Is that what I did?

Further, you were asserting that the Royal family is not indigenous, that they're of German decent so you'll excuse me if I'm a little confused by where you're going with "Indians never ruled shit" ...

Hapsburgs became extinct (18th century) because of inbreeding, so these guys and girls can't be Hapsburgs. And whatever they are, they are now incorporated to be British.



EDITOOO: I don't know where did you get the Hapsburgs.

"With Elizabeth's accession, it seemed probable that the royal house would bear her husband's name, becoming the House of Mountbatten, in line with the custom of a wife taking her husband's surname on marriage. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Elizabeth's grandmother, Queen Mary, favoured the retention of the House of Windsor, and so on 9 April 1952 Elizabeth issued a declaration that Windsor would continue to be the name of the royal house. The Duke complained, "I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his own children."[57] In 1960, after the death of Queen Mary in 1953 and the resignation of Churchill in 1955, the surname Mountbatten-Windsor was adopted for Philip and Elizabeth's male-line descendants who do not carry royal titles."

"The House of Windsor is the royal house of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. It was founded by King George V by royal proclamation on 17 July 1917, when he changed the name of the British Royal Family from the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (a branch of the House of Wettin) to the English Windsor, due to the anti-German sentiment in the British Empire during World War I.[1] The most prominent member of the House of Windsor is its head, Queen Elizabeth II, who is the reigning monarch of 16 Commonwealth realms."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II

What does it cost when Obama/Chinese visit?

When I was living in Costa Rica one year Obama visited, so did the president of China. When Obama came, it was security up the ass, a bunch of closed roads and all kinds of inconvenient bullshit. When the president of China came, it was just another day in San Jose.

That makes two of us - I don't understand why you brought up Native Americans (Indians) in the first place. America is a country of immigrants. England was conquered many times and morphed into what it is today. But the whole POINT of Royalty is succession whereas presidents are elected and not related. :)

Blah blah - whatever, the last paragraph you posted shows I got the overall POINT right. Don't be so pedantic, a very British trait btw. Very nit-picky people the Brits.

The Windsors be GERMANS baby GERMANS!!!

(I hope everyone knows I am just fucking around here. I really love Brits - but not the Royals. Why? Because they be GERMANS baby!)


I just like the sound of that. :)

It's a very Royal thing to do, nothing normal about it. how many of us could wake up one morning and decide to fly a helicopter? How many of us have a helicopter to fly? How much red tape would we have to get through to fly one?

It's not the same as a normal job, it's a fantasy job like being an astronaut or a basketball player.

Doesn't he have to to x amount of training in each different sector? I remember years ago I read that he was doing advanced training in 5-6 different parts of national service because he will be running the country one day. His brother is an Apache helicopter pilot who also served in active combat, I'm by no means a Royal Family fan but I respect these two guys, especially Prince Harry. The kid wanted to go and serve his country and help protect his squadron, takes major balls to go to a war zone knowing you will be a priority 1 target.

I'm apolitical myself but in a country where most people expect to get handouts, it's nice to see these two actually do something when they could just have easily taken to the easier lifestyle.

What this story is missing though is the fact that Prince William is apparently donating his salary to charity.

Royals have traditionally wed cross country, that's how they have made alliances with another countries. It's really not a big deal. These Germans didn't invade England to take the crown, one of them married English queen and the descendents got the father's family name.

You're making my point for me really .... :)

I'll stop bowing when you walk in the room then

Fuck !

No shit.

Hardly comparable, Kim kardashian or economic heavy weight, hmmm which is the better investment?

Didnt you have the chance to vote on becoming a republic?

I thought the Poms were the whinny ones.. you're doing a pretty good job.

Still about 20 billion in trade between the 2 counties, US is only 35.
If the British didn't buy all your fosters, you'd be stuck with it. :)

The British Royal Family are not merely German, they are Jews, Jews I tell you!!!

The horror.

What a cutup that Wilhelm was.

Yah but the Royals are all so BRITISH hoity-toity about it. "We're BRITISH and we're ROYALTY (better than you punters) and we're fucking RICH and we're BRITISH..."

No you aren't, you are GERMAN you bloody "Windsors".

Achtung baby!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V2qYIY-j0O...-_1763120a.jpg

The only Royal worth hitting! :thumbsup

So you turn to insukts for what reason?

Okay, so who you Americans are? Exactly? :) LOL.

I have relatives in US and Canada, and their parents or grandparents and so on weren't Americans when they moved in. But maybe they are now sooo... Americans.. soo Americans. Hallelujah, God bles America. :)

And damn those fucking fake British Windsors.

No insults there at all.
The country has the choice to have them or not. The British dont get that option. :)

royals rock

really? :error

so you guys have now decided that he is American after all? birth certificate or not?

Glad you are finally seeing things my way. :D


Yup. You can start in 1066 with William the Bloody Conquerer if you want tho some would say Rome long before then. Then there's the French (the Royal language of the Court was not English but bloody FRENCH for a couple hundred years). Then there are those pesky Vikings...

