Is the British Royal Family Really German?

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Considering that they are such a British institution the British Royal family may not be as British as you think. In fact it is often said that the Windsors are in fact mostly German. While they are descended from the German house of Hanover that’s not quite the whole story. Several women and two men of various nationality have married British monarchs meaning Queen Elizabeth and her heirs Prince Charles and Prince William have quite an interesting genealogy. Let’s investigate where the branches on the royal family tree came from.
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  • @theobuniel9643
    @theobuniel96433 жыл бұрын

    "I'm as British as Queen Victoria!!!" _"So your father's a German, you're half-German and you married a German?"_

  • @ajsfarm1366

    @ajsfarm1366

    2 жыл бұрын

    Interestingly her mother was actually the german one

  • @othmarhenrietta910

    @othmarhenrietta910

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ajsfarm1366 Mmm my mom

  • @johnbrereton5229

    @johnbrereton5229

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sorry Theo, but Victoria was born in 1819, Germany didn't exist untill 1871 , so how could Victoria be German??????

  • @gansz_lol

    @gansz_lol

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@johnbrereton5229 😂😂😂😂😂😂 you had the holy roman empire and germany had always been a thing. her fathers family is actually german and they got hold of the English throne through idk back in 1717 or so? and they all marrier German women Victorias mother was german, her grandmother paternal side was german, its like being American but you're actually German as in being of german descent. the Swedish house e.g. is french, the Russian Romanov were also actually german and often had german wife's and so hardly were russian. even the queens late husband was a prince of denmark and greece but wasn't greece at all

  • @johnbrereton5229

    @johnbrereton5229

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gansz_lol Germany as a country did not exist until 1871, before that it was seperate principalities or states like Hanover where prince Albert came from. The Hanovarians were in the line of succession to the British throne. Although, 'germans' themselves refer to themselves as Deutsch, it's only English speakers who call them German.

  • @matthewawesome1212
    @matthewawesome12123 жыл бұрын

    “A little family feud called ww1”

  • @Patrick3183

    @Patrick3183

    3 жыл бұрын

    matthewawesome121 you couldn’t be more wrong with that assessment. That shows you have no clue or idea about history in general nor of 19th century politics. Geez.

  • @lisa-3373

    @lisa-3373

    3 жыл бұрын

    Patrick3183 it's clearly a joke

  • @matthewawesome1212

    @matthewawesome1212

    3 жыл бұрын

    Patrick3183 really dude I understand it fine I was just quoting something she said

  • @mollyh1056

    @mollyh1056

    3 жыл бұрын

    Patrick3183 imagine being this upset about a quote from the video you just watched

  • @Latezz123

    @Latezz123

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@mollyh1056 ....or didn't watch. Or else he wouldn't have made a fuss about it.

  • @slimphotog
    @slimphotog3 жыл бұрын

    I learned from this video that despite being American, I'm more English than Prince Charles, the heir to the throne.

  • @Crusty_Camper

    @Crusty_Camper

    3 жыл бұрын

    And I dare say you would make a better monarch too. Despite being British ( well, my DNA says English/Scottish/Irish/German/French/Neanderthal so I'm typical British in that respect ) like many people here I am not overly Royalist. Time we moved on to a more suitable system, I think.

  • @heatherwhite2788

    @heatherwhite2788

    3 жыл бұрын

    I am as well!

  • @potatonate760

    @potatonate760

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @TonivomBananenboot

    @TonivomBananenboot

    3 жыл бұрын

    What you should have learned from this video is, you being american means, your are actually british, which in the end means you are german.

  • @heatherwhite2788

    @heatherwhite2788

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@TonivomBananenboot Umm, no, not at all

  • @receivedSE
    @receivedSE3 жыл бұрын

    Dutch Royal Family is also German, but many Dutch people do not like this fact.

  • @receivedSE

    @receivedSE

    3 жыл бұрын

    @LadyLiberty The members of Dutch Royal family got married with German princes long time ago.

  • @thetruth3405

    @thetruth3405

    3 жыл бұрын

    Dutch is also the part of germanic tribes family

  • @linajurgensen4698

    @linajurgensen4698

    2 жыл бұрын

    Why? Because we are better in football?

  • @Youonlyliveonce369

    @Youonlyliveonce369

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hahaha in our national anthem we say we are german so everybody knows it.....

  • @Erozegemen

    @Erozegemen

    2 жыл бұрын

    yea and most of prince philips "russian" ancestors were german aswell

  • @25usd94
    @25usd943 жыл бұрын

    short answer: they're *kinda* german, but less so now than ever before, and they're getting increasingly british with each generation. fascinating

  • @katemaloney4296

    @katemaloney4296

    3 жыл бұрын

    That God for the Queen Mum and Diana.

  • @dijonfelida7876

    @dijonfelida7876

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@katemaloney4296 and kate she ensure it!!!

  • @Vinicius-eg2sw

    @Vinicius-eg2sw

    3 жыл бұрын

    They needed the Spencers for that.

  • @djprojectus

    @djprojectus

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Regina Redding Why? Why so much attention to the purest bloodlines? And what are those bloodlines?

  • @gostavoadolfos2023

    @gostavoadolfos2023

    3 жыл бұрын

    As less German blood they get the less beautiful they become.

  • @isabelledionne8396
    @isabelledionne83963 жыл бұрын

    They had to marry into protestant foreign royalty, so they were praticly obligated to marry in German monarchies...

  • @tylerlasarow

    @tylerlasarow

    3 жыл бұрын

    I was thinking the exact same thing

  • @Patrick3183

    @Patrick3183

    3 жыл бұрын

    Isabelle Dionne I wonder why they didn’t choose Scandinavian royalty

  • @isabelledionne8396

    @isabelledionne8396

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Patrick3183 Maybe it was more prestigeous?

  • @Patrick3183

    @Patrick3183

    3 жыл бұрын

    Isabelle Dionne German princelings and grand dukes more prestigious than the child of a king?

  • @neilabaqui9449

    @neilabaqui9449

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Flibbertigibbet6 Alexandra da Dinamarca era mulher do rei Eduardo VII (filho da Rainha Vitória) rei do Reino Unido, pai do Jorge V, que era o pai de Jorge VI pai da atual rainha da Inglaterra, Elizabeth II. Essa geração até o príncipe Charles, é mais alemã que inglês.

  • @HVACSoldier
    @HVACSoldier3 жыл бұрын

    I remember a scene from “Blackadder goes Fourth,” Captain Darling says he’s “…as English as Queen Victoria.” To which Captain Blackadder response, “So your half German and you married a German.”

  • @dagmarvandoren9364

    @dagmarvandoren9364

    8 ай бұрын

    I love my home cou ntry...regardless of wars. I am german. From sachsen. Und preussen. Hoch lebe Deutschland

  • @omgdwayne1565
    @omgdwayne15653 жыл бұрын

    I've never seen this topic so well explained. I've read a LOT about this sort of thing for decades, and I really like the way you've quantified it.

  • @rebeccawhite2155
    @rebeccawhite21553 жыл бұрын

    It still shocks me every single time to see how many men from this family are nearly identical, even distant relatives like the Romanovs.

  • @mcmc2817

    @mcmc2817

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's called inbreeding!

  • @boynek.4216

    @boynek.4216

    3 жыл бұрын

    inbreeding and they had very rigid beauty standarts and mostly every royal were obliged to follow them because they would be commonized if they looked in an avarage way and because that you can't see a royal just walking down the street people tought that those potraits realy reflected how they looked but they most certainly didn't so they didn't look "identical" but had to follow identical royal beauty standards

  • @neilabaqui9449

    @neilabaqui9449

    3 жыл бұрын

    O avô do Rei Jorge VI, Eduardo VII (pai de George V) , era filho da Rainha Vitória e o czar Nicolau II da Rússia e a czarina Alexandra eram primos do rei Jorge V. A mãe da czarina (Alice) era irmã de Eduardo VII. A mãe de George V ( Alexandra da Dinamarca) era irmã da mãe do Czar Nicolau II (Dagmar da Dinamarca). Portanto o czar era primo por parte de mãe do Rei George V. E a czarina era prima por parte de mãe do Rei George V. Só a czarina era neta da Rainha Vitória I. O czar Nicolau II não era neto da rainha Vitória I.

