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minus-squareeinkorn@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-24 days agoI assume you will be delighted to learn that “Windsor” actually is just a cover name for Saxe-Coburg and Gotha because in 1917 having a German house on the British throne didn’t seem right. Edit: Totally forgot that Mountbatten is also just a German housename in disguise.
minus-squareGork@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·4 days agoSo scandalous that ze Germans have infiltrated the Royal Family! 🧐
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoYes but Mountbatten is anglicization of Battenburg, not Glücksburg. All those branches are intertwined, of course.
minus-squarehakunawazo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-23 days ago* Battenberg Berg = mountain Burg = castle
minus-squareeinkorn@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoWe are both right, though I didn’t express it correctly. Prince Phillip adopted the name Mountbatten, which is English for Battenburg, but he is of the House of Glücksburg.
minus-squarelepinkainen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·4 days agoI, too, have watched The Crown 😜
minus-squareeinkorn@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-24 days agoYou have? Cause I haven’t.
minus-squarelepinkainen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoYou should, it’s pretty good. There’s an explicit point and a few scenes about the decision to switch their last name to a non-German one
I assume you will be delighted to learn that “Windsor” actually is just a cover name for Saxe-Coburg and Gotha because in 1917 having a German house on the British throne didn’t seem right.
Edit: Totally forgot that Mountbatten is also just a German housename in disguise.
So scandalous that ze Germans have infiltrated the Royal Family! 🧐
Yes but Mountbatten is anglicization of Battenburg, not Glücksburg. All those branches are intertwined, of course.
* Battenberg
Berg = mountain
Burg = castle
We are both right, though I didn’t express it correctly.
Prince Phillip adopted the name Mountbatten, which is English for Battenburg, but he is of the House of Glücksburg.
I, too, have watched The Crown 😜
You have? Cause I haven’t.
You should, it’s pretty good. There’s an explicit point and a few scenes about the decision to switch their last name to a non-German one