European Royal Families - Old Footage
Surely it wasn't Edward, Prince of Wales 6:20 - 6:22, him being called Bertie until he was king and 'took' the name Edward as the king? Wasnt his first name Albert, after his father, just as the Princess Royal was Victoria, named after the mother?
Weren't much of the royalty mentioned 12:15 - 12:22 close relatives, generally first cousins and usually with multiple links, of the british royals who were until then mostly a German family, with Alexandra perhaps the different one for being Danish? Bulgaria and Romania, Greece and Prussia and Russia were certainly all very close relatives of British royals, and most were grandchildren of Queen Victoria or married to them.
British royalty not merely lost the German name 14:45 - 14:53 during WWI, but few relatives too, close relatives they had grown up visiting and marrying and so on; Russian royalty were murdered, and others of Germany couldn't keep the ties close any longer.
The crowds thronging for this 21:30 - 21:44 remind one of the crowds for Diana's wedding and her funeral.
The abdication speech of Edward VIIIth 24:30 perhaps might have been entirely sincere, even though he didn't refuse the position immediately, but only when it was an impasse about his insistence that he would marry Mrs Simpson and have her as his queen, while his government flatly refused to allow this possibility and forced him to make a choice; but it occurs to one that a very similar speech by another political personae about an elected position in another nation seems to have been copied partly from his speech, especially the part about never wanting the position, while that stance of the copy was completely fraudulent in that several hundred MPs had been asked by this political leader to sign individual declarations asking that this person be appointed to the said position, instead of the usual way, each party declaring their choice in one letter.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TqehW28f6OU
Surely it wasn't Edward, Prince of Wales 6:20 - 6:22, him being called Bertie until he was king and 'took' the name Edward as the king? Wasnt his first name Albert, after his father, just as the Princess Royal was Victoria, named after the mother?
Weren't much of the royalty mentioned 12:15 - 12:22 close relatives, generally first cousins and usually with multiple links, of the british royals who were until then mostly a German family, with Alexandra perhaps the different one for being Danish? Bulgaria and Romania, Greece and Prussia and Russia were certainly all very close relatives of British royals, and most were grandchildren of Queen Victoria or married to them.
British royalty not merely lost the German name 14:45 - 14:53 during WWI, but few relatives too, close relatives they had grown up visiting and marrying and so on; Russian royalty were murdered, and others of Germany couldn't keep the ties close any longer.
The crowds thronging for this 21:30 - 21:44 remind one of the crowds for Diana's wedding and her funeral.
The abdication speech of Edward VIIIth 24:30 perhaps might have been entirely sincere, even though he didn't refuse the position immediately, but only when it was an impasse about his insistence that he would marry Mrs Simpson and have her as his queen, while his government flatly refused to allow this possibility and forced him to make a choice; but it occurs to one that a very similar speech by another political personae about an elected position in another nation seems to have been copied partly from his speech, especially the part about never wanting the position, while that stance of the copy was completely fraudulent in that several hundred MPs had been asked by this political leader to sign individual declarations asking that this person be appointed to the said position, instead of the usual way, each party declaring their choice in one letter.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TqehW28f6OU