Question:
Why do so many people think the Royal Family represents the epitome of Englishness?
2013-02-04 02:37:48 UTC
The British Royal Family are not English, they are mostly German imposters and moved into Britain after 1707, when the Kingdom of England was sadly sold out to Scotland and mainland Europe.

The last truly English king was Harold Godwinson in 1066, ever since then English monarchs have been getting progressively less English and more European.

It annoys me when people refer to Old Lizzy as the Queen of England, because in reality she is nothing of the sort.
Nine answers:
?
2013-02-04 04:28:50 UTC
They're British, end of story.



Practically everybody in the UK has foreign ancestry. British isn't an ethnic group, it's a cultural one, and culture is what the royal family are all about.
2013-02-04 07:32:06 UTC
They aren't German. People don't bother to check the facts.



The Queen has German ancestry. Like all other royals in Europe, she also has French, Italian, Scandinavian, and other ancestries. She is, however, more English than German, far more English than anything else. The German contribution came along relatively late in the history of the monarchy, and the Hanoverians were, like Elizabeth herself, descendants of a long line of English and Scottish monarchs. That's why George I was offered the throne -- that and the fact that he was a Protestant.



I might point out that the Anglo-Saxons were a Germanic people -- you didn't know that? -- that they immigrated to the British Isles from elsewhere, and that they intermarried with other peoples. Alfred the Great's grandmother, for example, was a Frankish princess.



There has never been a "purely English" king. Never. You need to look into this more closely.



In any case, when you, your parents, and your grandparents were born, raised, and educated in a given nation, you are NOT "German" or a native of whatever country some of your ancestors might have happened to come from. I am an American of Anglo-Scot ancestry on one side and Franco-German ancestry on the other. That doesn't make me British or French or German. I'm American.
Andrew H
2013-02-04 04:33:32 UTC
The key phrase in your question is "BRITISH royal family".



BRITISH is the nationality of everyone in the UK, not just the English. Why should the BRITISH royal family be English?



You are correct, however, about Queen Elizabeth II. She isn't the Queen of England. That title hasn't existed for over 300 years.
Cortney
2013-02-04 02:43:02 UTC
Oh the Royal Family. What tosh. Doctor Who, Harry Potter, Jane Austen, Sherlock Holmes, and Downton Abbey are the true representatives of Englishness!
?
2013-02-04 02:42:40 UTC
Maybe it has something to do with their lack of knowledge on the subject. Like how you are English, yet "Englishness" is not a word in the English language. See? People just don't know any better.
TSK
2013-02-04 03:17:52 UTC
You are right..The BRITISH ROYAL family are NOT English..They are BRITISH..Why insult us NON English BRITISH from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland..?? YOU are NOT alone !!! YOU show your colours with the sold out comment...THINK it was the other way around to be honest......QUEEN of ENGLAND? Give us a break..What century in?

See new here...Need to be more sensitive and do your research.....
2013-02-04 05:56:52 UTC
True they are from sax coburg a area in Germany Cromwell will be spinning in his grave
?
2013-02-04 02:57:38 UTC
You are quite correct. The Queen of England & her family really have no right to the throne, other than they have it. The true heir (or I should say heirs) to the throne of England, live out here in AUSTRALIA!! ... It should have been 'King Michael Plantagenant', (if he is still alive?) I do know that he does have the patents of nobility, & all of the papers which would put him on the throne, if he had ever gone to England to claim it. ... Some 20 odd years ago, his children & grand children (who are aware of their heritage), expressed that they have no interest in leading that life, as monarchs. ..... I could go on & on about this, having met her cousin. To him, she is simply "cousin Liz." or else it's "No, we don't talk about her lot." (& nothing more is said.)
Hugo
2013-02-04 02:51:00 UTC
At least she has a pedigree, I wonder what yours is?


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