How Scottish are The British Royal Family? 

Before I watch this: Isn't the British Royal Family almost completely German since Georgian times? Just look at the family names involved: Hannover, Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (later changed to Windsor), Battenberg (literally translated to Mountbatten), Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

Just curious, have you seen the trailer for the Richard III movie about finding his body? Are you in it!? Watch the trailer, you'll see what I mean. The lost King.

Funny that Elizabeth Windsor died in Scotland

@@gustavmeyrink_2.0 If you actually watch it you’ll find out. 😉

Don’t forget Faith... that’s also why “ Who Is In Power”!!!

Wears great t-shirts🙃😊

I have a strong feeling this guy knows much more than Scottish history

Get him a large coffee ☕️

@@margerykirner5604 I can't even imagine understanding maths and physics let alone teaching it for years. How Bruce kept his sense of humour is beyond me!

100% and very glad to hear this from a Scotsman.

Living here in the States I had a good chuckle at that as well.

@@WickedKingLycoan good. It is crazy that people stateside have to go into huge debt because of medical expenses when well it’s not perfect the national health service over here means that people get the bulk of the medical attention they need which is paid for out of peoples taxes.

@@alistairjamesheaton9155 : Yes. I’m afraid that it is true. I hate going to get medical attention for fear of the debts that might accrue.

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It's a 60-30-10 issue here in the States. 60% of us know the current system is failing and want to nationalize it. 30% of us are doing just fine and don't want the government taking over our lives, thank you very much. And 10% of us are too f'ing busy working our 3rd job to have an opinion. Since the American right is more about ideological absolutes, you cannot even negotiate the issue with them, and they will demonize "Obamacare" even though in the 90s it was the right's answer to nationalization of health care. It's all a bunch of nonsense and you won't offend the majority of Americans with a crack like that.

Its her job !

Yes but she does it with a smile on her face & she definitely celebrated Scotland beating England love The Princess Royal she works so hard & is a great ambassador for the 🇬🇧

True and she's the only one we have time for in this house but it also shows our relative importance.

I hope you have an amazing time when you come and see some of the beautiful places we have here in Bonnie Scotland 👌🏻 We have them by the plenty ✌🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🫶🏻

She's easy swayed😜

It was no accident that in 1992, the Princess Royal's 2nd marriage took place at Balmoral so Her Majesty could attend the wedding (which she wanted to do since she loved her daughter and was fond of Sir Timothy Laurence) as the bride's mother without being called on for being there as a Supreme Governor of the Church of England which didn't recognize remarriages of divorced folks.

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Protestant, not Presbyterian

@@Jazzinthedark84 no Presbyterian the Church os Scotland is Presbyterian in form of government as opposed to Anglican who's is Episcopalian in it's government. Both are Protestant

Just to add that a trip to Heidelberg castle is well worth it (if you can manage the steps!). Check out the Wine Barrel

@@colinprice712 Good to know!

As a Scot I'm dismayed that I didn't know this and how the Bruce line became the Stewart line etc. Well done Bruce for teaching me something new today. Thankyou

Lol, each time I see "ETA" written it reminds me the Basques

@@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 Every time someone writes "LOL" in reaction to something I've written, I feel like they're mocking me. I hope you're not and just commenting with a silly thought in your head that has nothing to do with me personally.

You are right about Victoria and Albert's relationship, but Victoria's father was pretty solidly German as well, really: George I was German, and his all his successors married German princesses. Elizabeth and Philip were also related via George III and again via Christian IX of Denmark.

Philipp also was of German descent, one of them ending on the throne of Greece Technically Charles is a Von Battenberg, as that was the birth name of his father.

Glad to help

Stewart is a pretty common surname outside Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿.

Well I'm Scottish, born and bred, ancestry and all and I'm sick of every Tom Dick and Harry claiming they are Scottish. I've traced my ancestry all the way back to the picts and im tired of everyone claiming they're Scottish because they ate a haggis

Why.. what’s your problem Scot’s traveled far & wide there’s millions out there with Scottish ancestry I’m 83% Irish Scottish & Welsh with a little Italian & Baltic thrown into the mix .

@@theGhostofRoberttheBruce I’m a Stewart born in America and have been researching my Stewart heritage. Same as you I can say I’m proud to be an American and my Scottish heritage. We’re planning a trip to Scotland this summer actually.

