I was under the impression that the monarchy's power was predicated on their right to rule being divine, which could only be maintained by keeping their bloodline ~~inbred~~ pure.

Charles is German?

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Charles is German?

I wouldn't say he is German, but German dynasties have sit on the British throne since George I was crowned in 1714. Up till queen Victoria all monarchs belonged to the house of Hanover. Victoria married Albert of house Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and their son Edward VII was counted as the member of that dynasty. Edward's son George V changed their surname to "Windsor" in 1917.

And i imagine that the house of Saxony which part house Saxe-Coburg and Gotha is, is pretty inbred since basically every surviving european noble today is either part of it or closely related.

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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 7 points 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."

[–] Shepstr@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

Who did what now?