Is the Royal family English or German?

Question

"The one-quarter Welsh King Henry VII of England had a sister who married a Scots King, and later a descendant of this marriage married an Elector of Hanover. So when the throne of England passed from the Tudors to the Scots Stuarts, and there was a problem on there being no heirs to the throne from Queen Anne and from Queen Mary and William of Orange, the Parliament had a bright idea and invited the German George, the Elector of Hanover, to be King of England.."

So does this mean the Royal family now has German blood? Does this further mean that the German Nazi's are related to the royal family?

Answer 1

Not all germans were Nazi

After the death of Queen Anne, George of Hanover was offered the British throne because he was the first Protestant in the line of succession. There were more than fifty people more closely related to Anne than George was but they were all Catholics so could not gain the throne. Queen Anne had a half brother, James Francis Edward, the son of James II and two nephews, Charles Edward Stuart and Henry Benedict Stuart so the close relatives were there but they were all Catholic.



The bloodline of the Royal Family is mostly German, from King George the First forward. Most of the monarchs since King George the First also married other Germans as well. Prince Philip--though a prince of Greece--is descended from Queen Victoria and has mostly German blood. The present Queen and Prince Philip are both half-German by blood, making Prince Charles and his siblings half-German as well.

Answer 2

Leaving out the 'German Nazi' comment, the current Royal Family does have connections to Germany. However, the current Queen was born in England and her mother was Scottish. Make of that what you will.

Answer 3

All the Royal family, but excluding Prince Philip, were born in Britain, so they are British and not German. Any Trace of German Blood was ended when The IRA murdered Lord Lois Mounbatten.

Answer 4

They have quite a mix. The following website shows the ancestors of Prince William:



http://www.wargs.com/essays/ethnic.html



The details for him:



Prince William of Wales:



35.327 148 437 5 % English

29.418 945 312 5 % Royal

14.404 296 875 % Scottish

5.383 300 781 25 % German

3.747 558 593 75 % Irish

3.320 312 5 % French

3.295 898 437 5 % Anglo-Irish

2.343 75 % Hungarian

0.781 25 % Armenian

0.585 937 5 % Dutch

0.292 968 75 % Danish

0.292 968 75 % Welsh

0.158 691 906 25 % Belgian

0.146 484 375 % Swedish

0.146 484 375 % Swiss

0.122 070 312 5 % Bohemian

0.097 656 25 % Lithuanian

0.097 656 25 % Russian

0.036 621 093 75 % Jersiaise

======================

100.0 %



So, about 5% German, and 50% "British."

Answer 5

In terms of percentages, the Queen is far more English than she is anything else. She is a direct descendant of a long line of English and Scottish monarchs.



The German contribution came along relatively late in the history of the monarchy. Moreover, George of Hanover, the German king who was offered the throne on the death of his cousin Queen Anne, was, like Anne and like Elizabeth today, also a direct descendant of a long line of English and Scottish monarchs. Had he not been, he would not have been offered the British throne. Sophia of Hanover, his mother and the woman from whom all heirs to the British throne must be descended, was the granddaughter of King James I/VI of England and Scotland and thus a direct descendant of King Henry VII Tudor, the Plantagenet kings, and so forth.



The Queen was born and raised in the UK. Her parents were born and raised in the UK. Even her grandmother Queen Mary, who was half-German, was half-British and born in the UK.



This notion that the royals are "German" is ludicrous, especially to the ears of an American. We have millions of people whose grandparents and great-grandparents and so forth immigrated from European countries, but as far as we are concerned, they are Americans and nothing but. They simply have interesting ancestries.



Edit: Prince Philip's sisters did marry German aristocrats, and there were Nazi associations there. Philip himself obviously didn't marry a German woman, and he was never involved with Nazism.

Answer 6

Heinz 57

Answer 7

The BRITISH royal family has, like most British families, a mixture of genetic heritage including English, Scottish, German, Danish and Greek.

Answer 8

German without any doubt

This is the law of England and there can be no exemption.

The Act of Settlement of 1701 established that the English monarch MUST be a direct descendant of a German woman, Sophia, Electress of Hanover who lived in the 17th century.

There can be no exceptions to this law and most monarchs since then have been either directly German or with a largely German bred.

Until WW1 the preferred language at court was German and all monarchs or heirs to the throne married Germans.

During WW! George V changed the family name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor to hide the German origins.

And his cousins, the Battenbergs changed theirs to Mountbatten

George V was the grandfather of the present queen

Prince Philip , her husband, is of German origin

His origin surname was Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Oldenburg.

He changed to Mountbatten before his marriage.

Diana, Princess of Wales was the first English person to marry a monarch or heir to the monarchy since the time of Henry VIII in the 16th century

The present ruling family has an enormous number of relations in Germany and some of them were Nazis.

Answer 9

It does not matter there is no difference between the English and the Germans.

Answer 10

In Britain we don't obsess over our Bloodlines as a rule, they're utterly meaningless, except to some right wing nutjobs

Answer 11

Roma, Tatar and Basque.

Answer 12

yeah, they do have German blood, and yes some Nazis were probably related, if distantly. but obviously we still think of them as british and they have british accents and they aren't nazis, obviously

Answer 13

British nationality of mixed European Royal and British aristocratic descent.

Answer 14

How many American Presidents were true Americans ,there is alien blood in every single person drawing breath ,that's apart from Americans that is ! ! Poor old "Geronimo and Cochise must be spinning in their graves,or did you lot have the decency to allow them to be buried ?

Answer 15

Prince Philip's sisters were married to Nazis, yes. They were not invited to his wedding with princess Elizabeth, however.

Answer 16

very confusing stuff seek from google it can assist

Answer 17

BRITISH and NOT English because IS THE BRITISH MONARCHY....WE in the UK are NOT all ENGLISH....NEWSFLASH !!! IS also 2012.....NAZIS? Ye GODS....Having lived in GERMANY agree that is SO IGNORANT......Americans have such an obsession with race & ethnicity...So lacking any class.....IS TACKY !!!

Answer 18

She's descended from French speaking Vikings