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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
OK, let's put aside the fact that an AMERICAN knows more about BRITISH history than a Brit.....England was 'conquered' MANY times (I did not say "invaded many times"). Rome, the Celts and Vikings all 'conquered' (invaded) before 1066, and after 1066 the landscape of England changed dramatically in the ways I mentioned before.
(And do your research about how FRENCH was the official language of the BRITISH Roayl court for over 200 years).
And whether this or that ethnicity were part of an original 'root tribe' is meaningless. Vikings and Germans and French and so on, who cares if they shared similar origins? They came to England from different lands, settled there, meshed with the local population, and the entire bloody island morphed into what we have today.
All fine well and good, history is an interesting melting pot. What this thread is about TODAY is how Brits go apeshit over their Royals, who are clearly from Germanic descent and had to change their bloody name to a made-up 'Windsor' so the British population wouldn't revolt against them during WWI while they were fighting their German cousins.
It's all fucking funny to me, that's all. Blah blah.
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How exactly did either the Celts or the Vikings conquer Britain or even England?
I never said that French wasn't the official language of the
English court (which it was) but at no time did the French impose this language which is what you said. And yet again, you
STILL cannot understand the difference between England and Britain!
The Brits do not go "mad" for the royals, I don't understand where you get that from but yes, many of us are protective of them but its nothing like the cult of celebrity you guys have over there. And look up the houses of European royals and you'll see that they are all interconnected so there is little point in harping on about them being German, Queen Elizabeth has family ties with previous houses too.
Keep going, your American understanding of British history is hysterical!