Why are so many European royal families German?
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This includes the future Frederik IX of Denmark (the current Queen of Denmark's father, born 1899, Olav V of Norway (likewise the current King of Norway's father, born 1903, and also Kings Alexander I (born 1893, George II (born 1890, and Paul I (born 1901) of Greece.
Date: 2022-08-25
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H.
The part about Greece is flawed to say the least. The current royal lineage (which is royal in name only) is not descended from Otto of Bavaria. King George I became king seeing as the Great Powers didn't want Prince Albert of England to be named king. George I was a danish prince, and reigned from 1863 to 1913. He was assassinated and his son, Constantin I, took the throne. After quite a messy time of revolution in Greece, the monarchy was finally abolished in 1973.
Constantine II styles himself King of Greece and his wife Queen Anne-Marie (sister of currently Danish Queen Margrethe II)
Otto of Bavaria ruled Greece for 30 years but was overthrown and a new family was installed instead.
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The part about Greece is flawed to say the least. The current royal lineage (which is royal in name only) is not descended from Otto of Bavaria. King George I became king seeing as the Great Powers didn't want Prince Albert of England to be named king. George I was a danish prince, and reigned from 1863 to 1913. He was assassinated and his son, Constantin I, took the throne. After quite a messy time of revolution in Greece, the monarchy was finally abolished in 1973.
Constantine II styles himself King of Greece and his wife Queen Anne-Marie (sister of currently Danish Queen Margrethe II)
Otto of Bavaria ruled Greece for 30 years but was overthrown and a new family was installed instead.
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Franklin
Finland too wanted a German king when it got Independence in 1917. It was a sort of thank you to Germany for their assistance in The Finnish civil war.
Candidates were numerous, including the Crown Prince of Germany, who the Kaiser refused as he kinda needs and heir too. So we landed with Friedrich Karl of Hessen, the Kaiser's brother in law. Corinations were set and Friedrich was packing his bags until Germany lost WW1. And the Finns boldly stated that they don't speak loser.
So then they just said F ck it, guess we'll be a republic
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Finland too wanted a German king when it got Independence in 1917. It was a sort of thank you to Germany for their assistance in The Finnish civil war.
Candidates were numerous, including the Crown Prince of Germany, who the Kaiser refused as he kinda needs and heir too. So we landed with Friedrich Karl of Hessen, the Kaiser's brother in law. Corinations were set and Friedrich was packing his bags until Germany lost WW1. And the Finns boldly stated that they don't speak loser.
So then they just said F ck it, guess we'll be a republic
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Clarence
Let's not forget that the Wittelsbach branch in Greece lasted for. one monarch! Otto had to abdicate because he was terrible and not willing to convert to Orthodox christianity. But the next monarch chosen was a relative of the king of Denmark, which is also of German origin. And this branch last until they were overthrown in 1973.
Also, no mention of Luxembourg and Albania (Albania? And the Netherlands, with the Orange-Nassau dynasty should be mentioned, wouldn't it?
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Let's not forget that the Wittelsbach branch in Greece lasted for. one monarch! Otto had to abdicate because he was terrible and not willing to convert to Orthodox christianity. But the next monarch chosen was a relative of the king of Denmark, which is also of German origin. And this branch last until they were overthrown in 1973.
Also, no mention of Luxembourg and Albania (Albania? And the Netherlands, with the Orange-Nassau dynasty should be mentioned, wouldn't it?
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education
On the perspective of equating Genetic-Reproduction with Racial-Propagation (via Natural Selection and that Selfish Gene statement, who would have guessed that the excessive decentralization of the so-called Holy Roman Empire's individual states allowed the nobility of the German race to be easily married off to whoever they want to, thus giving the throne of many countries. Why does that remind me of how viruses and/or parasitic spores in the natural world work?
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On the perspective of equating Genetic-Reproduction with Racial-Propagation (via Natural Selection and that Selfish Gene statement, who would have guessed that the excessive decentralization of the so-called Holy Roman Empire's individual states allowed the nobility of the German race to be easily married off to whoever they want to, thus giving the throne of many countries. Why does that remind me of how viruses and/or parasitic spores in the natural world work?
