Do you consider the British Royal family to be German ?

Question

And does the fact that they have strong links to the n***s bother you???? It should - you are probably more entitled to the throne than they are if your family are true Brits!!!

Answer 1

With that logic, then maybe an American Indian should be the president of the US just out of "entitlement". Read your history a bit more!

Answer 2

You can cherry-pick your facts all you want.  The fact is the queen and her children were all born and raised in Britain.  So were her parents.  So were some of her grandparents and great grandparents.  So what if the previous family name was German.  It dates back to Victoria and Albert, and Albert was German.  That wedding happened 150 years ago!!!  just how long does a family have to be in Britian before you consider it British?

My mother is a geneologist.  I know when my Swedish relatives came to America (100 years ago), when my Dutch relatives came (almost 200 years ago), with my English relatives came (300 years ago).  Does any of this make me less American? No!

Answer 3

No Way! -Just LOOK at what they EAT !!! No self-respecting German Gene is gonna STAND for the Diet the Royal Family puts up with! They don't even drink BEER- for Heaven's Sake!  :0

Answer 4

You need to read more books than you have and learn to distinguish biased views.

Any one born in Britain is British. The current royal family began with the Hanover Royal House,who were German. They inherited the throne because they were PROTESTANT!No British descendant was Protestant,so the throne went to relatives.You would be surprised to know that royals of Europe married other royals of Europe constantly,so practicaly every born- royal is related to each other.

The last of the Hanovers was Victoria.Queen Victoria was born in Britain,at Kensington Palace in London. Although very proud of her German heritage,she was even more proud to be Queen Regnant of the United Kingdom.Her allegiance,and upon her orders,her family's allegiance,was to the United Kingdom.

Victoria married a German Prince.They had a dream of a united Europe,whose thrones would be occupied by family members.That's one reason why so many of their children married German relatives-to have more family on the thrones of Europe.But,unfortunately,her dreams were ruined by her grandson,Wilhelm.He started the first World War.

Her heir,Edward VII,married a Danish princess,Alexandra;Philip is a descendant of Alexandra. He is mostly Danish.His sisters married Germans,which was a bit of a problem.The Windsors aren't so fond of some of their German relatives,especially the Scottish-born Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, lived through two world wars started by the German government.

Victoria's daughter-in-law, Alexandra,wasn't very happy when her sister-in-law's German in-laws invaded a part of Denmark.Alexandra was quite upset and complained vehemently about it.Victoria told her that she understood why her daughter-in-law was upset,but that she was a BRITISH princess and her allegiance was with the United Kingdom.

Philip is from the Danish Royal House of Schlesweig-Holstein-

Sonderburgh-Glucksburg.

One of the Danish royal family's job was the throne of Greece.Philip has no Greek blood in him.He has no strong links to the n***s.He fought them in World War II. His allegiance is to his country;Philip thought it important enough to take on British citizenship,eventhough it really wasn't necessary. Philip had been a British Royal Highness since birth;under the Act of Settlement of 1701,British nationality was bestowed upon Sophia of Hanover and her descendants.Philip is a descendant.

The current Windsors are becoming more English as they marry non-royal British girls like Diana,Sophie,Sarah,the Duchess of Kent,and the like.And don't forget that the Queen Mother was very proud to be Scottish!

XENOPHOBIA is an ugly thing.

Answer 5

I consider them British

Answer 6

I guess it does bother me that they are n**i lovers but all the same, I consider them to be British 100%

Answer 7

No, of course they're not German!

Of course they have intermarried with other royal families over the centuries, because that's what royal families mostly did in the past, they tended to marry other royalty, and the German royal families were the main Protestant royalty available after Britain became a Protestant country.

The system of inheritance is not based on how 'British' the heir to the throne is, but where he stands in the line of succession.  All the monarchs we have had for the last 300 years have been born in this country.  that makes them British as far as I am concerned.  Are you saying that if a person who has any foreing blood in them is born in Britain, then  they are not british?  Where does that leave people born to immigrant parents then?

I think you would be very hard put to it to find anyone who hasn't got SOME foreign blood in them.  This little island of ours has been invaded by succeeding waves of foreigners, Romans, Saxons, vikings, Normans, we have absorbed them all.  Large numbers of Huguenot French came here in the 17th century.  More recently, many Asians and West Indians and Africans have settled here.  Are you saying that anyone who has a drop of blood of another nationality in their veins is not entitled to think of themselves as British?  I am frankly aghast at your xenophobia.

And I doubt that your 'true heir to the throne' is any more 'British' in the sense of being racially pure, than any other member of the royal family.  Racial purity has never been a requirement for royalty, only royal blood.  Your obsession with racial purity seems to me quite sinister and frankly unpleasant.

