HRH Prince Philip - Passed Away

[kaz7]

Sad day for the queen , her sitting alone will be very sad , as it has been for everyone

Seventy three years , wow

 

[Len Rum]

Hope we get to see the Duke's three German relations at the funeral - grandchildren of two of his sisters who married into the German aristocracy and a cousin who like the Duke is descended from Queen Victoria.
I never realised how many German cousins related to our royal family there are on Phillip's side.
You only ever get to hear of those on the Queen's side.

 

[Gray]

Hope we get to see the Duke's three German relations at the funeral - grandchildren of two of his sisters who married into the German aristocracy and a cousin who like the Duke is descended from Queen Victoria.
I never realised how many German cousins related to our royal family there are on Phillip's side.
You only ever get to hear of those on the Queen's side.

When Queen Anne died childless (loads of chidren who didn’t live long), the powers that been went off to Germany to find a replacement. They recruited George I who landed by boat at Greenwich in 1714 and he didn’t speak a word of English. So not at all suprised we have a strong connection to our old enemy.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Usually watch the bbc on these occasions, but see ITV have played their trump cards, Mary Nightingale and Julie Etchingham.

 

[ballinio]

When Queen Anne died childless (loads of chidren who didn’t live long), the powers that been went off to Germany to find a replacement. They recruited George I who landed by boat at Greenwich in 1714 and he didn’t speak a word of English. So not at all suprised we have a strong connection to our old enemy.

Aren’t they all German

 

[Len Rum]

When Queen Anne died childless (loads of chidren who didn’t live long), the powers that been went off to Germany to find a replacement. They recruited George I who landed by boat at Greenwich in 1714 and he didn’t speak a word of English. So not at all suprised we have a strong connection to our old enemy.

I was referring to the more immediate German link to the royal family through Phillip's ancestry.
But of course there are many others - Prince Albert,Mary of Teck and the Hanoverian link that you mention going all the way back to George 1.

 

[Gray]

Aren’t they all German

Yes by descent.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Hope we get to see the Duke's three German relations at the funeral - grandchildren of two of his sisters who married into the German aristocracy and a cousin who like the Duke is descended from Queen Victoria.
I never realised how many German cousins related to our royal family there are on Phillip's side.
You only ever get to hear of those on the Queen's side.

Kept out of the way when they got married as German links were still a sensitive issue that soon after ww2

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Aren’t they all German

auf wiedersehen pet.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

Usually watch the bbc on these occasions, but see ITV have played their trump cards, Mary Nightingale and Julie Etchingham.

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