Whats all this about the “House of Windsor” – UK royal family being German black nobility?
I’m always a bit bemused that people are surprised to find that royalty is of mixed blood. Royal families intermarry with other royal families, and pure undiluted ‘Britishness’ has never been the criteria for someone inheriting the throne (indeed few people in this country can possibly be ‘pure’ anything, since many different people have settled here). Every monarch in this country has been born and raised here going back to George III, and I really think that the fact that they have German ancestry is neither here nor there. I doubt if there is any royal family anywhere that doesn’t have a great deal of foreign blood in them, that’s the nature of royalty.
Queen Elizabeth’s ancestors: 2 of 2 parents were born in Britian. 4 of 4 grandparents were born in Britain 5 of 8 great grandparents were born in Britain. 10 of 16 great great grandparents were born in Britain. ——————- The other three great grandparents were born in Croatia, Denmark and Germany. ——————- Of the other 6 gg grandparents, four were born in Germany, but one of them lived in Denmark from the age of 3. The last two were born in Hungary and Denmark (actually he was the King of Denmark). ====================== So out of 30 people in 4 generations, 21 were born in Britain and only 5 were born in Germany. However, the family name is German because of Prince Albert. ———————— Victoria did not like the name Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The family names kept changing as the small duchies changed hands. This name only goes back to 1825. She had her college of heralds trace the oldest name of her husband that they could find. The name they came up with was
