 Most notable, though not a legal point, was his advocacy for the Royal Family to adopt Prince Philip's surname of Mountbatten in lieu of Windsor, in order that any royal children born after Queen Elizabeth II's accession in 1952 would not bear their mother’s pre-marriage surname, which he termed "the Badge of Bastardy".Edward Iwi was born on 28 November 1904 to a Jewish family in London and educated at John Bright Grammar School, Llandudno, north Wales.In 1913 his widowed mother married Morris Wartski.