Lee  




Ugg and Home will be the names of the first two kids!


 

How does he get all that on his uniform name tape ?

Ooops     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLjBOHskEpw

Captain Darling: "Look, I'm as British as Queen Victoria!"

Blackadder: "So your father's German, you're half-German and you married a German?"

Actually, it was to protest and end the usurpation of the Parliament of England over the British Crown Colonies.  Our only beef with old George is that was not protecting His colonies against a foreign (English) power.

windsor.
this might explain the monumental hangovers i would get drinking canadian windsor whiskey

It's Obama.

But  understandably, they try to keep that quiet.

Who fuckin cares?

Welfare

What's odd (to me) is that the nametapes on William and Harry's uniform say Wales instead of Windsor.

In this case I believe the hyphen is used to designate additional claims to titles.  Not just some feminist whining.  



 

Princes William and Harry of Wales. That's the best explanation there is for it - tradition I guess.





 

Ah, a Brit.  Now for important questions.  Who's tapping Pippa?







 

I am glad I'm not the only one who likes that show!  Captain Edmund Blackadder is the man!

Originally it was Saxe-Gotheburg it was changed to make it sound more Anglized

From Wikipedia:

There is just something childishly funny to me about the name "Harry Wales"

Would he be pissed if you just called him Chuck?

For extra lulz our royal family is techicly almost totally German, for the rest its bread and circuses.

We were extra stupid as we had been a republic since the middle ages and suddenly became a monarchy in 1813

Alex Loudon, former member of the England Cricket Team.

 

It should teach ya all to not fuck with the Germans.

He apparently doesn't have a name tape most of the time (found one picture of him as a helicopter pilot in the 70's that had a name badge but it was unreadable).

 

I know two Sachsen - Coburg - Gothas.

Both with Univerity Degree, and now listen:

both REAL Hunters!

Not snobbish

they know how to dress Game

how to use a shotgun ( yes! )

( no second gun and the like )

they carry their onw game on Lower Game hunts

both have dogs ( one a Labrador )

nice to talk to

They organize driven hunts on their Property

IIRC their Family is around 38th or so in the English Throne List. Not that it would ever matter.

Hermann

 
 

Did you know Prince Harry middle name is Josey ?

This.

The British Royal Family is, oddly enough, German.  They might even trace their lineage back to the Carolingians, but I'm not certain of that.

Windsor...sort of.

It has pretty much come full circle. The Anglo-Saxons (Germans) subjugated the Britons and ruled until 1066 when the fucking Faggot frenchies (but with enough viking blood to not be pussies) called Normans took over. Then through marriages etc. the Germans ended up back in. As posted the last name of Saxe-Coburg is quite inconvenient when at war with the "Huns" who are "bayonetting babies" and raping nuns. So, Windsor is more "english"?
ETA:
but to have a last name would be terribly "common".
For example....At Sandhurst the prince was known as cadet Wales, not windsor.

His first wife muffed it rather badly in her wedding vows too.

According to Nostradamus, it will be "Larry."

I guess with that whole royal We/Us thing you could technically be doing two chicks at the same time.



 

Dude

True enough.  Basic outline:

William of Normandy takes over in 1066.  His 'dynasty' (for lack of a better word) lasts for the better part of a century, until it ends up with a woman, Matilda.  Since women ruling countries was sufficiently outlandish at the time, there is a nasty civil war which ends with her son (by a French noble) ruling as Henry II.  Henry, of course, married the former queen of France and Duchess of Aquitaine, giving the kings of England major territorial claims in France beyond Normandy.

Henry's dynasty, the Plantagenets, rules (with some major bumps along the road) until 1485.  The main branch of the family rules until 1399, when a scion of the Lancastrian branch of the family kicked out Richard II. There are three kings in the Lancastrian line, including Henry V, who beat up the French and then made the mistake of marrying the periodically mad king of France's mad daughter.  Unsurprisingly, their son also periodically went mad, which was the proximal cause of the War of Roses.  During that war, Edward, Duke of York (another branch of the Plantagenet family) challenged the Lancastrian king Henry VI and eventually won out.  The final act of this messy end of the Plantagenets came when Edward died and his young son was set to succeed him.  The boy was dominated by his uncle, however; he was forced from the throne by some political maneuvering, and then disappeared under mysterious circumstances.  The uncle went on to become Richard III, last of the Plantagenets, who died in battle against Henry Tudor.

Henry went on to become Henry VII, the first of the Tudors, who ruled until 1603.  Henry's daughter married the king of Scotland, and their descendant, James VI of Scotland, therefore succeeded the last Tudor, Elizabeth I, when she died without issue, starting the line of the Stuarts.  Here's where the Germans come in.  James married a daughter to one of the major players in the Holy Roman Empire, Frederick of the Rhineland-Palatinate.  This, incidentally, was the same Frederick who kicked off the Thirty Years War when he accepted the crown of Bohemia when it was offered by some Protestants who weren't fond of the Catholic Habsburgs (it didn't end well).  Their daughter, Sophia, married a German noble named Ernest, who became the Elector of Hanover.  They had a son named George.  More on him in a bit.

In the meantime the Stuarts were pissing people off in England, and Oliver Cromwell famously had the head chopped off James I's son, Charles I.  The royal family fled to France, where they stayed until Cromwell died and the country decided to have their kings back.  The time in France doomed the Stuarts, though, since the Catholicism the second son of Charles I, James II, picked up made him extremely unpopular.  He was eventually kicked out and went back to France, and his daughter, married to a Protestant Dutch prince, invited to rule.  They had no children; then another Protestant daughter of James II ruled and also had no children (ETA well, she had a bunch of children, but they all died).  With only Catholic Stuarts left in France, the English invited George, with properly Protestant credentials, to rule them.  He became the first Hanover, which family ruled until Victoria.  She married a prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and the rest you know.

FTFY  that's when German Shepherd Dogs suddenly became "Alsatians", In the town i grew up in "Kaiser St" became "Liberty St", and the Jelly Sandwich cookied formely Known as "Kaiser Biscuts' were now "Empire Biscuits"..among other things of that nature.

Wow, you even got the jacobites in there.    There is some Bavarian prince would would be King of England if you went back to the Stuarts, but they don't, by law, since the Monarch in England must be descended from Empress Sophia.

For completeness, the end of the Hanovers in England happened becuase of the laws in Germany that only males could inheret the crown.  Therefore Victoria cecame Quenn of England, and one of her uncles got all the titles in Hanover.

As a distraction......Pippa

Outshines HRH Prince Andrew as "The Ass" of the Royal Faimily  

ETA:  stunned into poor spelling

I believe it to be Kinkleberry.

Rabinowitz.

Knobby elbows.  

 

Can anyone guess what pippa means in Swedish?

Yes I believe it does.








 

 
 

If they took beans, they must have been planning to make REAL chili.

Quoted:
Until 1917 it was Gotha-Saxe-Coberg, then, because of the war,  the King decreed the following:

Now,  therefore, We, out of Our Royal Will and Authority, do hereby declare and announce that as from the date of this Our Royal Proclamation Our House and Family shall be styled and known as the House and Family of Windsor, and that all the descendants in the male line of Our said Grandmother Queen Victoria who are subjects of these Realms, other than female descendants who may marry or may have married, shall bear the said Name of Windsor...[1]

Far from the only beef...

1913?

Lord Freeloader

It's actually fairly common for nobles and royals to be known by their titles rather than their surnames/households.

I find the whole Royal family thing to be a big crock of shit.  Screw em.  Tell them to go get a damn job and get off the public dole.  Leaches on a British economy in shambles...

$400,000 for a damn wedding dress.