Are the British Royal Family all Greeks and Germans?

Question

Are the British Royal Family all Greeks and Germans?

Answer 1

Yes more or less -Saxe Coburg Gotha is their real last name

Windsor is a fake last name they took from the Castle

They are  -  Germans

The House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was formerly the Royal House of several European monarchies, and branches currently reign in Belgium through the descendants of Leopold I, and in the United Kingdom and its associated Commonwealth realms through the descendants of Prince Albert. In the United Kingdom, King George V changed the name from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the House of Windsor in 1917. The House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha is a line of the Saxon House of Wettin.

PRINCE PHILLIP husband to the Queen = Originally a royal Prince of Greece and Denmark, Prince Philip renounced these titles shortly before his marriage. At the time of his engagement he was known as Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten. On 20 November 1947, he married Princess Elizabeth, the heiress presumptive to King George VI. Prince Philip is a member of the Danish-German House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg... which includes the royal houses of Denmark and Norway and the deposed royal house of Greece

PS Diana was a bit more "English" than the royal family.

Answer 2

Deutsche!  Their name is really Battenberg.

Answer 3

No u might even be apart of that u never know.

Answer 4

No.

The late Queen mother was Scottish by birth.

Answer 5

Nope, not the current ones anyway, the very fact that they speak english and have an english accent means they were born and brought up in Britain

Answer 6

No entirely. The current British royal family are descendants from a combination of many European royal houses including the English, French, Danish, Scottish, Greeks and Germans. However, it is true that the House of Windsor (changed from Wettin during WWI) are German descendants from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha line of the House of Wettin (German Royal House). However, the Queen was technically half Scottish through her mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.

The Queen married her second cousin once removed Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, so their children are more or less a mix of Scottish, Greek, Danish and German. However, their children all married English/Scottish commoners and aristocrats making the Queen's grandchildren a mix of different European heritages. Therefore, it is incorrect to assume that the British royal family are all "Greeks and Germans."

Answer 7

YES and they rule us //strange isn't it

Answer 8

The simple answer is:

Queen Elizabeth's father was of German descent.  Her mother was Scottish.   The queen then married a Prince of Greece who was descended from  Germano-Danish family.  

That brings you down to Prince Charles who married Diana who was descended from Norman blood and that gives you the mix of the younger royals.

Answer 9

Yes, the Royal Family's real name is not Windsor but Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.  This name came to the British Royal Family in 1840 with the marriage of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert, son of  Ernst, Duke of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha. Queen Victoria herself remained a member of the House of Hanover.

The only British monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was King Edward VII, who reigned for nine years at the beginning of the modern age in the early years of the twentieth century.

King George V replaced the German-sounding title with that of Windsor during the First World War. The name Saxe-Coburg-Gotha survived in other European monarchies, including the current Belgian Royal Family and the former monarchies of Portugal and Bulgaria.

The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philippos of Greece and Denmark) was originally a royal Prince of Greece and Denmark.  He renounced these titles shortly before his marriage. At the time of his engagement he was known as Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten. Prince Philip is a member of the Danish-German House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg... which includes the royal houses of Denmark and Norway and the deposed royal house of Greece.

The other contributor was right, the late Princess Diana was more English than the British Royal Family!!

Answer 10

Down-voted, and for what reason?

No. The Queen's mother's near ancestry was entirely British Isles in origin, making The Queen herself at least half. All of Elizabeth II's grandparents and six of her eight grandparents were born in the United Kingdom.

Also, the entire House of Windsor are not just renamed Saxe-Coburgs... Remember, the principle behind established houses is that the name passes in the male-line. The children and male-line grandchildren of the Queen also belong to the House of Windsor as it is defined in the UK but agnatically (meaning in the male line, father to son) they belong to the House of Oldenburg.

All of the Queen's grandchildren though have parents born in the UK and at least one parent of mostly ethnic British heritage.

Answer 11

Prince Philip isn't ethnic Greek--the Greeks actually get their kings from somewhere else.  He is Danish and German.  

The royal family line is German, but there have been many English and Scottish marriages into it.

Answer 12

All the royal Famillies in Europe are related but the ones in the UK are mainly German. They changed their name to windsor because of the war.

Answer 13

I don't know why Katya up there has so many thumbs downs! It's a good answer - but perhaps needs a bit clarifying about Prince Philip's Greekness.  He was indeed born a Greek Prince on the Greek island of Corfu, although his ancestry is not Greek (actually Danish and German).  That hasn't stopped him being known in the British press as 'Phil the Greek', an opprobrious nickname which still surfaces from time to time today.

Answer 14

No! Philip is more Danish than German,and has absolutely no Greek blood. The Queen is English.Her ancestry includes German(Queen Victoria was very proud of her German ancestry which was shared with other European royals),Danish,Scottish(her mother Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was a very proud Scotswoman).The current family,because of marriages can boast English ancestry(Spencer's,Rhys-Jones' and Fergusson's) and Irish(Fergusson's).