  • @Figgatella

    @Figgatella

    3 жыл бұрын

    The Romanovs were cousins to the British Royals

  • @piratesswoop725

    @piratesswoop725

    3 жыл бұрын

    George V of the UK and Nicholas II of Russia were first cousins. Their mothers were sisters, so them looking similar shouldn't be too surprising.

  • @sharonlefebvre7292
    @sharonlefebvre72923 жыл бұрын

    Let me get this straight, it is ok to marry your cousins but not ok to marry a divorcee! Weird!

  • @evacope1718

    @evacope1718

    3 жыл бұрын

    Marriages were more so contracts back in the day, there used to be laws making only sons able to inherit their estates and titles meaning if they only had daughters and the father died, the family fortune would be transferred to some distant male relative and their family line would go extinct and their fortune lost. In order to keep the line, title and fortune in the same family they got the daughters to marry the cousin or whom ever the possessions are entailed to, but this was also done to strength the families power and fortune by combining assets. A good example of this is in Downton Abbey, where the earl has only daughters and they scramble to find a cousin or relative to marry the eldest daughter to secure their estate within their family after the previous heir died in the titanic. A lot of this stopped after laws of inheritance changed and the powers of aristocratic families subsided.

  • @evacope1718

    @evacope1718

    3 жыл бұрын

    But yeah it is wild especially considering a great majority of aristocrats had courtesans and illegitimate children, yet the concept of divorce is somehow immoral lol.

  • @katemaloney4296

    @katemaloney4296

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well, considering the divorcee Edward wanted to marry, he would have been better off marrying a close cousin.

  • @paulwoida8249

    @paulwoida8249

    3 жыл бұрын

    Henry VIII married multiple times and started the Anglican Church because of it. And people actually get upset about British royal family men who want to marry a divorced woman.

  • @gidzmobug2323

    @gidzmobug2323

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@katemaloney4296 The Church of England in 1936 would not recognize divorce; the government would not accept Wallis Simpson as Queen. The monarch is also head of the Church of England.

  • @mayling141
    @mayling1413 жыл бұрын

    😂 The ending made me laugh 😆! The British Royals becomes more British when they marry a “commoner”. That’s a good one.

  • @aalb1873

    @aalb1873

    3 жыл бұрын

    As if to say: now we share something of your poor beggars. Noblesse oblige…

  • @mayling141

    @mayling141

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@aalb1873 - So true

  • @electroskates2434
    @electroskates24343 жыл бұрын

    In conclusion: They're European

  • @rosestanley9606

    @rosestanley9606

    3 жыл бұрын

    Germany is a European country

  • @karlosthejackel69

    @karlosthejackel69

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ding Ding Ding remainer alert 🚨

  • @leonieromanes7265

    @leonieromanes7265

    3 жыл бұрын

    Germans until the queen mother and Diana came along.

  • @ratchetnoobler6250

    @ratchetnoobler6250

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bruh change your pfp

  • @westyraviz

    @westyraviz

    3 жыл бұрын

    African actually. From The Niger.

  • @ricepaddymaddie
    @ricepaddymaddie3 жыл бұрын

    Other people have family trees, royalties used to have family wreathe.

  • @CallieMasters5000

    @CallieMasters5000

    3 жыл бұрын

    The Spanish Habsburgs had that crazy family tree that didn't branch. My favorite was the couple who both shared all the same grandparents, and one of those grandparents was the child of one of the other grandparents!

  • @brianapennington7384

    @brianapennington7384

    3 жыл бұрын

    J C Ruby charles is related to both of his wives though..

  • @susquahallasmiley3262

    @susquahallasmiley3262

    3 жыл бұрын

    Callie Masters lady, that was a trellis

  • @neilabaqui9449

    @neilabaqui9449

    3 жыл бұрын

    @J C Ruby Sem chances.

  • @cheyenneysewijn7343

    @cheyenneysewijn7343

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh genealogy...my mother an her nephew shared all great grandparents except for 1 branch. They were always kept apart because they used to be best of friends and they feared a romance :/ Their father's were double cousins and their mothers regular cousins. But nothing close to the insanity of the Spanish genealogy....

  • @HaydenReeves
    @HaydenReeves3 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if the royal kids ever will grow up and watch these videos and be like “wow, do I get extra points for being the most British?”

  • @BaibonnDilangalenSangid-fv9qk

    @BaibonnDilangalenSangid-fv9qk

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oust the Nazi blood suckers parasites, no one is above anyone. All people must have an opportunity to lead and govern the republic the institutions they serve.. No one tyrant family must run a state... Imagine, London is even detached like Vatican the Nazi pesfs actually call themselves gods of evil, they don't pay taxes, while majority of the citizens enslaves are dying?? Grow up..

  • @AVerdadeEstaLaForaMapping

    @AVerdadeEstaLaForaMapping

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@BaibonnDilangalenSangid-fv9qk what the hell, the guy just made a joke pal

  • @jordanleigh6481

    @jordanleigh6481

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@BaibonnDilangalenSangid-fv9qk far from nazis the queen was a tank mechanic o. Tanks fighting the nazis lol. Prince Charles was one of our biggest navy heors in world war 2

  • @AVerdadeEstaLaForaMapping

    @AVerdadeEstaLaForaMapping

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jordanleigh6481 Prince Charles was born after the war lol

  • @angelinavillegas-zimmerman4759

    @angelinavillegas-zimmerman4759

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AVerdadeEstaLaForaMapping I think, he mean Prince Philip.

  • @sanookjoe9040
    @sanookjoe90402 жыл бұрын

    To make it short. When a Prince calls his Dad "Bro!", he actually means it.

  • @theroyals1153

    @theroyals1153

    2 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/nIKLt66bm5m0gLQ.html

  • @volker4897
    @volker48973 жыл бұрын

    I grew up in Germany but it turns out that queen Elizabeth has more German blood than I 😂

  • @NothingOfNoteToSeeHere
    @NothingOfNoteToSeeHere3 жыл бұрын

    Wait, Frederik got killed by a tennis ball and an other died on the toilet? Weird but okay.

  • @carmendilcherd4765

    @carmendilcherd4765

    3 жыл бұрын

    My great grandma also died on the toilet! She had a heart attack

  • @marcocognome1835

    @marcocognome1835

    3 жыл бұрын

    He didn't exatly died on the toilet, he was hit by something (than now I don't reameber) on the toilet but died later

  • @CindyWilson1991

    @CindyWilson1991

    3 жыл бұрын

    Frederick's death sounds more like an abdominal aortic aneurysm as a result of the tennis ball.

  • @edinagaspar722

    @edinagaspar722

    3 жыл бұрын

    I guess those were 2 different ppl, one dies because of the tennis ball causing his ulcer to burst and there was another who lived until the age of 76 or 77 and he died on the toilet...

  • @jec1ny

    @jec1ny

    3 жыл бұрын

    My sister was an EMT for more than twenty years. She told me that one of the more common circumstances for sudden death is when answering the call of nature. The exertion, especially among the elderly and those with heart conditions, can be terminal.

  • @StevenTorrey
    @StevenTorrey3 жыл бұрын

    For those who don't know: the reason why Czar Nicholas II and King George V looked so similar was because their mothers were sisters. Czar Nicholas' mother was Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark); George V's mother was her sister--Alexandra of Denmark.

  • @marshamariner7897

    @marshamariner7897

    2 жыл бұрын

    And when George V refused the czar and family to come to England he really signed their death warrant!!🇬🇧😪

  • @lynzysconstitutionalcrashc7836

    @lynzysconstitutionalcrashc7836

    2 жыл бұрын

    One of my cousins and I look like sisters. Makes sense!

  • @hanaluong2672

    @hanaluong2672

    2 жыл бұрын

    Those cousins were not nice to each other. Each only cared about their own power.

  • @victoria19853

    @victoria19853

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@marshamariner7897 I think there was money involved.

  • @marshamariner7897

    @marshamariner7897

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ty for that. I thought cousins was in there....I know Victoria was related to HMQE2 and Phillip...and he's related to the zarina Alexandra...(d1918) Grandma or such. I know Phillips father was king (?) Of Greece ... complicated history 🌍🌎🇺🇸🦋🌹🇺🇦🌍🌎👀

  • @sarah-annecarney7552
    @sarah-annecarney75523 жыл бұрын

    Wow, the sheer amount of work that went into this is simply remarkable. Well done and thank you so much for posting!.

