The troubled lives of our Hanoverian monarchs
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The House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.... rulers of the English... you are a subject of the Germans.
A small correction in your statement ES... The Brits are not subjects, they are vassals... Peons if you will.
@ Blackie: Doesn't it strike you as odd that your national food is bangers and mash?
Sausages and spuds in regular language... A clever German invention I might add
Correct. I'm not sure about Canadians, but Britons aren't.
It does strike me as odd, because I thought fish and chips or chicken tikka masala was Britain's national dish.
Germans invented sausages and potatoes, did they?
You are correct Captain. Much more appropriate as well and true to life.
Here is the German Prince playing flag football.
Nope, Cap is wrong. The British, of course, invented sausages and potatoes, just like they invented everything else. In fact, it was King Arthur himself. He invented the potato, then took it to America whilst Launcelot was banging his wife's brains out, and said to the Indians "Nurture these plants for a thousand years, and then my descendants will return and kill you all." And sho nuff, that's how it came to be.
You are correct Captain. Much more appropriate as well and true to life.
Here is the German Prince playing flag football.
I see that the dirty British DNA pool has sullied the Germanic genes.
Buddy is clearly the embodiment of the 'red headed step child ' that is beaten like his namesake
Almost right.
It was, of course, an Englishman who introduced the potato to the world outside the Americas. And tobacco, too.
I agree.
You are correct Captain. Much more appropriate as well and true to life.
Here is the German Prince playing flag football.
Harry was born in London to an English father with Scottish and Greek ancestry and an English mother, and yet you call him German?
The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain - Episode 2
Lucy Worsley's inside story of Britain's imported German dynasty, made with extensive access to the Royal Collection, reaches the reign of George II. She shows how he had to adapt to a growing 'middling rank' in society no longer content with being downtrodden subjects. Affairs of state were being openly discussed in coffee houses, while the king and his ministers were mocked in satirical prints and theatres.
George II was an easy target - grumpy, and frequently absent in Hanover. To his British subjects he became The King Who Wasn't There. But his wife, the enlightened Caroline, popularized a medical breakthrough against smallpox. However, it was their son, Frederick Prince of Wales, who really understood this new world - he had the popular touch monarchy would need to survive into the modern era.
Watch here: BBC iPlayer - The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain: Episode 2
Lucy Worsley's inside story of Britain's imported German dynasty, made with extensive access to the Royal Collection, reaches the reign of George II. She shows how he had to adapt to a growing 'middling rank' in society no longer content with being downtrodden subjects. Affairs of state were being openly discussed in coffee houses, while the king and his ministers were mocked in satirical prints and theatres.
George II was an easy target - grumpy, and frequently absent in Hanover. To his British subjects he became The King Who Wasn't There. But his wife, the enlightened Caroline, popularized a medical breakthrough against smallpox. However, it was their son, Frederick Prince of Wales, who really understood this new world - he had the popular touch monarchy would need to survive into the modern era.
Watch here: BBC iPlayer - The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain: Episode 2