Thanks, I know the history very well. I just don’t know the relevance to Prince Charles’s comments. Besides, the ‘German’ comments about the present day Royal Family are rather tired and often trite. The last British monarch to be born outside of Great Britain was King George II, way back in 1683.
Of course they have had strong German connections, with many of them following the Hanoverian tradition of marrying German princesses. Centuries before, the Norman lineage was dominant; we’ve also had the Welsh Tudors and the Scottish Stuarts, not to mention the brief reign of the Dutch William III.
German is not an insult. If people are eluding to the Nazis, then that is a different proposition. King Edward VIII’s highly suspect political views are well known, but his brother George VI (who also fought against the Germans at Jutland in the First World War) was a steadfast monarch in WWII, and his daughter has followed that example to the present day.
That front page of The Sun was treated with the derision it so rightly deserved.
If your second paragraph was intended as a defense of how Brit royalty became so, I commend your ability to do that with a straight face.
No, German is not an insult and I made/intended no incursions into a Godwin's Law violation. I spent three years there in the US military and thoroughly enjoyed my time among the German people. I developed a few good relationships with Germans and one was a WW2 Fallschirmjaeger.