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Commodore
A lot of small countries means a lot of royal families and all those royal families have princes and princesses trying to marry into other royal families. I will say the Catholic country royal families are a little more Italian cause the Italian aristocracy was pretty large too and only a minority of Germans were Catholic but yeah the Protestants they are basically just Germans.
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A lot of small countries means a lot of royal families and all those royal families have princes and princesses trying to marry into other royal families. I will say the Catholic country royal families are a little more Italian cause the Italian aristocracy was pretty large too and only a minority of Germans were Catholic but yeah the Protestants they are basically just Germans.
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Jan
I would object to classifying Habsburgs as Germans. And Austrians as Germans. And definitively not Czechs; as one of your map suggests, being part of HRE doesn't make you German.
Habsburgs were mostly Austrians and Spanish, not Germans. Any Austrians to comment on that?
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I would object to classifying Habsburgs as Germans. And Austrians as Germans. And definitively not Czechs; as one of your map suggests, being part of HRE doesn't make you German.
Habsburgs were mostly Austrians and Spanish, not Germans. Any Austrians to comment on that?
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Tobias
For a very long time there was also a very lose definition of what Germany was. If you are generous it would include essentially most of central Europe, but that's not what we are using now. I am quite sure a lot of Austrians no longer consider themselves German.
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For a very long time there was also a very lose definition of what Germany was. If you are generous it would include essentially most of central Europe, but that's not what we are using now. I am quite sure a lot of Austrians no longer consider themselves German.
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ShawnFrostFN
Am i wrong or is the dutch royal family also german? 'this is the first sentence of the dutch anthem Wilhelmus van Nassouwe
Ben ick van Duytschen Bloedt, that translates to wilhelmus van nassouwe (first ever dutch king( i am from german blood
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Am i wrong or is the dutch royal family also german? 'this is the first sentence of the dutch anthem Wilhelmus van Nassouwe
Ben ick van Duytschen Bloedt, that translates to wilhelmus van nassouwe (first ever dutch king( i am from german blood
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Nomenour
Just a little error or precision (depending on who you ask) the Austria Hungary dynasty is de Lorraine (Habsburg-Lorraine) and so it could be considered to be a French dynasty and not a German one, but not everyone agrees on this definition.
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Just a little error or precision (depending on who you ask) the Austria Hungary dynasty is de Lorraine (Habsburg-Lorraine) and so it could be considered to be a French dynasty and not a German one, but not everyone agrees on this definition.
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education
My favorite bit of related history is that the Swedish Royal Family are not Swedish or even German but French as the throne was offered to one of Napoleons Marshals Jean Bernadotte who started off his career as a Private soldier.
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My favorite bit of related history is that the Swedish Royal Family are not Swedish or even German but French as the throne was offered to one of Napoleons Marshals Jean Bernadotte who started off his career as a Private soldier.
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Houssam
is it me or is the speech slower in recent videos?
Also you forgot to mention the most recent monarch of them all, and who I suspect is also for German/French origin. The sovereign of the internet:
James Bisonette I
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is it me or is the speech slower in recent videos?
Also you forgot to mention the most recent monarch of them all, and who I suspect is also for German/French origin. The sovereign of the internet:
James Bisonette I
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Knez
Serbs overall had three native dynasties. until we kind of shot one of them. We could've gotten a foreign one or even a republic after the litle oopsie, but it was easier and safer just to invite the Karadjordjevic dynasty
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Serbs overall had three native dynasties. until we kind of shot one of them. We could've gotten a foreign one or even a republic after the litle oopsie, but it was easier and safer just to invite the Karadjordjevic dynasty
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Jed
After all of the and they died childless, I see now that the short version of why there are so many German monarchs is that they are really really good at having kids. Because, you know, German is the language of romance.
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After all of the and they died childless, I see now that the short version of why there are so many German monarchs is that they are really really good at having kids. Because, you know, German is the language of romance.
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