Posted on 06/06/2026 11:52:17 PM PDT by Texan4Life
All these "incestuous" Aristocracies trying to Rule The World . . . I say, Let them ALL Perish ! ! !
I learned things from this AI video. Many interesting photos and film...
"The "Windsor" were actually The House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha until they decided to change names to conceal their German roots. I don't know how many in the Royal family have been actually British, I do know that Princess Diana was one and perhaps that is the reason why there was no love lost between she and the Windsor, which reportedly she used to call the Huns."
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Nicky deserves almost as much blame as The Kaiser for starting the war, with his mobilization, despite the Kaiser begging him to stop it.
The Royal family has been largely Germanic since the beginning of the 18th century. First the house of Hanover, and then Saxe-Cobourg Gotha. Victoria and Albert were first cousins, so the family tree certainly didn’t branch there. It wasn’t until Elizabeth’s marriage in the late 40’s that the gene pool expanded much. And even then Elizabeth and Philip were third cousins. You put George V and Tsar Nicholas II together and you’d think they were brothers and not cousins.
CC
All these elite people and very few of them are likely saved.
QEII was close to 50/50 German and English
Her mother had mostly English ancestors with a splash of Scottish (her family title was Scottish so people often assume she has more Scottish ancestry than she does)
they would bring in foreign princes when there were disputes between the houses over succession
to prevent a civil war
Regards,
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
Ah, those were the good old days...
All of that interbreeding is why King Charles eyes are to close together
None of them, not Nicholas, George, or Wilhelm, were really calling the shots.
They were useful idiots, used by the people who wanted war.
Nicky heard this and promised "cousin Willie" that he wouldn't mobilize on Germany's border which Wilhelm II was prepared to accept. Russia's generals then told Nicholas II that Russia had no plan for partial mobilization. It was either full mobilization or no mobilization. They piled the pressure on Nicholas II and got him to fully mobilize thus breaking his promise to Wilhelm II and furthermore making it look like his promise had been an act of bad faith all along....that he'd intended to stab Germany in the back all along and wanted to destroy it. Germany immediately went to war in response.
ie Germany was not the aggressor. It was not looking to dominate the continent. It was not seeking territorial expansion. It was acting in self defense. But of course British historians cannot bear to admit that given Britain's huge losses in WWI......
PS. on a side note during the war after the British Royal family changed their name to the House of Windsor, Wilhelm II sarcastically commented that he was going to see a play - "the 3 merry wives of Saxe Coburg Gotha".
Would go a long way to explaining the ears, too.
CC
And Queen Victoria’s progeny continue to be a menace.
People just don’t appreciate the ability to peek through a keyhole in binocular.
The problem with a source like this is that half of it is true and most of the rest is half truth without the context. Old Boomer in me also wants to say, “thank you Captain Obvious,” but everyone has to learn any thing they learn the first time - and schools certainly aren’t teaching history like this anymore.
Thatnks for sharing this, but if you’re actually interested there are much better sources on this.
This is essentially what happened between Hitler and Stalin. Stalin was preparing to march across Europe and Hitler’s rationale choice was to attack first. Of course, this opened a second front and was the beginning of the end for Germany.
It's AI. Have you noticed the narrators in AI almost always have a lisp? Like we all think that AI wold never have a speech impediment, so the lisp is meant to deceive the viewer it's human. And its motions are always very restrained and repetitive. And they speech rhythms aren't ... "human."
Plus the narrative is an arcane and full of twists and turns, making it difficult to fact check.
Take it with a grain of salt, if that.
For example in a sentence like, "Many thought he was born to lead, but his reign went over like a lead balloon," AI would not differentiate between the two instances of, "lead," and pronounce it they same way both times.
I think its’ enough to state that Nicholas II died because his cousin valued the monarchy in Britain more than his life.
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