Being a country of immigrants there's bound to be a bureaucratic glitch here or there.
:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

So I continued reading about the British royal family - it's incredible how many lunatics attempted to assassinate ol' Queen Victoria.

okay, so after 1066, how many times was England successfully invaded?

Once is enough bro. LOL

"Invaded" is one thing, 'conquered' is another. You can be conquered without firing a shot. How did the FRENCH impose THEIR language on the ENGLISH court for 200+ years?

Then we have all the "in-fighting" like the War of the Roses, the Scottish rebellion (Braveheart), the irish rebellions, on and on (and let's not even bring up those capitulating WELSH fuckers).

Just saying that "England" is an amalgamation of Roman, French, Norsemen (Vikings), Celts, Druids, Germans and God knows who else, all mixing together to form "Britain". That's why you have blond Brits and redheaded Brits and black-haired Brits and so on. it is NOT one clear line of succession to form some British dynasty. All of which is fine IF today's current Britons didn't get all mushy-faced over "royalty" that isn't even from their own bloody country.

Just sayin'. LOL

So your original point was wrong? England has not been conquered many times.


LOL, you cannot even distinguish the difference between Britain and England!

And while we are talking about your fail, you do realise that the French, Norse, Celts (not that they ever existed as Celts anyway) and Germans were all branches of the same root tribe?
The Druids were an indigenous religious order - not an invading tribe!
Read up on the real Braveheart and you'll see that it was mainly a scot on scot fight, not what Hollywood tells you is history.
The French imposed their language on the English court? LOL! You have failed on every single point you tried to make!

Your post was very funny indeed. Gave me a right chuckle.

Britain has been conquered some times and for other times part of it, and it has had impact to it's population. Also Britains own rule has made the population more diverse (in Britain), most notably regarding Indians. Although probably not a single time in a scale as Britain is today, not to speak of when it had India and so on.

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.

This search is more interesting.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Ther...-a&channel=rcs

Jews have always been frustrated with blue bloods around the world. Its the economic war we face now. Battle of jewish bankers vs the blue blood old money.

Kate's mum was a cocktail waitress on airplanes. Impressive.

Blue bloods will always win. Not just the English but the collective group. The English indeed are a sorry lot. Pedophiles and tampon sniffing pervs. lol. That is what Charles wrote to his current wife isn't it?

Thank God Charles's sons take after their mum.

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!

Won't being a king count?

"Sweyn I Forkbeard (Old Norse: Sveinn Tjúguskegg; d. 3 February 1014) was king of Denmark and England, as well as parts of Norway. His name appears as Swegen in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.[1] He was the son of King Harald Bluetooth of Denmark. He was the father of Cnut the Great.

In the mid 980s, he revolted against his father and seized the throne. Harald was driven into exile and died shortly afterwards in November 986 or 987.[2] In 1000, with allegiance of the Trondejarl, Eric of Lade, he was ruler over most of Norway. After a long effort at conquest and shortly before his death, he became, in 1013, the first of the Danish Kings of England."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweyn_Forkbeard


There are other vikings too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_monarchs

Please stop using wikipedia to win arguments. My poor dead cat can edit wikipedia.

Use this.
http://www.burkespeerage.com/home.php

My family, and I mean my DIRECT family line is in it. Is yours? :1orglaugh - We are Norse-Norman-Irish so we don't really "count" though.

Rogue is right. The royal houses are all connected. It was done purposefully for economical reasons and with the hope to make alliances between neighboring countries. Not all that successful but not all that of a failure.

OK I will keep going:

William the Conquerer came from.....class? Brittany. Which is where, exactly? Class? FRANCE. (OK, to be fair, he REALLY came from his Viking heritage, who settled Brittany and other parts of coastal France a few hundred years earlier but I will leave the nit-picking to the Brits).

England or Britain? Hmmm....who bloody cares. it's all the same fooking ISLAND yo. LOL

And if the French did not impose their language onto the British Royal court then HOW did they adopt it? Because Brits love all things French so much?

And of course all the Royal Houses are interbred and interconnected. It's what we Americans hate so much about Royalty to begin with (so un-Democratic and snooty, thinking they are better than everyone else and therefore can only inter-breed, thereby producing jugheaded freaks like Prince Charles). This doesn't change the embarrassing FACT that they (the British Royals) had to change their GERMAN surname during WWI. How droll!

Game. Set. Match. Cheers!

Wikipedia has been studied to be very reliable source of information, and I am not now referring to some wikipedia article. And do you deny the information I gave? Did your dead cat edit that page to add a king or two?

About alliances and such, I already said that before, when that one guy talked about Germans ruling Britain. I don't know how that makes the Rogue right regarding that "conquest" stuff.

Heil Britannia!!

Nein, mein führer ist Von Klonkendorf. Heil Von Klonkendorf, langlebigkeit für dich.