WreathOfLaurels
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Has anyone on this thread read Benedict Andersons Imagened Communities? It's got a lot about the question of how the idea of national identites are formed and how we view the past strongly effects it. Could be relevant to this topic along withNorman Davies The Isles a very strange but good history of the U.K. and Ireland with a lot to say about the RFs heritage and the geneological slight of hand employed to get around the German antecedents of the RF.
A lot of the emphasis on the late QM and Pss Diana's "Britishness" (overlooking their own non British heritage) is part of this along with playing up Philips Mountbatten roots. It's interesting that prince William and Prince George may well be the most "British" read non-continental European kings since Tudor times (ignoring their French ancestry), but Charles might well be the most genuinely European ancestry wise with German, Russian, Danish, Polish, Dutch, French, and Hungarian roots along with the Greek connection from Philip - Vive la Differnce, Sa Majestie!
Besides the RFs German connection predates the hanovers/coburgs/Windsors. There were few German queens prior to to the c18 but a lot of English/Scottish princesses married plenty of German princes - empress maltilda and Elizabeth of Bohemia being the most important
A lot of the emphasis on the late QM and Pss Diana's "Britishness" (overlooking their own non British heritage) is part of this along with playing up Philips Mountbatten roots. It's interesting that prince William and Prince George may well be the most "British" read non-continental European kings since Tudor times (ignoring their French ancestry), but Charles might well be the most genuinely European ancestry wise with German, Russian, Danish, Polish, Dutch, French, and Hungarian roots along with the Greek connection from Philip - Vive la Differnce, Sa Majestie!
Besides the RFs German connection predates the hanovers/coburgs/Windsors. There were few German queens prior to to the c18 but a lot of English/Scottish princesses married plenty of German princes - empress maltilda and Elizabeth of Bohemia being the most important
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