[Homer_J_Simpson]

I never realized before that Queen Victoria had grandchildren on the thrones of both Germany (Kaiser Wilhelm) and Great Britain (George V) during WWI. I wonder if she would have played a favorite had she been alive.

[colorado tanker]

When the Stuarts played out with Anne's childless death, a German family was invited to take the throne because the scion was a shirttail relative of James I - and they were Protestants.

In 1917, the name of the House of Saxe-Coburg was changed to the House of Windsor because the name was just so darned, well, German.

Still, had Victoria been around she would have favored the British. Although German in ancestry, she was thoroughly English.

[Tax-chick]

Czar Nicholas II was a cousin of Kaiser Bill and King George on his mother’s side, through the Danes, and a second cousin through the Windsors.

It’s a wonder the whole kit and kaboodle didn’t have three heads apiece.