The Origins of the Windsors Explained 

It might also be interesting to note that, although the younger Charlotte lived a very long life, she too would die childless at the age of 86 in 1927

@@Edmonton-of2ec Tbf she became a widow at the age of 27 when her only husband was executed by the Mexicans who wanted to restore the republic.

@@shehannanayakkara4162 Well yeah but they’d been married for 10 years before he died. Plenty of time to have at least one kid if they were capable of doing so.

Question why do you say Queen of England? Last Queen of England was Elizabeth 1st daughter of Henry viii correct or are you American just not checking details? Also was not George 1st of Great Britain not related to the Scottish monarchy as in the House of Stuart Seems your going in circles trying to say our Royal Family is pure German?

@@Valhalla88888 Actually the last Queen of England was Queen Anne. Not Elizabeth I.

The Swedish (I think?) accent can be annoying since you expect the German names to be pronounced correctly, but no such luck :P

Absolutely, it was very interesting to learn more about them. I was aware of the German pronunciation of "Wettin" (although I didn't know that it was regional), but I thought I'd say it in a way that sounds more natural in English, kind of like Berlinn instead of Berliin. I admit that I'm pretty inconsistent with my pronunciations though, so I'm sorry if that's a bit annoying. 😅

@@nullifye7816 I think the swedish accent sounds rather nice. :)

@@kingsandthings It's not annoying. I understand your choice, since this is a video aimed at an english audience. :) (And I hope my nitpicking is not too annoying in turn 😅)

@@untruelie2640 No worries. Thanks for the context of the pronunciation :)

Maybe just the history of Austria

@@TheWazzoGames They once ruled almost the entirety of Western Europe. So... yeah. You can say that the History of Habsburgs are a significant part of European history.

@@TheWazzoGames But again, significant marriages lead to significant events, allies, and people from happening. And it lead to another significant marriages, and so on.

@@jefferyhanderson7849 It also lead to Charles II of Spain

They are inbred. So they are the same.

Richtig

Exactly, thus the current ruling house of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg; Glücksburg for short - or one might as well say House of Oldenburg and be done with it. ^^

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Now we add the Raglands. From.georgia USA......

It's worthy to note his father considered himself a part of the House of Mountbatten (branch of the House of Hesse)

Not a great video, it's pronounced Go-ta, not "Gotha".

@@ellalee6807 so one mispronounciation ruins the video for you?

@@micahistory It's not mispronounciation, sweetie - it's a glaring mistake and shows that they don't know what they are talking with. I know what I am speaking of - not only a researcher, but member of the family in question.

@@ellalee6807 well firstly i highly doubt you are a royal but even if you are, Gotha is not even an English word so give the man a break.

Well, you don't know me , so really, your doubts are irrelevant? Your opinion doesn't change facts, dear. Do you always just round on people like a petulant bully and grant some people credit or none at all, depending on your whims? Well, that's not a very fair, decent, and intelligent way to handle people and life now, is it? Best if one wants to be an expert on Germany history, to do some actual research and get basic things right? Give decent people a break, honey, and your pompous head a shake.

During the 20th century the Netherlands had 3 female monarchs in succession but the name of the Royal House remained the same

Her dynasty still has a claim

You are absolutely correct. Some random dude marries a woman who inherited the thrown, WHY the hell should the dynasty's name change to the gold-digging husband?

@@josephsf2452 You're right, their name should have never changed to Saxe Coburg Gotha, the female monarchs should have been able to pass on their house's name to their children. Changing the dynasty to their husband's names was perfectly absurd, when these women were the actual monarchs of their countries. That was a mistake, brought about by the misogyny of the times. I feel like even Elizabeth was only allowed to change it, because otherwise the house would have returned to having a German name, Mountbatten.

Cringe

Ach ja. Buy die Griechen. Auch viel deutsch. Oooh. The terrible. Gerrmans

@@dagmarvandoren9364 What's terrible about the Germans? The House is technically Greek and Denmark but the House of Windsor is very German. After all, QEII and Prince Philip are both descendants of Victoria and Albert. Victoria and Albert are from prominent German Houses.

Except that, since the marriage of Phillip to Elizabeth, patrilineally they are now descendants of the Danish and formerly Greek royal family. And, had Queen Elizabeth not refused to take on her husband's name as Queen Victoria did, the new dynasty of Mountbatten would have been established. A quick name change can , it seems, change the whole idea of "dynasty" 😂

Naturlich....als deutsche. Schon. Nicht?

Diana was fully English if I'm not wrong, so prince William and little George are more English then rest of them and as someone said they did not become king's ang queen's because they are German but because they are connected with William the Conqueror.

No one talks about who how or why they first became British. There seems to be missing information. At what point did there become a void or vacancy that was from the Tudor line?

@@glory4645 quite right, and I loved the way Princess Diana used to refer to her in-laws as "those Germans" 😂. Even William the Conquerer wasn't English. As his moniker suggests, he came from Normandy, France, and conquered the English kings. Innit?

On the contrary, it's missing a lot.