I'm also from Georgia USA and still can't get over the death of HRH Queen Elizabeth II. My sister and bro in law are joining me for the Highland Games in Stone Mountain in 10 days.

Aye, but did they tell you about the Hanovarians slaughtering all the Stuart wounded and those taken prisoner? Did they tell about the subsequent raping and pillaging across Scotland, etc.? Possibly not.

It was a Jacobite vs. British Government battle. There were Jacobites fighting from all four countries of the UK, and those fighting in the British Army were also from all four countries. It wasn’t Scots vs. English, or Catholics vs. Protestants, and it certainly wasn’t a battle for Scottish independence as so many claim. If the Jacobite line had been restored they had no plan to break up the UK. The act of Union was Queen Anne enacting something James VI & I had wanted to do from the start.

@@sandormccann2546 But some of the Scots fighting in the British Army committed the worst atrocities after Culloden.

@@ffotograffydd That's true 👍

@@ffotograffydd Sorry, does the fact that there were Scots on the Hanoverian side somehow absolve the Duke of Cumberland from blame for ordering war crimes to be committed? I don't really care what caused the war and what the outcome would have been had Charlie won. I don't rate the Stuart monarchs very highly at all, so we probably dodged a bullet on that one but the wanton raping and pillaging, destruction of property and horrific crimes committed against innocent people are why we call the union flag 'The Butcher's Apron' in Scotland. Atrocities were committed against totally innocent and sometimes Hanoverian targets just to subdue the Scots to the point where they would ever again present any kind of threat. The same, heavy-handed brutality was used by the British right around the world.

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No. She didn't. Sorry, but that's simply not true no matter how much you might want it to be. The royals (like every other royal family in Europe, is made up of many different nationalities). Absolutely HM loved Scotland, and I think that's why the Scots like her is because she loves Scotland. It doesn't matter what 'blood' she has (only in so much as it matters for continuity of the crown). I mean, there's German blood in there, but HM is not German. She is an English monarch. She was born and bred in England. As were most of her family. How far back shall we go? There's gotta be French in there through 1066 but she's not French. If I trace my lineage back far enough, there could be Russian, but I am not Russian in any way shape or form, my very very distant relatives were, but I'm not. You may call her 'Queen of Scots', and that's charming, nothing wrong in that if that's how you chose to refer to her, in a way, she is your queen, as she is the queen of Wales, NI, the Common Wealth. The only thing genetics would give you generally is physical attributes etc. Where you are born and raised is what makes you the person you are. The bottom line is that it does not really matter.

Scots my dude.

No-one in Scotland has ever referred to her as that.

@@paulhatton9564 Her Mum's Scottish, and from an old Scottish family. Queen also is a descendant of many Irish Kings, and Chieftains, including the famous Brian Boru(defeater of the Vikings).

@@paulhatton9564 exactly 👏 as scottish as jellied eels. People cling to the "decended" from but as you said you could trace your own lineage back to whatever country. She was English and used Scotland as her holiday home.

Wow, thank you!

Nothing to brag about. Nothing YOU accomplished.

You're welcome

Thanks

Thanks George

Glad you enjoyed it!

Yes, and also David I

Macalpine's trace their ancestry back to the Ui Neil dynasty of Ireland.

His mother was a pictish princess.

Glad you enjoyed it

Damn right!

Have fun!

@@ScotlandHistoryTours I'm sure we will. The only "problem" is I already want to plan a second trip for all the stuff I already know I won't get to.

Yes, sorry I said that so support your comment.

Glad it was helpful!

Glad you enjoyed it!

