• AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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    9 months ago

    Queen Victoria is from the House of Hanover and Prince Albert is from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The British royal family changed their house to Windsor during WWI because the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha sounded too German.

    If you're going by just family ancestry, Charles III is mostly German. Here's me after wasting time on Wikipedia:

    Maternal grandfather's grandparents:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VII: Anglicized German

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_of_Denmark: Danish

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis,_Duke_of_Teck: Austrian

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Mary_Adelaide_of_Cambridge: German

    Maternal grandmother's grandparents:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Bowes-Lyon,_13th_Earl_of_Strathmore_and_Kinghorne: English

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Bowes-Lyon,_Countess_of_Strathmore_and_Kinghorne: English

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cavendish-Bentinck_(priest): English

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_Cavendish-Bentinck: English

    Paternal grandfather's grandparents:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_IX_of_Denmark: Danish

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_of_Hesse-Kassel: German

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Konstantin_Nikolayevich_of_Russia: Russian Romanov, but he had 3 German grandparents, so his ancestry is mostly German

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Alexandra_of_Saxe-Altenburg: German

    Paternal grandmother's grandparents:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Alexander_of_Hesse_and_by_Rhine: German

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia,_Princess_of_Battenberg: Pole of German descent

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_IV%252C_Grand_Duke_of_Hesse: German

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Alice_of_the_United_Kingdom: German

    • ohitsbreadley@discuss.tchncs.de
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      9 months ago

      Thank you for the hardcore wiki linking - sincerely, I appreciate the labor you put into this reply.

      C3 is a certified Deutsch.

      Wild that they could just... Change their house like that. "Oh all that family lineage and history, no, no the name sounds quite too much like those jerries - the peasants won't like it much - what now? yes yes, Windsor we are, always have been, chip cheerio - get in the trench my good chap, and fight my former brethren, I mean those awful germans."