  • @tusk70
    @tusk703 жыл бұрын

    Kaiser Wilhelm once said:" If my grandmother (Queen Victoria) would had been alive, she would never allowed the 1st Worldwar!"

  • @Wally-pu2hh

    @Wally-pu2hh

    Жыл бұрын

    The British caused the 1st world War because of their expansion in the world by their monarchy

  • @AccipiterSmith

    @AccipiterSmith

    Жыл бұрын

    Kinda ironic isn't it for Kaiser Wilhelm II to say this one 😅

  • @oneup3

    @oneup3

    9 ай бұрын

    He started the first world war😂 if it wasn't for him declaring war on France to fulfill his own ambitions then the war would've never happened

  • @tusk70

    @tusk70

    9 ай бұрын

    @@oneup3 No, he didn't started the 1. WW.

  • @oneup3

    @oneup3

    9 ай бұрын

    @@tusk70 yes he did. Austria declaring war on Serbia wouldn't have started ww1 had Germany not declared war on France

  • @insaneweasel1
    @insaneweasel13 жыл бұрын

    "No Black adder, I'm as british as queen Victoria!" "So your mother was German, your father was half German and you married a German!"

  • @envinyatar5712

    @envinyatar5712

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Three Cherries As did the Russians. *Sankt-Petersburg* is a half Russian half Dutch name, and it was found sounding "too German" during the Great War. So they changed it into the Russian version: *Petrograd*

  • @franmellor9843

    @franmellor9843

    3 жыл бұрын

    Love blackadder

  • @envinyatar5712

    @envinyatar5712

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Three Cherries I do understand your feelings. However, did you ever ask yourself what would have it be like in Germany and Austria, if the Hohenzollerns and Habsburgs kept their thrones? I imagine that the national socialists would never have risen to power, and we could avoid another great war.

  • @silverdragon710

    @silverdragon710

    3 жыл бұрын

    Three Cherries was thinking the exact same quote while watching this! hahahah

  • @oceansunflower5894

    @oceansunflower5894

    3 жыл бұрын

    Queen Charlotte the wife of King George the 3 had 15 children no body wants to talk about this family that why I believe she was of the African decent. If you know tell us more about Queen Charlotte please

  • @brettlarch8050
    @brettlarch80503 жыл бұрын

    So William and Harry are distantly related to Dracula and Winston Churchill? MIND BLOWN

  • @marcocognome1835

    @marcocognome1835

    3 жыл бұрын

    And maby also to Hennry the VIII, because Charles and Diana have as Ancestors, he Mary Boleyn's daughter, and She Mary Boleyn's Son. If at at least One of theam was fathered by Hennry VIII, they have Hennry VIII as their Many time great granfather

  • @calvinrichardsonsr9192

    @calvinrichardsonsr9192

    3 жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately the whites that ran away from that looney government because they were treated llike dogs now want to start this foolishness to this continent I grew up under one of those cute name Jim Crow we are all going to live in peace or we will all die in pain "Sad".

  • @carolthomson4705

    @carolthomson4705

    3 жыл бұрын

    Harry married a real Dracula

  • @dianavivaldi4503

    @dianavivaldi4503

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@carolthomson4705 With all the draculas in his family, he just ran away from them by marrying a real woman.

  • @evacope1718

    @evacope1718

    3 жыл бұрын

    And princess Diana, since she's related to Winston Churchill

  • @nas2817
    @nas28172 жыл бұрын

    Finally, the 3 youngest are the most British. It's pretty amusing to me. Thank you Lindsey. This is a great video!

  • @andreaaltis8343
    @andreaaltis83433 жыл бұрын

    Rest in peace Duke of Edinburgh 1921-2021

  • @Anglovox

    @Anglovox

    3 жыл бұрын

    As true a "gentleman" as there ever was(IMHO).

  • @beebeemotsumi

    @beebeemotsumi

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wow he lived long !!!!

  • @Officialaaravd

    @Officialaaravd

    3 жыл бұрын

    He was actually 421st in line

  • @Iamyl4

    @Iamyl4

    3 жыл бұрын

    I wrote a comment but oddly enough it’s not here. Anyway I said don’t make me puke... this is the same guy who said if he died he would like to be reincarnated as a deadly virus so he could contribute something to overpopulation 🤮

  • @Officialaaravd

    @Officialaaravd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Emily Williams He was vaccinated

  • @vanmarx1171
    @vanmarx11713 жыл бұрын

    If George will be crowned king, he will be the most British for 300 years. I laughed so hard at this😂

  • @Melalunga

    @Melalunga

    3 жыл бұрын

    And the first Jewish king.

  • @danyellfeeley5822

    @danyellfeeley5822

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Melalunga My family are Goldsmiths and we have never been Jewish. We are enrolled in the Norman Foundation.

  • @jkmoon6619

    @jkmoon6619

    3 жыл бұрын

    George will be the most man british who will be the king of Britain

  • @vern0018

    @vern0018

    3 жыл бұрын

    Me too. Unbelievable.

  • @danyellfeeley5822

    @danyellfeeley5822

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AAAAAAAADDDDDDDDD i suppose that before 1657, anything is possible. My pedigree goes back to John Norman and, " Little is known about his antecedents, other than that Norman's grandfather, Roger Norman, a silk weaver who was a Huguenot refugee, came to Norwich in the early 17th century"

  • @rufust.schmaltz8809
    @rufust.schmaltz88093 жыл бұрын

    "Hanover was located in Germany." Pretty sure it still is, lol. 😆😆😆

  • @ryanhuntrajput474

    @ryanhuntrajput474

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ofcourse It's still in germany and it's absolutely serene and heavenly.

  • @ruth078

    @ruth078

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ryanhuntrajput474 well I wouldn't agree with that statement completely (I've lived there my entire life and and still do) but it's quite nice. Great lakes, the large Forest, great university, lots of nice museums, cafes and bars. It's quite nice. And the rent isn't too high either haha

  • @ryanhuntrajput474

    @ryanhuntrajput474

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ruth078 I'll love to spend some time there 👑🇩🇪👌🏼

  • @gloriatshabalala3619

    @gloriatshabalala3619

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lovely place in Germany 🤩

  • @eisbeinGermany

    @eisbeinGermany

    3 жыл бұрын

    definitely Hannover still exists , lol i stay in it,

  • @vv-th7co
    @vv-th7co3 жыл бұрын

    So whenever any war happened in europe the german are the winner and the loser at the same time

  • @wiwo7501

    @wiwo7501

    3 жыл бұрын

    the reason german can rebuild after ww2 defeat

  • @jmoney20106

    @jmoney20106

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @KWMc1952

    @KWMc1952

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah. Like the Rothschild brothers funding different countries when they went to war.

  • @heathergittens3223
    @heathergittens32233 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for posting this.

  • @Lauren.E.O
    @Lauren.E.O3 жыл бұрын

    6:51 Wow, baby Victoria ACTUALLY looked like a baby! Most old paintings show babies as....well, very unhappy looking small adults.

  • @Edmonton-of2ec

    @Edmonton-of2ec

    3 жыл бұрын

    That was due to most people wanting portraits to reflect the Virgin Mary and Jesus. Once culture started to somewhat secularize, people wanted cute and life-like babies.

  • @neilabaqui9449

    @neilabaqui9449

    3 жыл бұрын

    Os filhos da rainha Vitória com o príncipe Albert tiveram uma infância muito feliz, com pais amorosos e preocupados em sua felicidade. O príncipe Albert foi quem trouxe a tradição da árvore de Natal para o reino Unido. Acredito que uma pessoa com esse tipo de preocupação era um ótimo pai.

  • @RiC_David

    @RiC_David

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Edmonton-of2ec Does this have anything to do with that painting of baby Jesus where he's totally ripped?