If you're a Yank, then past your immediate and most closely related Yankee ancestors, your far distant British ancestors were actually far more likely the border reivers than anything else, certainly not royals or more upper class or educated elites like nobles or aristocrats (these people didn't move abroad to better their prospects as they already had them where they came from), it was the reivers who largely went to the Americas after they were deported as stateless criminals to parts of Ireland, the reivers were the least royal people in Britain, many didn't even consider themselves Scottish or even English, they lived by their own ways and identified by clan names more than nationalities (a bit like the modern ethnic Yank Doodle USian natives of today), they lived along the border adjacent to 'the Debatable lands' which was rife in crime and squalor, with arson, murder and robbery, inbetween the two Kingdoms of Scotland and England and would attack either as targets depending on whether it benefitted them or not. The Scottish arch Bishop of Glasgow - Gavin Dunbar, wrote a 1,000 word curse on them in 1525, which you can read here > inews.co.uk/light-relief/offbeat/1000-word-curse-caused-havoc-five-centuries-made-75709 After James VI of Scots took the English throne in 1603 and became James I of England (with the Principality of Wales also) as well, making him a double monarch of both kingdoms (and Ireland by extension, as Ireland was a Papal possession of the Kingdom of England since the Laudabiliter), this gave the Scottish monarch power on both sides of the border to cast them out, the ones who were not executed for more serious crimes were deported as stateless criminals to parts of Ireland, then a couple of generations later, their distant descendants became the outlaw cowboys and cattle rustlers of the old West. It's hilariously ironic how their heavily mixed ethnic Yank Doodle descendants (many of whose ancestors were actually not even British, but original 1492 proto-Yankees before the first British came to set up 13 small eastern shoreline coastal colonies in 1607, 115 years later) now claim in desperation to be related to foreign British royalty when they are actually among the least royal people in the world, and their nation even fought against the British nations (the Kingdoms of Scotland & England with the Principality of Wales) and against the notion and concept of royalty leading up to the Treaty of Ghent in 1815.

@@PredatorUpHill First of all, if you think you are going to offend Americans by telling them they descended from a bunch of Rebels. Boy are you wrong! We are proud of the fact that we are a bunch of rebels. Although, my English and Scottish Grandfathers came here much later than you speak, I am proud of them to have enough balls to pack up and move to a new country. My point is that not everyone who is American with either English, Scottish, or Irish is related to the people for whom you speak. I know exactly when and what boat my Great Grandfather came here on and what year he left and what year he landed here. He paid his own way to America. So, your logic is terribly wrong. That said, I don't have enough English or Scottish in me to claim being anything other than having ancestors from that area. I personally don't care if they are from royalty or not. In fact, I would prefer it to be from rebels who caused your ancestors a lot of worry! My only interest in your Royals is in the novelty that you have Royals currently. My family is 85-90% German and has only been in this country for a couple of generations. Almost every time I walk into a room I am asked if I am German? Nobody has ever asked me if I am English or Scottish. When my father visited Germany in the fifties the actual Germans continually asked him why he was pretending to not speak German. So, if you ask me my ancestry, I will tell you I am German. Again, my point is that people have flooded through the US immigration for centuries from the first days they landed on our shores and thought we were India till still today. They have come continually and constantly trying to escape the Old World. Your people seem to have just as much fascination with our country not having a Monarch as we are curious about the fact that you still have one?

@@PredatorUpHill That sounds like the right history, and Thomas Sowell, the black economic historian, blames that Reiver culture for corrupting African-Americans because it was the main culture in the Old South (the original 'Red Neck' Culture). But the Campbells are despised, I believe, among the Highlanders, for treachery, cunning, and opportunism:)

@@PredatorUpHill I'm so confused, is there a missing comment this was in response to?

@@RiverWoods111 Germans are, to my surprise, the biggest European ethnic group there. I thought it was people of the British Isles. Germans were regarded as stolid, a tough, obedient, peasant workforce during the 19th century by Yankees

He is already connected to the Stuarts via his father, but through his mother he’s also connected to the Jacobite line albeit by an illegitimate child of James VII & I

Yes Spencer are of iligitamate Stewart line ie Norman/Scot. All by design...

And I thought the families in the soaps were hard to keep track of!

William could also choose to be known as King Arthur, since that's one of his given names! Uniting all those old lines and reigning as a new King Arthur would be kind of cool 😄

@@kathilisi3019 You King Arthur didn’t actually exist though, right?

Thanks

Indeed

Thank you for this comment; I had never heard of William of Winchester, and he lived an interesting life. (To be fair, it seems Matilda was about 14 generations back, and there were a whole lot of Germans and the occasional Dane in the interval between William and George I, so that English bit must have been pretty lonely.) But we are all very much of a mix, for sure.