Well, but only because George I was the eldest son of Sophia of Hanover, the eldest daughter of James' VI eldest daughter Elizabeth Stuart and Elector Palatinate (in exile) Frederick V AKA The Winter King of Bohemia. And was not Catholic. Fun fact: Sophia's sister, Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate, was a skilled painter and engraver. And became a nun (later abbess) in France after her conversion to Catholicism. Sophia and Louise were also aunts of Liselotte of the Palatinate, who married Louis XIV brother, Philippe Duke of Orleans. After Liselottes brother, the Elector Palatine Charles II, died without issue and the Electorate fell to the Catholic (since 1615) Neuburg line of the Palatine Wittelsbachs, Louis XIV used that as pretext for the Nine Years War.

The Ghibelline (Waibligen) side was also Catholic of course, but they simply opposed the Pope in the struggles between Pope and Emperor. This was about politics, not religion.

Charles doesn’t have a last name neither does will or any of his kids.

When in actuality their real name is Mountbatten - Saxe Coburg Gotha. I was today year's old when I found out about all of this as a late teen. It's so tricky that they got away with changing their name, so as to make the British public forget that they are mostly German. Only princess Diana's family, the Spencers, have more claim to the British throne, than this family will ever have. But people enjoy the fakery and the puppetry show, so let them have their bread and games.

Oh, I guess that’s right! I tend to forget that Prince Philip’s house was Glucksburg, and not Mountbatten.

It’s also interesting to note this not the first attempt of the House of Oldenburg (of which the Glücksburgs are just one branch) to place itself on the British throne that was actually a success. They would’ve done so if any of Queen Anne’s children survived since her husband was a Danish prince, but since none of them did, the Oldenburgs had to wait another 300 years for their time

@@davidluciemable3778 wasn’t Mountbatten there uncles name??

@@Edmonton-of2ec yes I noted that in one of the royal family tree videos on youtube

They are 1st cousins...both grandsons of Queen Victoria...

@@kenjacoby7404 Nicholas II isn’t a direct descendent of Queen Victoria. He was her grandson-in-law. George V of the UK is related to him because their mothers were sisters.

@@billcipherproductions1789 ... oh, ok. Thanks for correcting me. I misunderstood the family relationship.

He also has a mix of British ancestry thanks to his maternal grandmother, the late Queen Mother. She was a member of the Scottish aristocracy and had basically no genetically significant ancestry from outside the British Isles. Might not be of significance for Charles being on the throne, but it does make him more British

Well William the Conquerer wasn't very english as he the Duke of Normandy (The Land of the Northmen i.e: Vikings) and was descend from the Norwegian viking chief Rollo 1st Duke of Normandy

@user-hg5ng3eb9n actually the Queen Mother had some Dutch ancestry on her mother's side and if you traced the Lyon family tree back far enough you would find that they originated in France

The Queen Mother also had some family connection to the Scottish Royal Family!

@susanletissier9729 yes she was descended from Robert the Bruce and also from the Tudors

Yes, Leopold I of Belgium, the first monarch of independent Belgium, was the uncle of Prince Albert.

@@BlameThande so Belgium’s Royal family can adopt the Windsor surname as well?

@@nomanor7987 i dont think that’s possible because Windsor name was created by the British Line of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. They created a cadet branch not merely renaming it.

@@BlameThande Not only that, Princess Victoria, Duchess of Kent is also a Saxe-Coburg and a sister of Leopold, making Albert and Victoria 1st cousin.

@nomanor7987 no the Belgian Royal family changed its name to House of Belguim

Leopold of the Belgians, but yes, that's another story.

Only if she comes and gets it

House of Windsor was started build Windsor Castle by King of William 1 of Normandy (Viking), NOT their descendant from Hanover or Saxe-Coburg-Gotha or Stuart / Stewart.

@@seancowie1253 My posting was not about who originally ordered a castle to be built at Windsor. The crowns of the two kingdoms on the island of Britain were first united by the Stewarts. Charles III is indeed related to William the Conqueror, but the current lineage comes to us via the Stewarts.

@@expatexpat6531 That why Queen Elizabeth II, She called her House of Windsor for her royal family but NOT, Charles III is not related William the Conqueror because different relatives eg: From Normandy King Richard I to Plantagenet and Tudors stop and start from Scotland King James I married to Anne of Denmark line to Charles III.( Charles III's lines from Scotland and Denmark and Germany and Hanover and Saxe-Coborg-Gotha = North Saxon).

Add to King William III (1650 - 1702) House of Orange and married 1st cousin, Queen Mary II, The Last King of England, and no heir child so means another family tree to find for need new King of England.

You obviously don't understand - dozens of Catholic heirs were bypassed so the Crown could go to the top Protestant. You probably don't even know the stories of ANY of the ancestors so why are you being so ignorant and flippant?

And Mountbatten comes from Battenberg

Constitutional monarchies don't rule and European royalties have come from everywhere in Europe, married to each other for centuries, etc etc. Queen Victoria, who was British born and raised married off her children to other European monarchies, many of which actually became the rightful heads of the states of those nations, but that would not mean Britain ruled them.