  • @Edmonton-of2ec

    @Edmonton-of2ec

    3 жыл бұрын

    RiC David Uhh.... I don’t even wanna know

  • @RiC_David

    @RiC_David

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Edmonton-of2ec Well luckily then I couldn't find the painting I was thinking of so I can't show you. We had them on postage stamps maybe ten years ago here in Britain, it seems like a common thing though because I found other paintings from the time of babies with sweet six pack abs i.pinimg.com/originals/0e/1c/24/0e1c24d0b3620e5ec9dd4c04760777c7.png And they say pregnant women shouldn't abuse steroids. Clearly they should.

  • @ericlanglois9194
    @ericlanglois91943 жыл бұрын

    It gets more complicated when you realize that the English are a melting pot of mostly Germanic tribes (Anglo-saxons were descendent of Angles, Saxons and Jutes, three Germanic tribes, mixed with the Celtic locals; Normans were descendent of Franks and Norse, Germanic tribes again, mixed with some Roman and Celtic influences)

  • @heathergittens3223

    @heathergittens3223

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @billyjohnson7601

    @billyjohnson7601

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well said.

  • @leonieromanes7265

    @leonieromanes7265

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's true, only the Welsh and some highland Scotts are indigenous to the British isles. And even they are mixed with some Celtic blood.

  • @ericlanglois9194

    @ericlanglois9194

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@leonieromanes7265 All the indigenous peoples of the British isles are Insular Celtic tribes... The original "groups" being the Goidels in modern day Ireland, the Picts in modern day Scotland and the Britons in modern day England and Wales. Each having many tribes that eventually diverged, moved around, or were assimilated by conquering groups.

  • @jmoney20106

    @jmoney20106

    3 жыл бұрын

    Indeed you read my mind

  • @ritaking8827
    @ritaking88273 жыл бұрын

    This was fascinating! Thank you.

  • @alango4651
    @alango46513 жыл бұрын

    I love videos like this. Genographic projects or research is very interesing. And the royal families are a very good way to show this. Well done. Maybe you make more videos like this? That would be cool. :)

  • @CallieMasters5000
    @CallieMasters50003 жыл бұрын

    You should do this same exercise for the Grimaldi family of Monaco. They have a tradition of only marrying foreigners, there is no local aristocracy to pull from, and the pool of Monegasque citizens has always been very low (like 5,000-10,000 people), so the current Prince Albert II and his kids don't have much Monegasque blood at all despite their being from a family that has ruled Monaco since 1297.

  • @adriannegentleman83

    @adriannegentleman83

    3 жыл бұрын

    at least one royal family in Europe isn't inbred lol

  • @dianavivaldi4503

    @dianavivaldi4503

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@adriannegentleman83 That's why they are one of the few Royals that are good looking.

  • @marinadeburgos8666

    @marinadeburgos8666

    3 жыл бұрын

    Considering the city of Monaco is pretty small compared to the rest of Europe, is not strange. The only other option that could go through their head was imbreading like the Habsburgs, since it is really probable that half of the city is related

  • @katemaloney4296

    @katemaloney4296

    3 жыл бұрын

    A French family with an Italian last name. Now that's a story.

  • @roddo1955

    @roddo1955

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dianavivaldi4503 I guess Albert is handsome and his sisters are quite handsome. But the great beauty really comes from the foreign brides of the princes.

  • @FuruyaHaKokoniImasu
    @FuruyaHaKokoniImasu3 жыл бұрын

    "The little family feud called world war 1!" I just spit my coffee out! Don't do that to me!!! 😂😂

  • @dj-pw8lw

    @dj-pw8lw

    3 жыл бұрын

    hahahahahahahaha

  • @agrimasaraswat9626

    @agrimasaraswat9626

    3 жыл бұрын

    hahahahahahahahahaha lol I was also shocked man

  • @rugiiman8917

    @rugiiman8917

    3 жыл бұрын

    we got the same place on the political compass

  • @GreanePin
    @GreanePin3 жыл бұрын

    I've found myself really enjoying your content. Very interesting and informative..I didn't know I would've been interested in this stuff but hey, guess I am. Love it!

  • @walterajimenez9466
    @walterajimenez94663 жыл бұрын

    Well, back in the 1700s after Queen Anne's death, since she didn't have children, the crown went to her closest protestant relative I believe which was George of Hanover.

  • @SymphonyBrahms

    @SymphonyBrahms

    Жыл бұрын

    That is correct. He had Stuart blood through his grandmother.

  • @andypham1636

    @andypham1636

    Жыл бұрын

    yes she talked about that in the beginning

  • @saimanrijal5896
    @saimanrijal58963 жыл бұрын

    I want to see 23 and me DNA report of British Royals. It's gonna be damn interesting

  • @attysthoughts3253

    @attysthoughts3253

    3 жыл бұрын

    their research method is scuffed.

  • @billyjohnson7601

    @billyjohnson7601

    3 жыл бұрын

    Its posted on line

  • @Chuck0856

    @Chuck0856

    3 жыл бұрын

    By that standard every native born US citizen isn't an american.

  • @shon7425

    @shon7425

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @cynthiaburrus255

    @cynthiaburrus255

    3 жыл бұрын

    Queen you probably won't find discussed is Queen Charlotte Sophia who was married to King George III. She was greatly beloved by her husband and had 15 children, 13 of whom lived to Adulthood. Rare in a time that mothers certainly expected to lose a number of children.

  • @awc6007
    @awc60073 жыл бұрын

    “IF and WHEN it is George’s is turn to be king of the UK...” Imagine if Queen Elizabeth is still Queen when George is an adult 😬

  • @roddo1955

    @roddo1955

    3 жыл бұрын

    Imagine if the monarchy ends after Elisabeth...

  • @joermnyc

    @joermnyc

    3 жыл бұрын

    roddo Charles: “Oh dear...”

  • @earthlingalien439

    @earthlingalien439

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@roddo1955 i hope it does, England deserves better

  • @Maggietritt

    @Maggietritt

    3 жыл бұрын

    roddo is o

  • @Maggietritt

    @Maggietritt

    3 жыл бұрын

    Good Joe R M

  • @tholieu6955
    @tholieu69553 жыл бұрын

    Very informative. Thank you!

  • @eXtremeFX2010
    @eXtremeFX20103 жыл бұрын

    Very well put together and explained 👍😉

  • @RCSVirginia
    @RCSVirginia3 жыл бұрын

    As so many people in the British Isles are descended from the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, German tribes all, this just means that the British Royal Family fits right in with its subjects.

  • @Dave-hu5hr

    @Dave-hu5hr

    3 жыл бұрын

    *Germanic - Jutes were from Denmark 🇩🇰. Angles were border country 🇩🇰/🇩🇪 and Saxons were from Germany 🇩🇪. Add the Norwegian 🇳🇴 mix in Scotland and Northern England and a bit of French 🇫🇷 in Southern England and Spanish 🇪🇸 in Wales and you have the British 🇬🇧.

  • @KateeAngel

    @KateeAngel

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, Celts are true Britons. Before the Stuarts the word "British" was used almost exclusively to talk about Brittonic Celts. New "British" identity was constructed after the union of England and Scotland

  • @KateeAngel

    @KateeAngel

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Dave-hu5hr Welsh are not Spanish, they are native Britons. Celtic culture in the iron age dispersed mostly through acculturation, and rather slowly, at least that is what archaeology shows, and the idea that Celts are from Iberia is only one and not the strongest hypothesis. Not to mention that being the most native among current ethnic groups still makes them native. It is like pathetic attempts of white Americans to say native Americans are "immigrants too" cause their ancestors migrated 30 thousand years ago (and then developed their whole cultures, languages, etc. right in America for around 1000 generations, which is certainly not the same as coming 500 years ago with pre-existing culture and language)

  • @Dave-hu5hr

    @Dave-hu5hr

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@KateeAngel Celts on this island are from Spain via central and northern Europe.. Some moved back to the continent and found a nice spot in a corner of France that probably reminded them of happy times in Cornwall and yes they are oldskool.

  • @Dave-hu5hr

    @Dave-hu5hr

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@pappenchrischan5775 People have legs so yes - just placing contemporary borders on it innit..

  • @baronvg
    @baronvg3 жыл бұрын

    Watching this, I was reminded that Diana was just 36 when she died. I was a teenager when it happened and now I’m older than she ever was. Time flies, man!