@@edithengel2284 its also believed that the vast majority of brits are of Germanic decent. Be it algle, saxons, danes , vikings

The Queen Mother came from a long line of Home Counties and London families. One of her grannies was born in Leicestershire, that’s as far north as it gets for many generations. If your parents, grandparents and great-grandparents were all Home Counties people, and you were born when the family was at a caravan they owned in NI, but grew up and lived in London & the Home Counties, would you go on and on about “being Northern Irish”?

The Tudor line was the most British royal line the British had. It had Welsh, Scottish and English royal lineages. Not like any of this matters because all royalty in Britain stemmed from invaders be it the Romans, Celts, Angles, Saxons, Danes, Norwegians (Vikings) or those warbands that heard of Britain's wealth in the late Bronze age. The common folk in the UK have DNA stemming back thousands of years, a length of time which out spans us playing Kings and Queens.

@@UkSapyy You dont understand. It has nothing to do with lnieages with commoners. Its about royal lines and both the ones to England and Scotland were cut 100s of years ago. The question is the monarch Scottish is absurd really. The Windsors are more German and Greek than anything else.

I'm sure the queens mother was 100% Scottish wasnt she?

@@jordanleigh8119 There is no one 100% Scottish.

Glad you enjoyed it!

I think he'd be a nightmare for the poor guides for whom it's just a job and who just have it all memorised, and a delight for those guides who love and study history and are bored with the same old memorised speech. :D During my years of going on tours of Czech chateaus (that's a Thing over here rather than museum tours, okay), I've encountered both types of tour guides.

Most Scots would disagree. And by that I mean Scottish people , not English settlers.

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Maybe? However definitely through her Fathers side, as her Great-Great-Grandfather married a Seymour and she was decended from an illegitimate son of Charles II, a Stuart.

Looks like you have a cleft chin. That is a genetic marker of some OLD ancestry.

He is quite amazing

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@@geoffdundee Any idea where to get help with Scots-Irish lines? I have my branch of Kerrs from 1820's to me and know the general history of the family, as well as the general history of the Ulster Plantation, but I don't know how to connect my branch that emigrated from Ulster to the US in 1848 with the Scottish Borders.

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It's Stirling Castle.. not Fkn Sterling Castle as the stupid fkn RU-vid subtitles show.. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ well done to you guys though.. Great work..

I'm betting that's not their only mistake

Kinda thought you were talking pish but was interested enough to google it , discovered your talking about some new steve coogan film and there he wis...the man himself......lol

@@RFL1976 took me days to remember where I’d seen him. 🤣

Aye that's the boy

It was where she often went on family holidays and also where she chose to spend her last days. I'd agree that she loved Scotland.

She loved Scotland and so do most of the rest of them. You can see in the photographs how happy they are to be there.

If I could live in Balmoral I would “love Scotland” too. She loved her large country estate and the mountain that she owned, and the village that made its living off the connection. But she didn’t spend any more time in Edinburgh than she had to, and when did she turn up in Dundee or Glasgow more than once a decade? Or even the West Highlands or the islands, for that matter.

Balmoral was her favourite place to be, not that I blame her. The castle is breathtaking just as the gardens surrounding it are

@@eh1702 she visited Scotland several times a year actually, it's clear you have the brain power of a dish cloth

Our pleasure!

Diana’s kids were possibly replaced after her death.

In fact, Lord Cumberland stopped off for the night at Glamis Castle on his way to Inverness (& Culloden). After he left the bed and bedding he slept in was taken out of doors and burned.

England can keep Harry , Scotland doesn’t like traitors.

QE 1st of Scotland.

"The bloodlines of Scotland France wales England Ireland" What bloodlines of Ireland? Ireland was a colony of England it never had its own blood line rulers. All the kings and queens of Ireland were English, there legitimacy wasn't even recognized by the wilde Irish, who were autonomous in their own lands, much to the frustration of the English hence surrender and regrant policies of King Henry VIII ... You have tudor welsh, Scottish and English and french, but no Irish bloodlines. The closest thing Ireland had to an Irish king was the Earl of Desmond.

@@Maestro4759 Guess you've never heard of the high kings of Ireland

Welcome aboard!

Yay! Thank you!

They’re only German if you don’t count female lines. 😉

Not to be rude but if you could trace your family back over a thousand years I'm pretty sure you would be shocked by just what nationality you hail from. Having heritage belonging to another country means shit

Lol I seen similar in a pub in scone and laughed out aloud, how Norman/ German the blood line is. Very deceiving all by design.