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The Spencers are descended from the Stuarts by at least 2 illigetimate lines this not make them the legal heirs of the House of Stuart. The current senior Stuart or Jacobite heir is Duke Franz of Bavaria. Crown Prince Pavlov is only head of the Greek branch of the House of Glucksburg the actual head of the House and also of the extended House of Oldenburg is Prince Christoph of Schleswig-Holstein Sonderburg Glucksburg

The Dutch monarchy is not part of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Tsar means King in this instance. The monarch was styled as His Majesty, not His Imperial Majesty. So different title, but same rank.

Wasn't an empire in South Eastern Europe to have Tsar.

Tudor Dynasty from Wales plus Plantagenet (Viking, Anglo Saxon, Norman Kings until stop time of Queen Elizabeth 1 ), Windor Castle was build by King of William 1 of Normandy.

You know that your own family was created the same way, don't you? Only noble families bother to keep track of the relationships. But all families graft (to use your term) onto each other.

No.

@@waynemarvin5661 Yea.

Yes

They are both very distantly related to the Royal family. And it's Catherine the Princess of Wales not Kate Middleton. In fact she has never used the name Kate

@@pedanticradiator1491 Actually it's HRH The Princess of Wales or Catherine, Princess of Wales. Not Catherine, THE Princess of Wales.

@richierich7229 yes but it's definitely not Kate Middleton

More or less. Their role is symbolic, they have less direct power than a traffic warden.

@@mikesaunders4775 i didn't even mean in a authoritative sense, more about the ass pull that historical precedent of naming a dynasty after the male line is now void because "we didn't want to change our faux-english named one for another foreign one".

@@mikesaunders4775 Yeah but if I saw the King of England tell me to stop on the street I wouldn't want to disobey. I'd say...semi soft power the royalty has.

@@scottanos9981 king of England get educated last king of England was Henry 8th he died 500 years ago!

@@Valhalla88888 Whatever I'm not British I don't know the exact titles lol

They’re descended from the Welf and Guelph

No she was German

Yes, yes he did. 😢

The House of Wessex were Anglo-Saxons ie: English

The Stuarts origins were French

The royal houses are all connected to each other. If we go by matrilineal descent nearly all royal houses are interlinked and can be traced back to Charlemagne. Traditionally patrilineal descent determined inheritance and claims to the royal throne. It also determined the naming of the royal houses.

To a history buff like me and actual relation, it's very telling you consider them to be a "side show" - if you want a side show, think how William Spencer and his never pregnant wife Kate Middleton are faking the Succession with 3 completely bogus heirs. Not the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, or rather the ancestors, making a sham out of the Crown.

What a ridiculous statement. Not worth further comment

Millions of ordinary people are now researching their Family Trees c My husband's Tree goes back to John Nixon b. 1570 in St. Mary's Parish , Carlisle. JHe was a paid singer ( a Lay Vicar) in Carlisle cathedral THis continued for 4 more generations. His G.G.G. Grandson moved to West Cumberland He was Church Warden at ST.Mungos Church in Dearham until his death in 1780. The family became Mining Engineers and Coal mine managers for the Christians, The Earls of Lonsdale and the Senhouse family who founded the little town of Maryport about 1760. My father-in-law was a n Engineer in the Merchant Navy but his uncle became a teacher and moved to Liverpool . His 2 sons were very well known Robert Nixon b. 1893 became a Doctor in Tanganika , and his younger brother Graeme ,b. 1895 , became a teacher and taught the Beatles The Liverpool Echo recently published an Article about the Maths Master ( Graeme Nixon) , at Quarry Bank School in Liverpool. frequently having to put John Lennon in detention . When Paul Mccartney was 11 he played 5 instruments in the Christmas Concert in the 1950s . Robert Nixon b. 1893 settled in Southern Rhodesia, and his son , also Robert was an MP in Rhodesia , and was in on the negotiations which led to the setting up of Zimbabwe, Two of my husbands G. Grandfathers set up the Cumberland Miners' Federation , and we have found out a lot about their work in the Durham Miners Museum in Spennymoor County Durham. The family are still very musical , and can still sing. My grandson hopes to join the National Youth Orchestra next year At the moment he is in the woodwind section of the training orchestra.

@@sheilanixon913 I don't know how your reply on heritage reached me but it was very interesting anyway. I've traced my ancestors to Scotland,Belgium,France and the Mediterranean although I'm Australian by birth. I even have a standard device tattooed covering my whole back as a result of the research.

​@@mickzammit6794gday from Melb

Actually no they are of the House of Schleswig-Holstein Sonderburg Glucksburg. Battenberg was Prince Philip mother's family

House of glucksberg

Wrong - the Spencers are a lot of former sheep farmers and do not have more rights than true royalty. The Spencers are a lot of traitors, drunks, wife-beaters and idiots who think more highly of themselves than their limited intellects and accomplishments can stand up for. 300 years of willfull traitors who turned on their benefactors when it suited themselves - NO royal or true regal blood in that entire lot of fair-weather users.