  • @MarionWeller

    @MarionWeller

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thought the same.

  • @sherryduggar8821

    @sherryduggar8821

    3 жыл бұрын

    Diana would be close to Camilla's age now.

  • @ivylasangrienta6093

    @ivylasangrienta6093

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sherryduggar8821 well not quite.

  • @tuikkur.5655

    @tuikkur.5655

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sherryduggar8821 Diana would be 59 years old now. Camilla is 73.

  • @katemaloney4296

    @katemaloney4296

    3 жыл бұрын

    I turn 51 in a week. When I do, I will be way older than Diana, Whitney Houston, and Michael Jackson. That's a weird feeling.

  • @evelynwashere13
    @evelynwashere133 жыл бұрын

    Wow, Diana had a lot of incest to try to fight. Even the Queen and Philip are cousins, sheesh......

  • @rosestanley9606

    @rosestanley9606

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah talk about keeping it in the family

  • @Harlanmote

    @Harlanmote

    3 жыл бұрын

    Royal hillbillies at best!!!!

  • @leonieromanes7265

    @leonieromanes7265

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yup, aristocratic banjo strummers.

  • @Chuck0856

    @Chuck0856

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hardly -- do your research first -- P and E were barely related and George and Elizabeth and Alice and Andrew not related.

  • @evacope1718

    @evacope1718

    3 жыл бұрын

    Diana was a noble and definitely had her fair share of inbreding, shes a descendant of Charles the first who was beheaded by Oliver Cromwell and his buds. We are all related in some way or another.

  • @johnherlihy4739
    @johnherlihy47393 жыл бұрын

    This was an interesting video! I loved the Queen Mary connection with Hungarians! Also, Diana 50% Irish! Fantastic! Catherine deserves credit for being the 1st Royal in generations to be British!

  • @katerinakemp5701

    @katerinakemp5701

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol but she is not.

  • @visenyatargaryen9130

    @visenyatargaryen9130

    Жыл бұрын

    Elizabeth Bowes Lyon was 100% British

  • @leahengland6704

    @leahengland6704

    Жыл бұрын

    @@katerinakemp5701 Catherine Princess of Wales is an English ❤

  • @Lauren.E.O
    @Lauren.E.O3 жыл бұрын

    Frederick getting his allowance cut: “You suck, Dad! I’m staying in my OWN court and you’re not invited! Nyeh! 😝”

  • @SungSNam

    @SungSNam

    3 жыл бұрын

    I know! It’s worse than what usually happens if you cut your child’s allowance

  • @Patrick3183

    @Patrick3183

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lauren O ummm

  • @kaydavis8587

    @kaydavis8587

    3 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂

  • @Justadisciple502

    @Justadisciple502

    3 жыл бұрын

    little "h" and his "duchess" want to keep their court in CA on daddy Charles allowance.

  • @loredanabianco8686

    @loredanabianco8686

    3 жыл бұрын

    '

  • @janmichaelsantos4055
    @janmichaelsantos40553 жыл бұрын

    Because of a "commoner" the British royal family will soon be more "British" 😜

  • @Chuck0856

    @Chuck0856

    3 жыл бұрын

    How can a family born, raised, and educated in Britain for generations be MORE British?

  • @parissanders1800

    @parissanders1800

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Chuck0856 genetically and phenotype wise they are German but culturally they are British

  • @ageofechochambers9469

    @ageofechochambers9469

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@parissanders1800 they are not German , prince Philip is Danish, queen mother was Scottish French. The German bit is a minority of their stock

  • @pedobear497

    @pedobear497

    3 жыл бұрын

    Age of echo chambers ! Prince Philip is a Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a side arm of the German house of Oldenstein. His mother was a Battenberg, called Mountbatten, a side arm of house Hessen. He is German.

  • @ageofechochambers9469

    @ageofechochambers9469

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@pedobear497 let's be clear all those houses lead to king christian the 1st of Denmark born 1426 died 1481 from the house of oldenburg . Now oldenburg is in Germany today but it doesn't mean it was always that way , all those duchies or palantine duchies you mentioned were in Germany but they were offspring of a danish king . What they carved up after the 1500s until the 1800s when they became kings of Denmark again doesn't make them German necessarily. Germany didn't exist, the alman or almains did . Napoleon is from corsica that's in Italy today but I haven't heard anyone say hes Italian. Almost all are Germanic ppl the Anglo Saxons, kings of france , kings of spain if you go back 1500 years . Even swedish people were apparently germanic tribes that migrated north and invaded northern sami ppl .

  • @ajdc88
    @ajdc88 Жыл бұрын

    this is fantastic work. thank you.

  • @remysimon6819
    @remysimon6819 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you. Well presented

  • @samirmuhammad1781
    @samirmuhammad17813 жыл бұрын

    8:34 say what? are you telling me that the british royal family is related to vampires? that explains the long life of the queen lol

  • @Edmonton-of2ec

    @Edmonton-of2ec

    3 жыл бұрын

    Technically speaking. The Queen is not a direct descendant of Vlad the Impaler, but a close relative of his

  • @dalesansom3780

    @dalesansom3780

    3 жыл бұрын

    Vlad the Impaler was not a vampire, they are fictional stories, but Vlad wasn’t a very good man.

  • @samirmuhammad1781

    @samirmuhammad1781

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dalesansom3780 lol we all know that's not true. Vampires don't exist. It was a joke I was making.

  • @dalesansom3780

    @dalesansom3780

    3 жыл бұрын

    I know that. But there are people who don’t know where the silly stories came from. Even Prince Charles has joked about it.

  • @dalesansom3780

    @dalesansom3780

    3 жыл бұрын

    Of course not. Just explained where the the silly stories came from, but there is some German ancestry. As there is among many Americans including a little bit in my family tree. This writer of vampires stories have a lot to do with it. .

  • @sharonp3563
    @sharonp35633 жыл бұрын

    I really enjoy watching these videos. Hands down the easiest royal ancestry videos to watch and learn from

  • @theemeraldfox7779

    @theemeraldfox7779

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yessss luv!

  • @henrygardner8418

    @henrygardner8418

    2 жыл бұрын

    They should be checked for accuracy.

  • @hispanicyoutubeperson6100
    @hispanicyoutubeperson61002 жыл бұрын

    11:10 I love how we call them “Romanovs” when they are actually from the german house of Holstein Gottorp, itself a cadet house of the also german house of Oldenburg, the current royal house of Denmark, Norway, and pretty sure the United Kingdom.

  • @ashtonupton413
    @ashtonupton413 Жыл бұрын

    Love this video. Always been Curious about their heritage.

  • @tamerakhdar9469
    @tamerakhdar94693 жыл бұрын

    When you are too early so there's no good comments to read.....

  • @carmendilcherd4765

    @carmendilcherd4765

    3 жыл бұрын

    But why do we feel the need to go right to the comments section and be nosey!!

  • @tamerakhdar9469

    @tamerakhdar9469

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@carmendilcherd4765 Of course, the video is the main reason people come to her channel, it's always nice to know what people have to say, and if you didn't go to the comment section right away, you wouldn't have replied to what I said.

  • @Tkidddd
    @Tkidddd3 жыл бұрын

    William the Conqueror of England, also known as William the bastard. Viking Blood

  • @lsmith9249

    @lsmith9249

    3 жыл бұрын

    kill Democrats he was a cousin of Edward the Confessor

  • @zuri2002

    @zuri2002

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@lsmith9249 through his mother, Emma of Normandy, not on the English side

  • @lsmith9249

    @lsmith9249

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@zuri2002 l know

  • @zuri2002

    @zuri2002

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@lsmith9249 sorry, I just meant that even though he was a cousin of Edward, he wouldn't normally have been eligible to inherit. 🙂

  • @lsmith9249

    @lsmith9249

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@zuri2002 No problem, its what l was thinking myself, but back then they thought differently, but King Harold was only Edward the Confessor's brother in law and he was only actually an Earl

  • @levi9193
    @levi91933 жыл бұрын

    You made me do something I've never done before; hit subscribe after watching a single video. This is amazing content.

  • @Chuck0856

    @Chuck0856

    3 жыл бұрын

    Be careful - -some of this is theory reported as fact.

