarily using bombers manufactured by Gothaer Waggonfabrik AG, popularly known as "Gothas". Having the name of the thing dropping bombs on your people literally in the name of your royal family is some hilariously bad PR.