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minus-squareeinkorn@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-27 hours agoI assume you will be delighted to learn that “Windsor” actually is just a cover name for Saxe-Coburg and Gotha because in 1917 having a German house on the British throne didn’t seem right. Edit: Totally forgot that Mountbatten is also just a German housename in disguise.
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours agoYes but Mountbatten is anglicization of Battenburg, not Glücksburg. All those branches are intertwined, of course.
minus-squareGork@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·5 hours agoSo scandalous that ze Germans have infiltrated the Royal Family! 🧐
minus-squarelepinkainen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·4 hours agoI, too, have watched The Crown 😜
I assume you will be delighted to learn that “Windsor” actually is just a cover name for Saxe-Coburg and Gotha because in 1917 having a German house on the British throne didn’t seem right.
Edit: Totally forgot that Mountbatten is also just a German housename in disguise.
Yes but Mountbatten is anglicization of Battenburg, not Glücksburg. All those branches are intertwined, of course.
So scandalous that ze Germans have infiltrated the Royal Family! 🧐
I, too, have watched The Crown 😜