How German is the Royal family? is a question that has been searched on Google with surprising regularity.
Queen Victoria was famously known as the “grandmother of Europe” and it was her marriage to the German Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha that cemented the British monarchy’s German ties.
They first began with the 1714 crowning of George I of Hanover - an English “king” who barely spoke any English.
Victoria made sure her children married into other European royal courts - and today her descendants sit on the throne in many European royal houses, including Queen Margrethe of Denmark and kings Harald of Norway and Carl Gustav of Sweden.
When Victoria’s grandson, George V, succeeded Edward VII as King in 1910, he married Maria von Teck, who also had German blood. His reign coincided with the First World War waged against his cousin, German emperor Wilhelm II.
As attitudes to Germany soured in Britain, George V changed the German family name to Windsor and renounced all German titles, as did his cousin Ludwig von Battenberg, who renamed his family Mountbatten.
Prince Philip came from this family and when he married George V's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II, he relinquished his German title of nobility. Yet he had predominantly German ancestors and spoke fluent German.
He wanted both sides of his family represented when he was laid to rest - and as a result, three of his German relatives were among the 30 handpicked guests at his funeral at Windsor Castle in 2021.
Bernhard, the hereditary prince of Baden, 52, who is the grandson of Philip’s sister Theodora, was present along with Donatus, 56, who is prince and head of the house of Hesse, into which the late Duke’s sister Cecile married. And Prince Philipp of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 53, who is the grandson of Philip’s elder sister Princess Margarita, was also present for the ceremony at St George’s Chapel.
To this day, the Royal family still continues some of the traditions of its German ancestors in private, including exchanging gifts on Christmas Eve.
So the answer to the question "how German is the Royal family" is: sehr (very). The King has a bloodline made up of roughly half German ancestors.
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