Notwithstanding, one must understand that the English royal familiy is more German than English, and has been since the 18th century when the German House of Hannover was brought to the throne by Parliament. George I didn't even speak English. The revered Victoria's husband was Prince Albert von Saxe-Coeburg Gotha, as German as they come. Thus, Edward VII was fully half-German. Elizabeth II's husband Prince Phillip is a Mountbatten. The von Saxe-Coeburg Goth family changed its name to Windsor during WWI for political reasons, and the von Battenburg's became Mountbatten for the same reason. There were and are people with very deep ties in the German aristocracy.