Originally Posted by
Karol Klačansky
lol 75% british +25% German makes u dutch homie. Davidski is light years ahead of you.
Ok, genius, so Queen Elizabeth is Dutch too ?
The House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (/ˌsæks ˌkoʊbɜːɡ ... ˈɡɒθə, -tə/;[1] German: Haus Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha) is a German dynasty. It takes its name from its oldest domain, the Ernestine duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, but its members later sat on the thrones of the United Kingdom, Belgium, Portugal, Bulgaria, and Mexico.
Founded in 1826 by Ernest Anton, the sixth duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, it is a cadet branch of the Saxon House of Wettin. Agnatic branches currently reign in Belgium—]the descendants of Leopold I, and in the United Kingdom—the descendants of Albert, Prince Consort.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_...burg_and_Gotha
So, yes, the Queen is partly German.
As it is revealed half of Britons have German blood... Time to embrace your inner Jerry!
Achtung! Mein Gott! The revelation that millions of Brits have German blood coursing through our veins comes as a shock, well, as big as the Blitz.
Leading geneticists and archaeologists have shown that we have been cousins of the Teutons since the dawn of time — ever since the fifth and sixth centuries, in fact.
That, as any schoolboy knows, is when tribes invading from northern Europe pillaged and raped their way across England in their hordes, before settling down to the English way of life. And what the geneticists from University College in London have shown, is that they left their mark on us — indelibly.
After analysing tooth enamel and bones in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries and comparing the genetic make-up of Britons and Germans, they have come to the conclusion that about half of us have German forebears.
Inevitably, the Germans themselves are crowing. ‘There is no use denying it,’ said the magazine Der Spiegel. ‘It is now clear the nation which most dislikes the Germans were once Krauts themselves.’
After a century of bitter rivalry between the Tommies and the Jerries, it is tempting for us to feel deflated by this news. It’s almost as if the Germans are getting the last laugh after losing two World Wars and one World Cup.
Never did that cliché from war films — ‘You know Tommy, vee are ze same, you and I’ — seem so appallingly apt.
But is the news really so bad? After all, don’t we have far more in common with the Germans than we realise? Our rivalry may even stem from our similarities rather than our differences.
Perhaps we should see ourselves as brothers in arms rather than brothers at war. Contentious as it may sound, I would appeal to all of you to embrace your inner Jerry.
Before I go any further, I must make a confession. My late grandmother was German, which makes me enough of a Hun to represent Germany at sport, although quite what sport that would be is unclear.
Even Adolf Hitler admired our fighting spirit
For many years, all too aware of my ancestry, I have bridled at the xenophobia whenever 22 men from our two countries are about to kick a ball around for an hour and a half.
At school, I occasionally had to endure the odd Hitler salute and goose-stepping. Although such displays were hardly bullying, they did make me realise that ‘anti-Germanism’ is so deeply engrained in our culture that a nine-year-old boy can tease another simply because he is one quarter German.
Clearly, I wish I had known then what was revealed yesterday, as I would have been able to tell my tormentors that they were just as German as I.
After all, we have so much in common with the Germans, that it seems ludicrous we are always at loggerheads. For a start, our Royal Family is essentially German, and had not its name been changed to Windsor in 1917, our Queen might have been called Elizabeth Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha.
Quintessentially British: Had the Royal Family not changed its name to Windsor in 1917, our Queen might have been called Elizabeth Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha
Prince Philip, despite being nicknamed ‘Phil the Greek’, is actually a scion of the Danish-German House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, which, let’s face it, sounds about as German as it gets.
But the similarities go much further than the Vindsors, sorry, Windsors.
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