I found references to our ‘German royals’ in the Ladybird books of my childhood – but the idea is far older than that. Matters aren’t helped by events in 1917, when the Royal Family changed their name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor. There are some more recent German-born members of the Royal Family. But who defines the nationality of a family based on one or two ancestors born more than 150 years ago? But history is written by the winners and so his defeat at Waterloo turns into an event that could have changed the whole course of British history and culture.

Source: Daily Mirror June 05, 2021 15:02 UTC