Dutch surnames can even have the word OF (meaning or) between to familynames. Smith or Jones but than usually with fancier names often resulting from a marriage of a woman who was the heiress of one highly regarded family who married a man who stepped in her family's business or positions and thus married up.
Frau/Faulein Sophie Herzogin in Bayern.
Her Christian name Sophie and her familyname being Herzogin in Bayern.
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: In Germany the noble titles where not
: abolished and forbidden to use but became a
: part of the surname in 1919. So her name
: before her mariage was Sophie, Herzogin in
: Bayern. As for her style of Royal Highness
: she is referred with t at the official
: Website of the Princely Family.
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: I guess it's a tiny detail, but wasn't
: Sophie's name without a comma: Sophie
: Herzogin in Bayern?
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: Does any other countries than the
: Netherlands accept commas in surnames?
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