Excellent post, mrbfl. Kinda fleshes out the derp state we've been studying lo these past years.
They were. Their original family name was ‘Saxe-Coburg and Gotha’. They changed it because of the bad optics during WWI. And you’re right about them being related to the Romanovs and Kaiser Wilhelm.
There are exceptions I’m sure, but royalty has tended to look at the people they reign over as subjects, not fellow countrymen. They feel greater kinship with other aristocrats. The elitism of the globalists probably has its roots in those old alliances. The ruling class of Europe never really gave up power. They just moved into the background where they could yield it more indirectly and with less scrutiny. And they never really had absolute power to begin with. Like all heads of state, they relied on aids, advisors, spies, Generals, financiers, etc. to help them maintain power. Over time these fixers became more and more influential to the point where families like the Rothschilds now yield more real power than the old aristocracy.
There was a time in early European history when you had warrior kings who fought with and lead their armies and actually interacted with their men. But over time as Europe prospered and developed, monarchs tended to lose even that connection with their subjects.
Excellent post, mrbfl. Kinda fleshes out the derp state we've been studying lo these past years.
Pithy little essay. Do you have a particular source to flush it out? I know, for example that the English royalty / nobility had vast land holdings from feudal times. I never really looked to see how that morphed into modern social construction.