  • @davidhoward2487

    @davidhoward2487

    3 жыл бұрын

    More mind blowing, Elvis was related somehow to the Queen!!

  • @mrah2423
    @mrah24233 жыл бұрын

    This was super interesting

  • @notheretoargue2885
    @notheretoargue28853 жыл бұрын

    Kate Middleton single-handedly fixing the "british" royal bloodline xD (this is a joke don't take it as an offense)

  • @DavBlc7

    @DavBlc7

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yep and it is said she may be a descendant of Charles II through one of his mistresses.

  • @franmellor9843

    @franmellor9843

    3 жыл бұрын

    Related to catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn amongst others

  • @earthlingalien439

    @earthlingalien439

    3 жыл бұрын

    But she is still related to William

  • @mau.lover23

    @mau.lover23

    3 жыл бұрын

    Diana did it

  • @cv4809

    @cv4809

    3 жыл бұрын

    More like ruining their pure german blodline 🤮

  • @cloudburstlia456
    @cloudburstlia4563 жыл бұрын

    Wait so the British parliament willingly handed over their thrown to some distant German cousin that didn’t even speak English?!? Lololol

  • @MrDaiseymay

    @MrDaiseymay

    3 жыл бұрын

    THEY ALWAYS PUT RELIGION FIRST, even a raving nutter will do, as long as he's not Catholic.

  • @billyjohnson7601

    @billyjohnson7601

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol... To Conquers, most of the time those conquers spoke french. The Normans and Plantagenets all spoke French, it was the language of the ruling class.

  • @Swift-mr5zi

    @Swift-mr5zi

    3 жыл бұрын

    They did it partly because parliament had most of the power and they wanted a weak monarch to prevent them trying to take back their power

  • @billyjohnson7601

    @billyjohnson7601

    3 жыл бұрын

    If it looked ( willing ) the king had good reason to watch his step. The old world was a bloody one and you could always find a new King.

  • @cloudburstlia456

    @cloudburstlia456

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@billyjohnson7601 yeah but they handed the crown to Germans not French

  • @janedoe805
    @janedoe8053 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, your video was extremely interesting. 👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

  • @aaronhamptman4102

    @aaronhamptman4102

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hello my lovely friend. how are you doing⚘⚘I really love your comment. Nice to meet you❤❤

  • @roinretrospect8388
    @roinretrospect83883 жыл бұрын

    Lindsay I love you so much !! Thank you again and again and again 💕

  • @spartancolonel
    @spartancolonel3 жыл бұрын

    Darling : I'm as British as Queen Victoria! Blackadder : So your father's German, you're half German, and you married a German

  • @millennialodyssey5956

    @millennialodyssey5956

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol right

  • @Collsy100
    @Collsy1003 жыл бұрын

    MAJOR KUDOS. The research and math necessary for this is the stuff of detective work. Such a great video and overall fascinating!

  • @ghostghost2295
    @ghostghost22953 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video

  • @insasiable
    @insasiable2 жыл бұрын

    I have been looking forward to more of these. I don’t know but I enjoy family trees of royals.

  • @MadisonHartinWeather
    @MadisonHartinWeather3 жыл бұрын

    Okay so I started watching your videos when I had bad insomnia. Your voice is really calming and helped ease my anxiety. Now anytime I watch your videos this wave of calm just washes over me. Thank you love your videos!

  • @LindsayHoliday

    @LindsayHoliday

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wow, thanks! I'm so glad I can help you!

  • @pappenchrischan5775
    @pappenchrischan57753 жыл бұрын

    The ancestors of the English in general are all Germanic. Accordingly, an English line, is a German line.

  • @receivedSE

    @receivedSE

    3 жыл бұрын

    The ancestors of the Dutch are German, too. In their national anthem it is stated: "Wilhelmus van Nassouwe ben ick van Duytschen bloet".

  • @gjok8785

    @gjok8785

    3 жыл бұрын

    the language is Germanic as well

  • @user-jw8yk9ki1r

    @user-jw8yk9ki1r

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wow😳

  • @raleighburner1589

    @raleighburner1589

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oi. ..Roman here ...what have the Germans ever done for us ...

  • @masonmccarty8551

    @masonmccarty8551

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@raleighburner1589 brought us to England and invade it from the the true brittish people the Irish

  • @declancarroll1799
    @declancarroll17993 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating history. Thank you.

  • @mariashouse5492
    @mariashouse54923 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating video! Very educational.

  • @aaronhamptman4102

    @aaronhamptman4102

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hello my lovely friend. how are you doing⚘⚘I really love your comment. Nice to meet you❤❤🍒

  • @TsetsiStoyanova
    @TsetsiStoyanova3 жыл бұрын

    still doesn’t change the fact that all of them look like George Bush

  • @jjamesfraley2903

    @jjamesfraley2903

    3 жыл бұрын

    I wonder why? Hmm. lol.

  • @Argouththeterrible

    @Argouththeterrible

    3 жыл бұрын

    George Bush have Dutch and German ancestry

  • @GodListens77

    @GodListens77

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jjamesfraley2903 they are 11th cousins or something like that. They are all related! Crazy

  • @jjamesfraley2903

    @jjamesfraley2903

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@GodListens77 Since the beginning of time.

  • @jjamesfraley2903

    @jjamesfraley2903

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes. DNA doesn't lie.

  • @robins.1919
    @robins.19193 жыл бұрын

    Actually the housename change from Hanover to Saxe-Coburg and Gotha with the death of Victoria in 1901. She were still a hanoverian, the first of Saxe-Coburg and Gothe was her son.

  • @lenybouwman5121

    @lenybouwman5121

    3 жыл бұрын

    I tougt Victoria chose the name of her husband, Prince Albert after their wedding?

  • @keinedaten1640

    @keinedaten1640

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lenybouwman5121 No, not what I read. The family name of the Saxen-Coburg-Gothas was Wettin. But she choose to stick with her own name. If we talk about titles: Albert just kept his titles and therefore she was by marriage also a Princess of Saxen-Coburg-Gotha.

  • @lenybouwman5121

    @lenybouwman5121

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@keinedaten1640 then why the Royal family changed their name from Saxen Coburg Gotha into Windsor during the Great War because it sounded to German?

  • @sullivanl3305

    @sullivanl3305

    Жыл бұрын

    @@lenybouwman5121 Anti-German sentiment at the time was high, so a change was necessary

  • @tylerbozinovski427

    @tylerbozinovski427

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@lenybouwman5121Because she was already dead by then lol.

  • @raqueltzuc8265
    @raqueltzuc82653 жыл бұрын

    Great video!

  • @coolwater55
    @coolwater553 жыл бұрын

    Very fascinating. My half sister's Dad is somehow related to Bowes Lyon line.

  • @hutgirl666
    @hutgirl6663 жыл бұрын

    You make these facts so clear and easy to understand. I have a hard time learning lots of info in a short amount of time so I appreciate your videos!

  • @will-qw1tk
    @will-qw1tk3 жыл бұрын

    I mean if you look at it, they all related to Queen Victoria who infact was married to Prince Albert who was the Duke of Sax Coberg And Gotha who was German and her mother was also German so yes they are slightly German.

  • @marcocognome1835

    @marcocognome1835

    3 жыл бұрын

    Aparently they are aslo distant relative of Maria Theresa

  • @Lulu-ut9pv

    @Lulu-ut9pv

    3 жыл бұрын

    Dont forget being the desentant of Sophia of Hanover who was Anne's heir

  • @yourmotherahha9486

    @yourmotherahha9486

    3 жыл бұрын

    Slightly? Please

  • @Patrick3183

    @Patrick3183

    3 жыл бұрын

    Prince Albert wasn’t the Duke

  • @speedy806

    @speedy806

    3 жыл бұрын

    Patrick3183 wasn’t it his brother?

  • @alikurdi
    @alikurdi3 жыл бұрын

    Yes I enjoyed this video and did subscribed

  • @Whammyxxd
    @Whammyxxd3 жыл бұрын

    Wait are you telling me they are related to Dracula? Oh my god~

  • @annmitchell4663

    @annmitchell4663

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well considering Dracula is fiction..no.

  • @howtowanderlust

    @howtowanderlust

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@annmitchell4663 oh yeah?..

