The war is over – the Royal Family is embracing its German roots once again

Charles Saxe-Coburg-Gotha has had a very successful German tour this week. Whoops! I mean Charles Mountbatten-Windsor, aka King Charles III. 🖋️ mounth via ipaperviews

Charles Saxe-Coburg-Gotha has had a very successful German tour this week. Whoops! I mean Charles Mountbatten-Windsor,But he would have been a Saxe-Coburg-Gotha had his great-grandfather George V not changed the royal surname during the First World War, thanks to embarrassment over the German name bequeathed to the Royal Family by Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s husband.

It didn’t help that bombs falling on London were dropped by planes called Gotha G.IV. Or that Queen Victoria’s grandson, theand Gotha, fought on Germany’s side during the First World War. Anglo-German relations only worsened during the Second World War, when many of Charles III’s German relations fought for the Nazis.

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