[kestrelx]

Originally Posted by Less

Sorry, my mistake, hadn't realised who had started this thread got as far as the first word, realised it was another spiteful wind-up job went no further.

The royals are Germans!

They were originally called Saxe-Coburg Gotha but changed the name to Windsor during the 1st World War so as not to upset people when they realised they were of German origins!

Why is the British Royal Family German? - Yahoo! Answers

I never understood why a nation went to war against the Germans when those telling them to go to war were in fact German!