  • @fadhil2831

    @fadhil2831

    3 жыл бұрын

    That the secret of immortality

  • @TheBlackfall234

    @TheBlackfall234

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@annmitchell4663 Dracula is not fiction at all. Lord Vladimir Dracul. The Impaler. He was a very real person.

  • @annabethsarskullflower9623
    @annabethsarskullflower96233 жыл бұрын

    Love your videos! This one was a particular favourite. Thank you for making them. They are always very interesting and fun to watch x

  • @nunobatista2398
    @nunobatista23983 жыл бұрын

    The wife of George III most likely did not have a single drop of African blood (DNA) in her veins, I do not know where that comes from but I will elaborate. There is a lot of speculation regarding the origins of Madragana (if that was really her name), we know nothing for sure but what was most likely was that she was the daughter of the ruler of the small taifa of the Algarve region of Portugal. Madragana's father was the member of a dynasty which was mozarab (iberian natives who converted to Islam) in origin although it is very likely that there was intermarriage with berber women from north africa and there should also be trace amounts of arabic DNA from the Umayads and other Arabic nobles who belonged to the moorish aristocracy. Madragana's mother is completely unknown to history and could have been really anyone but she was probably a concubine (likely of local stock) or a member of the moorish aristocracy. Still, there were lots of genealogists who claimed that she was a portuguese woman whom the king Afonso III fell in love with. The name which she was recorded in contemporary recorded was Mor Afonso, friend (lover) of king Afonso III of Portugal. In conclusion, even if she was really a moorish princess which is actually likely, she would be of mostly iberian (portuguese and spanish) with some north-african berber or amazig admixture which would always translate to a caucasoid appearance. Then, there are 15 generations who set them apart making it impossible that even if the lover of King Afonso III was of subsaharan descent her descendent the wife of George III would have close to 0% if not really 0% of her DNA. For comparison look for the pictures of the descendents of Gannibal (a russian noble of african birth) to see what I mean, after some 7 generations you would never guess his descendents are part african.

  • @001islandprincess

    @001islandprincess

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nuno Batista Greetings. DNA inheritance only goes back 6-7 generations. Therefore it is certain that Queen Charlotte had no African DNA, whether North African or West African. Also, genealogists have calculated she would have 0.067% African ancestry if this alleged ancestor existed.

  • @psychedelicyeti6053

    @psychedelicyeti6053

    3 жыл бұрын

    Whether she is or isn't, this is still a very interesting piece of history imo 👍 great posts

  • @lynnebarnes5645

    @lynnebarnes5645

    3 жыл бұрын

    I am registered with my iwi (tribe) in New Zealand. I have blonde hair and blue eyes, but, my bloodline threads back to my 5 times great grandmother, who was full Maori.

  • @mauricealexander3834

    @mauricealexander3834

    3 жыл бұрын

    001islandprincess Go and get a copy of Antonia Fraser’s King Charles ll the word Swarthy is used which means BLACK you don’t know what your talking about.

  • @joekerr9197

    @joekerr9197

    3 жыл бұрын

    Indeed. And in fact Charlotte was painted by Allan Ramsay, probably the best portrait painter even in entire Europe at that time who was famous for the fact he painted ppl extremely realistically and without bias. The only reason why these stupid rumors exist is because some guy (contemporary of Charlotte) wrote that she had lips and nostrils that supposedly reminded him of sub-Saharan Africans (not to use some other words that YT will surely censor and delete my post) or in other words she had pouty lips and according to him nostrils that were larger than what he considered usual...I mean it's ridiculous stuff. Then ofc you get this stupid theory about a black Moorish descent which is IMO totally made up story by some American who obviously had no clue what he was talking about... All in all ridiculous stuff...

  • @myrahouse2368
    @myrahouse23683 жыл бұрын

    Go and learn how the first King civilised Great Britain, he was respected. The Monarchy has incredible History and brings Tourism to London. Princess Alice is one of the most epic life story’s I’ve ever heard.

  • @DarkSwan01
    @DarkSwan013 жыл бұрын

    around the 6:36 mark, Albert is labeled as someone else on the chart. In case anyone has not mentioned it.

  • @Lauren.E.O
    @Lauren.E.O3 жыл бұрын

    Mary of Tek was related to the guy who inspired *DRACULA?!*

  • @Edmonton-of2ec

    @Edmonton-of2ec

    3 жыл бұрын

    No, her grandmother was related to a relative of Vlad the Impaler. Queen Mary is not a direct descendant of him.

  • @veljkobogdanovic609

    @veljkobogdanovic609

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Edmonton-of2ec I think she is a desandent of his younger brother but I am not sure maybe even she descends from a cousin of Vlad the inpailer

  • @tracyleesmith781

    @tracyleesmith781

    3 жыл бұрын

    Check out UsefulChart channel for Vlad the Impaler. It was very interesting!

  • @roddo1955

    @roddo1955

    3 жыл бұрын

    Calm down; she wasn't the only one....We are with many. We can walk unbothered in daylight, can look upon and touch crucifixes, love garlic, eat food, have a reflection. But yes: we do drink the blood of the meek and innocent to stay alive. That's why we rotate staff so often; There is only so much blood you can drink from a footman before he starts looking anemic and getting all lightheaded and dropping cups of blooded-tea all over the palace. No; one must economize and rotate one's workforce staff to ensure a ready supply of human blood without too much fuss.

  • @franmellor9843

    @franmellor9843

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@veljkobogdanovic609 you are right about the brother

  • @XenonFae
    @XenonFae3 жыл бұрын

    Looking at the Names of the Royal Houses that have held the English Throne since William the Conqueror: House of Normandy (from France) House of Blois (from France) House of Anjou (from France) House of Plantagenet (from France) House of Lancaster (technically still House Plantagenet) House of York (technically still House Plantagenet) House of Tudor (from Wales) House of Stuart (from Scotland) House of Hanover (from Germany) House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (from Germany) House of Windsor (technically still House Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) We would have to go back before the Norman Conquest to get a true ‘English’ House (the House of Wessex) on the Throne of England. Yet, I would argue that (nearly) every Monarch that has sat the English Throne HAS been English, regardless of their heritage, because they accepted responsibility for reigning over the domain of England, and standing up for English interests (again, putting the ‘nearly’ caveat there to account for the complete failures as Monarchs who did not Stand for England). To me, that is what truly makes them English.

  • @XenonFae

    @XenonFae

    3 жыл бұрын

    Kyle S. Very true. Every English Monarch since Empress Matilda has been a descendant of Alfred the Great (as well as William the Conqueror and even Charlemagne). So the English, Anglo-Saxon Heritage is still there, no matter how distant. More proof that regardless of House name, or more recent heritage, the English Monarch is still English.

  • @Edmonton-of2ec

    @Edmonton-of2ec

    3 жыл бұрын

    Actually, by technical patrilineal descent (which is still standard for Royal Houses), the current Royal House is actually either (depending on what metric you use) the House of Mountbatten (technically still the House of Battenberg) or the (confusingly named) Royal House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, usually shortened to Glücksburg.

  • @ragingsage3973

    @ragingsage3973

    3 жыл бұрын

    The House of Anjou/Plantagenet are the same Royal House

  • @StephanFitzgeraldTay

    @StephanFitzgeraldTay

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Edmonton-of2ec The British Royal Family has opted to not follow that by stating that Phillip married into their family, not vice versa, so the name remains as it was-- Windsor (formerly Saxe-Coburg and Gotha)

  • @Edmonton-of2ec

    @Edmonton-of2ec

    3 жыл бұрын

    Stephan Taylor I quite literally emphasized TECHNICAL. Just like how the Royal House of the Netherlands is technically the German House of Amsberg and the the Royal House of Luxembourg is technically the House of Bourbon-Parma, but from a legal standpoint they’re the Houses of Orange-Nassau and Nassau-Weilburg respectively, at least in the cognatic lines

  • @joerogers9413
    @joerogers94133 жыл бұрын

    So... you're just going to brush over the fact that the Queen of England is related to the King of the Vampires? 👀

  • @joerogers9413

    @joerogers9413

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Claire Wojodubokowski Not to brag, but I am an expert on vampires....but you're right, Vlad the Impaler probably wasn't a vampire. Although there are stories of Dracula feasting beneath impaled Turks and dipping bread in their blood and eating it....so who's to say. Also, you're thinking of Elizabeth Bathory.

