Our Hanoverian royals, friend or foe?

Question

So they changed there name to Windsor to show that they relly did want be be British, and had nothing to do with that nasty kieser fellow, and ww2 showed the queen mother being pleased that Buckinham palace had been bombed, now she can look us ordinary folk in the face. But, does anybody eles think that had Germany won the war, that our Royals would happily ruling over us with the reich? Please dont bother going on about this not being" grammaticaly correct" get over it!!

Answer 1

Our royals are not Hanoverians, the last ruler from the House of Hanover in the UK was Queen Victoria. Successive monarchs belong to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, renamed to Windsor, but their succession to that little duchy was deferred to that the UK would unlikely ever be in personal union with a German state again.

Answer 2

Sorry, I can get over the poor grammar, but not the spelling - that is what the 'Check Spelling' button is for....

Answer 3

You're probably generalising too much!

Not all Germans supported the Third Reich.

Some people in France and the UK supported the aims of the  Third Reich.

Some relatives of the British Royal family (i.e. in Germany) may well have been supporters of the Third Reich some of them may not (to be fair it would have been very difficult for them to voice an opinion).

Prince Phillip (like him or not) is from Greek extraction and actually served in the forces in WW2 fighting the Third Reich.

It is most probable that the Royal Family would have been 'deposed' (or possibly disposed of) - our Parliament dissolved and a whole different political system imposed upon the country.

Also you seem to think that just because people are from the same extended family that they all get on together!

To sum up I think that had we would have far more serious problems than the question you pose had the Third Reich been successful.

Answer 4

Actually, the House of Windsor is a branch of the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha line of the House of Wettin. By virtue of Queen Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, son of Duke Ernst I of the small German duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, her descendants were members of the ducal family of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha with the house name of Wettin. Victoria's son Edward VII and his son George V reigned as members of this house.

However, high anti-German feeling among the people during World War I prompted the Royal Family to abandon all titles held under the German crown and to change German-sounding titles and house names for English-sounding versions. In other words, they changed their German titles  because they were afraid the English will blame their hatred on the British royal family for being "Germans."

Note: If the British royal family "really wanted to be British" they would have changed their German titles before the war even took place. Obviously, they were doing it to save themselves from being overthrown like what happened during the French revolution.