The German origins of our present royal family go back to King George I, who inherited the throne on the death of his cousin Queen Anne.  George I was neither any more nor less 'foreign' than the Stuart claimant to the throne, whose own mother was Italian, and whose grandmother was French, and great-grandmother Danish.  That's royalty for you.

Answer 8

No they are originally from Poland

Answer 9

Many people have German ancestry who are not German.

In the case of the Rotal Family, yes they have ties to Germany through their lineage, but they cast their lot in with Britain many years ago and have been stout Brits ever since.

My on dear old Nana told me many times of how greatly she admired the old Queen (the present Queen's mother) ~ at the beginning of WW2, the government wanted her and the Princesses to leave England and go to Canada for safety.

The Queen refused to leave London, saying that she would not go because other British mothers didn't have the same choice. She lived in London throughout the Blitz and went among the people regularly, on foot, through the worst hit areas, to share that time with the people, especially the women.

Don't know how much more loyal you have to be in this life, than risk your own and your children's lives for your country.

Cheers :-)

PS: brainstorm is right, the Royals have been marrying into the German line for a while, since George 1, but before that the married into the French aristocracy. Maybe they still would be, if the French hadn't put an end to the aristocracy themselves!

Answer 10

There are some very odd ducks in Prince Phillip's family but I would not impugn the Queen with the name "n**i."  Adolf Hitler described her late mother as "the most dangerous woman in Europe" because of her work in raising the morale of the British people during the Second World War. Princess Elizabeth and her sister Margaret were also very active in war work. Even though a large part of the Queen's ancestry is German it has been hundreds of years since the reign of the last monarch born on German soil, George II. And Elizabeth the Queen Mother was 100% British. Elizabeth II has every right to the throne, as does Prince Charles and Prince William.

Answer 11

We all know that they have links to the Germans but they are British. On the whole the royals have spent their lives in the UK and been shaped by our culture, That's British enough for me. Wee aren't like Americans who seem to link nationality with ancestors from generations back.

Answer 12

Your research is very good and there is no doubt that the main breeding source for the "British Royal Family" has been Germany for centuries.

The pattern was unexpectly broken when Edward VIII renounced the throne to marry an American ( he took the title of Duke of Windsor and was a notorious admirer of Hitler).

He was replaced with his brother Albert who became George VI and was already married to a women who was of Scots/Norman ancestry.

The link with German ancestry was re-established when the present Queen married Prince Philip but after that there semmed to be a shortage of suitable and willing candidates to marry Prince Charles

I can't think why.

He ended up marrying Lady Diana Spencer who was the first English person to marry a Monarch of England or heir to the throne since the Tudor dynasty..

Answer 13

the ciser was related to czar nicolis 2 of russia and the duke of orange becane georde the 1 of england

Answer 14

Just because you have German ancestry in no way means that you have any link to the n**i party. n**i does not mean German and German does not mean n**i. Are you saying that German Jews that escaped are n***s, that Albert Einstein was a n**i?? Learn your facts before you ask ridiculous questions.

Answer 15

LOL .....

sorry but the bulk of your question amuses me....

Consider being 16 .. haven't you ever had your photograph taken at a family function with people that you have nothing to do with ...???

and ALSO .. in 1937 ... MANY people around the world Admired Hitler for being a strong and powerful leader..VERY few people were aware of what was going on ... AND also many other nations were anti-semites .. so many of them if they heard the rumours re the treatment of the Jews.. they probably wouldn't have cared.

Henry Ford, George  Bush's grandfather, charles Lindenburg (SP) were all american supporters of Hitler.

The British Royals were of German extraction LONG before Hitler was born and the n**i party was in existance.. . .... so the connection you are trying to make

It is such a shame that people ... some sixty plus years AFTER the second world war ... are still trying to taint a whole nation of people for the actions of a political leader and party that were in power for less than 20 yrs.

Germany was re-unified in 1870.... and that was some 50 yrs prior to Hitler gaining power....

Are you to be held responsible for the actions of any weirdo ancestor you had ?

I THINK you're drawing a long bow re your conclusion re German Brits...

I am an australian , 5th generation .. it doesn't MATTER WHAT my ancestors were.. The QUEEN is British .. and I doubt sincerely that she would consider herself anything BUT .. and as for Prince Philip .. he was considered to be a Greek  Prince

study the royal families of europe and you'll find they are all entangled... even world war one could nearly be described as a massive family squabble.....

EDIT http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/a...

he is a Pom who migrated to AU .. so what makes him an Australian .. when you DON'T consider the Brit royals as British ... sorry but there you are grabbing at straws.