  • @davidhoward2487

    @davidhoward2487

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Claire Wojodubokowski And now today there are those who claim Elizabeth ll drinks blood..Or, is a 1,000 old lizard who sheds it's skin...

  • @ireneyarigin6691
    @ireneyarigin66913 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for this interesting and most fascinating information! ❤️👍💐

  • @Patrick3183
    @Patrick31833 жыл бұрын

    The German has been washed out with the native British blood from Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Diana Spencer and Catherine Middleton.

  • @Patrick3183

    @Patrick3183

    3 жыл бұрын

    PS. It’s upsetting that you chose to include Markle in the thumbnail image. She is no longer a part of the family. Her actions and intentions disrespected the entire family and the institution of the monarchy itself. She is vile.

  • @CallieMasters5000

    @CallieMasters5000

    3 жыл бұрын

    Her kid is still in line to the throne. They didn't give that up.

  • @marcocognome1835

    @marcocognome1835

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@CallieMasters5000 true

  • @lightyagami3492

    @lightyagami3492

    3 жыл бұрын

    @J C Ruby even then nothing will change the genealogy.

  • @unamed2516

    @unamed2516

    3 жыл бұрын

    Patrick3183 Yes she is.

  • @dannyp2058
    @dannyp20583 жыл бұрын

    This was put together really well and all the pronunciations of the names was brilliant, great video thank you.

  • @johnbrereton5229
    @johnbrereton52293 жыл бұрын

    Alfred the Great goes all the way back to 849 AD not 1066. 1066 is when William the Conqueror became King.

  • @jennifermark-smith9988
    @jennifermark-smith9988 Жыл бұрын

    I just noticed that the name under Prince Albert’s picture says Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 6:22 💀

  • @yadirauribe7631
    @yadirauribe76313 жыл бұрын

    Very much so The Romanov where not distance relatives In fact they where VERY CLOSE!!!

  • @MrWilhelm1950

    @MrWilhelm1950

    3 жыл бұрын

    George V was the first cousin of Czar Nicholas II of Russia. The mothers of both men were sisters, the daughters of King Christian IX of Denmark. George V was also the first cousin of Czar Nicholas II's wife, The Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna. George V's father, Edward VIII, and The Czarina's mother, Princess Alice (later The Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine) were both the children of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

  • @robertagardner5461

    @robertagardner5461

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MrWilhelm1950 Edward VIII had no children. His wife was Wallace Simpson..

  • @MrWilhelm1950

    @MrWilhelm1950

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@robertagardner5461 You are right, ma'am. "Edward VIII was a typo - it should have read "Edward VII". Thanks for pointing that out!

  • @joycebrown1413

    @joycebrown1413

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@robertagardner5461 Meant to be King Edward Vll not Edward Vlll An honest mistake

  • @robertagardner5461

    @robertagardner5461

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@joycebrown1413 You must be a very busy lady! lol refer to above^

  • @MM-le9en
    @MM-le9en3 жыл бұрын

    this is more interesting than The Crown from Netflix, thank you for your video Lindsay Holiday!!! 😎😎😎

  • @sqseq1237
    @sqseq1237 Жыл бұрын

    Queen Anne actually died in 1714. She had 17 pregnancies, but none of them lived long. Only three of her kids died of illnesses unrelated to childbirth.

  • @bessangma9068
    @bessangma90683 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting... history will keep royal heritage alive ❤️❤️❤️

  • @CallieMasters5000
    @CallieMasters50003 жыл бұрын

    Did this take a lot of work, especially to check the geneologies of all the brides marrying into the family?

  • @mercel9778

    @mercel9778

    3 жыл бұрын

    They were mostly related anyway, cousins married to cousins.

  • @jec1ny

    @jec1ny

    3 жыл бұрын

    Since this is not the sort of stuff generally taught in high school, I'd say yes. There was probably some research involved.

  • @TakittyLove

    @TakittyLove

    3 жыл бұрын

    even find my own ancestors and elaborate my family tree(I have could get 7generations above me) is so difficult, this video is a master play. Yes, it takes a lot of work.

  • @stablefairy9437

    @stablefairy9437

    3 жыл бұрын

    cant imagine it took THAT much work. if you have any knowledge of the royal family going back to Victoria you would know most of this already

  • @keinedaten1640

    @keinedaten1640

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TakittyLove Tracing back own ancestors is usually much harder than to trace royal ancestrys. The royals kept their family trees, so it is usually already written somewhere. But it is nice that the person put it on youtube.

  • @lallyoisin
    @lallyoisin3 жыл бұрын

    they may have dodged the Catholics but the ginger still survived! 🤣🤣

  • @leonieromanes7265

    @leonieromanes7265

    3 жыл бұрын

    Diana was half Irish 🙂💚☘

  • @lallyoisin

    @lallyoisin

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@leonieromanes7265 the name comes from Ireland too. Irish: Dé/Dia = deity and Ana/Anu is the most ancient goddess here! Dia-ana/Dé-anu. We have to say it's Roman though cause people prefer their info from their masters😉🤭 Peace!

  • @wilhelmjosephus4830

    @wilhelmjosephus4830

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@lallyoisin Diana, as far as I am aware, was a Greco-Roman deity. She might have been worshipped in Ireland, but its origin was Greco-Roman. The Apostle Paul, for instance, if you check the book of Acts, once was almost killed by a roaring crowd who worshipped Diana

  • @johnpatrick5307

    @johnpatrick5307

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@leonieromanes7265 Yes - and she got her looks from the Irish! The Roche looks are a complete standout amongst royalty.

  • @johnpatrick5307

    @johnpatrick5307

    3 жыл бұрын

    And, of course, Queen Elizabeth was half a gael!

  • @nevercatchwind
    @nevercatchwind3 жыл бұрын

    Just today thanks to a diffrent channel on yt I discovered a plagę Entitree and Deicide to try it out with one of my favourite monarch from my country Casimir the Great of Poland. He had no sons, loved in the XIV century, but I tracę his descendants through his daughter Elizabeth and one of the brsnches lead me to Prince Albert husband of Queen Victoria, who was 18 generations apart from king Casimir. His daughter married foreign princes and their line became German.

  • @liqahussain
    @liqahussain Жыл бұрын

    Coffin in German made car.. Queen certainly did not approve of Brexit.. died in Balamore castle in Scotland built by her German ancestor. In her death even she made a point that Brexit was wrong ..

  • @nepumocenallido8445
    @nepumocenallido84453 жыл бұрын

    Love your voice.when I hear your voice Seems like you never have a problem you encounter and it's like the tone of your voice Seems you never like to bad mouth. Peace and love to you Ma'am 😇

  • @alwellus
    @alwellus3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, we are indeed German descended. My great grandmother was 1/256 British; she was born in 1877. She married a German Grand Duke as well. My grandfather was a Serene Highness until 1917, when we lost our German titles, rank and dignity.

  • @rivenoak

    @rivenoak

    Жыл бұрын

    your ancestors were entitled to keep the rank as part of the name which is more than pleasant

  • @alwellus

    @alwellus

    Жыл бұрын

    @@rivenoak I have kept up with many of German relations - I seem to be the only one to do so.

  • @cpj93070

    @cpj93070

    5 ай бұрын

    @@alwellus We (the British population) didn't want anything to do we Germany in WW1 we became very anti German that's why you had to change all your royal titles is English sounding names, or you lot would have been in deep deep trouble.

  • @robertmastnak581
    @robertmastnak5813 жыл бұрын

    Thx, very interesting facts...

  • @AbdullahKhan-sl7kb
    @AbdullahKhan-sl7kb3 жыл бұрын

    If you go further back, they are all Scandinavian, even William the conquer had viking ancestry

  • @lecomicsans995

    @lecomicsans995

    2 жыл бұрын

    William the conqueror obviously had viking ancestry, the Normans were frenchified Norwegians lmao

  • @TheBlackfall234

    @TheBlackfall234

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lecomicsans995 and frenchified means more like frankenfied. Cause the French we know today was founded by the Franken. A Germanic Tribe. French people still deny that tho.