@@ffotograffydd Not sure about that one...it was a female Stuart that married into the Hannoverian Dynasty after all!

@@paulmckearney4945 So marrying a German wipes out your DNA? 😂

Very true.I'm a Scottish Gillis and a Welsh connection with my Griffiths forebears.

Aye

Wonderful

Sorry but the fact that James VI and VII are always either referred to as James VI and VII of Scotland, James I and II of England or just James I and II by English people doesn’t back up the claims of standardisation to the highest number. It proves that it is only when the highest number is English, that all must abide by it.

@@lynnejamieson2063 James I and VI was long dead by the time Churchill made his suggestion AND his reign was a personal union of the crowns NOT a union of the kingdoms he rules, although he wanted it to be so, or so I have read, to the opposition of both countries' nobility. As I pointed out Churchill only applied it after the Acts of Union of 1707. So far we haven't had the name of a solely Scottish monarch, such ax Robert or Alexander, reach the throne.

When the video is scripted I put in the subtitles, but this was off the cuff, so no advance script

It was pretty common in royal and aristocratic families in general; the Habsburgs probably take the cake, though, because there were two branches of the family ruling two different countries and there was A LOT of dynastic intermarriage between the two. I seem to recall at one point there was a marriage between an uncle and a niece who at the same time were cousins, or some such extreme genetic entanglement...

Aside from William and Mary, who were first cousins, there does tend to be a bit of distance kept in the British Royal Family.

@@ffotograffydd Victoria and Albert were _also_ first cousins...

@@beth12svist My apologies, you are correct.

Nope you're spot on.

@@Frauditor420 Do you really think the winning pro-Hanoverian side care one jot what was proclaimed by the supporters of the losing pro-Stuart/Jacobite side? Especially when made by a bunch of uppity Jocks? Hell no. They didn't care when they imposed Queen Elizabeth II on Scotland, even though there had been no prior Queen of Scots with that name, and I don't think the obsequious pro-monarchy Scottish establishment will bat an eyelid at Charles Windsor proclaiming himself as Charles III.

As I recall, even the heirs of Bonny Prince Charlie renounced that claim (because of Napoleonic-period politics). So we really should forget about that bunch.

@@PhilMasters Current Head of the Jacobites is German! BPC himself was Italian!

You can click the three little dots bottom right then choose 'save to watch later'

Northern Ireland don't have a national rugby team, there is only a combined Irish national rugby team.

Sir I am fully aware of the fact that the Island of Ireland plays rugby as one nation, and thus in the six nations championship is considered a home nation. And that for a number of reasons it wouldn’t be politically wise for a member of the royal family to champion Ireland, in the way that various members do for the other nations.

@Mark P No I'm not forgetting that. I'm well aware of that

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Nonetheless Scots/Scotland were considered the enemy.

Correct. It was a struggle between two branches of Stuarts as the Hanoverians were also Stuarts. My understanding is 75% of the Duke of Cumberland's soldiers were Scots

@@lauratictoc No. They were not considered the enemy.

@@graemegardner8962 about 1 tenth of Cumberland army Scots

@@graemegardner8962 read Christopher Duffy book. Very comprehensive. Even weather reports from the day.

I did hear that sometime in the dim and distant past children to the maiden name of their mother because everyone knew who the parent was but not the father if that makes sense.

@@pjmoseley243 Yes it does I know how they chose Lee, Their father used the Town as his sir name like Robin of Locksley, Which the town was in Normandy so they are in England they have to pick a new name so they took their mothers middle name of Lee, And we were off and running. Most famous of the Lee's you would know is the Actor Sir Christopher Lee who of course was Dracua , Count Dooku and Saruman

@@xjp1998and the Man with the Golden Gun!

​@@pjmoseley243that's true. Your father might be at your birth, or maybe not, or "who's the daddy??". But it was a certainty your mum would be at your birth, lol, it was very difficult for her not to be there 😂. Some cultures focus on the maternal line instead of paternal for that reason. Especially with rape being more common in those days, and obviously no concept of DNA testing, paternity was harder to establish, but maternity was easy

@@jumbodoug JUmbo what culture followed the maternal line because thats whats really important I think for all the reasons you point out.