Historian Reacts - Brief History of the Royal Family by CGP Grey
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- Опубликовано: 26 мар 2021
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statistically speaking, i think one of us has to be related to the royals right?
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Hey Ryan! All in all, what do you think about the claim that the Royal house of Windsor is technincally still German or a descendant of the house Saxe-Coburg, that would have remained in power without the First WW?
From my understanding, the House of Windsor is the House of Saxe-Coburg, they just simply rebranded their name during the first world war due to the anti-german sentiment in Britain. So technically the House of Windsor is German but so are the English because Angles and Saxons and all that fun stuff.
Quite right, they are German, only new blood was Diana and Kate Middleton. Inbreeding, not good. At least they are trying to get some new genes. Glad you have Harry, yours for good, we don't want him back.
She was a Nazi sympathiser and they found out so they forced him to abdicate and also the fact that she was a divorce and was having a affair with Nazi ambassador in UK.
King Edward 8 was trying to make peace with Nazis in return for free reign across Europe .....I recommend watching the crown season 2 episode 6 to understand it clearly....
@@catherinewilkins2760 actually both Katherine and Megan have royal ancestors and so did Diana though further up and is more mixed then the closer descendants of the royal family though so is better but still common ancestors. Diana is a descendant of Catherine Carey who was Henry the 8ths daughter though illigimate with Mary Boleyn which would make her a granddaughter of Henry the 7th like King Charles is.
”Who doesn’t like the Dutch?”
Indonesians, probably. At least at the time of the VOC.
Fun Fact: All english kings since Matilda were descendants of Alfred the Great because Henry I. wife's mother was the sister of the last male-line member of the House of Wessex, Edgar "Aetheling". (Sorry, my keyboard doesn't have Old English letters)
hahah it's all good, neither does mine
You mean the character "Æ"?
Edward was also pro-nazi so it’s ok that he got lost to marry simpson.
And a shame that he wasn"t hanged in 1940 for betraying the Allies, and also deserting his post.
Cromwell is NOT the "Glorious Revolution." It was the English Civil War which ended in 1649. "Glorious Revolution" was in 1688, when William and Mary overthrew James II.
Mary being the daughter of James VII / II, this also ties into the part about "dethroning your dad". And in Mary’s case, apparently using the palace beds as trampolines to celebrate becoming queen. Or is that just a rumour ?
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My politics are very left-wing, but I support monarchy, because it prevents the adulation going to a dodgy politician. (Notice that some very democratic and happy countries have monarchies: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands.)
And since a small child I've loved Royal family trees. I especially love the complexity round the Wars of the Roses! (There's always one...)
I agree with other commenters; it's wrong to start in 1066. Harold II Godwinsson was a usurper, whose supporters may well have murdered Edward the Exile (son of Edmund II Ironside, grandson of Ethelred II the Unready, descendant of Alfred the Great). William the Conqueror rightly thought himself to have a better right to the throne, since his wife was a descendant of Alfred. Edward the Exile's daughter St Margaret, Queen Consort of Scots, in addition to being the mother of three Scottish Kings, had two daughters. Lady Edith married Henry I, was rechristened Matilda, was the mother of the Empress Matilda, and was the grandmother of Henry II; her sister Lady Mary was the mother of Matilda of Boulogne, wife of King Stephen. (The Empress and Matilda of Boulogne fought over England in 1141.)
So the succession to the English Crown goes back over a thousand years ( as does the Scots Crown).
I believe the word 'king' is from 'cyning', which means 'a member of the royal tribe', and the most ancient way of us choosing our monarch is for Parliament - or its predecessors - to choose the prince we want, not necessarily the strictly next in line. So an Act of Parliament of 1701 is the Queen's right to the throne. The Wars of the Roses were really over this, the Yorkists insisting on strict hereditary succession. They lost.
Poor Henry II. Every one of his sons AND his wife rebelled against him eventually. Even his favorite, the baby of the family, John. He had been ill for a while, but the shock of finding John's name among the people joining Richard in rising up against him seems to have been the last straw in his ability to withstand his sickness, and he fell into a feverish coma and died soon after.
And if anyone's bored by the Wars of the Roses, they're not paying attention. That shit was a clusterf*ck, pure chaotic madness and it's *fascinating* as all hell.
It's not too confusing, he's just talking really fast. Henry VIII's sister, Margaret, married the King of Scotland. Voila! Scots royalty now has legitimate royal English blood.
Nope, that's not the Glorious Revolution. That's just the English Civil War. The Glorious Revolution was decades later and brought William and Mary to the throne as co-monarchs. And ooooh yes, Queen Anne really did suffer a LOT due to the toll 17 pregnancies had on her body. Though, not all of the children died in infancy. She had *one* son that lived beyond babyhood, but sadly not too much farther, as he died just after his 11th birthday of a sudden illness. They can't decide if it was smallpox or pneumonia...or even something else. It's kind of a blessing, though, because William was extremely sickly and partially brain damaged from being born with hydrocephalus (a build up of fluid around the brain). Both his ability to speak and to walk had been delayed because of it. Poor kid. (She also had two other kids who didn't die immediately after birth, but one died at a year old and the other died at two.)
We actually dodged a bullet there with Edward VIII abdicating, as both he and Wallis Simpson were Nazi sympathizers who actually hung out with Hitler like a buddy. WWII would have gone a LOT different if Edward VIII was allowed to stay married to Wallis while keeping his crown. Yes, English monarchs don't have a lot of power over Parliament, but they're still important.
Well, it MIGHT have had something to do with the fact that he was extremely unwilling to give up even a small part of his power (and income) in favour of his sons...
One thing to think about, if the Edward hadn’t abdicated, in No No 2, he was pro German and would have pushed for surrender.
Yeah, true. I completely forgot about his attitude towards the Germans. But a long time ago, I had heard that George VI was kind of wanting Churchill to lose because Churchill was gonna keep them in the war, but I can't remember where I heard that so idk if it's true
@@RyanPetersonReacts Mustache man plotted to oust George and replace him with Edward. George was too kind to his elder brother as he was a traitor but the exile was the reward. Elizabeth honestly never recovered from the scandal.
@@RyanPetersonReacts what happened was that George wanted to avoid a second world war since the first one was bad enough.
Hence a big controversy happened when Chamberlain returned with the infamous "treaty" promising peace and king George 6 invited him to the balcony where they waved at the crowd.
But as we know,the peace never happened and the king became supportive of the war also because Churchill and he were good friends
The modern British Royal family descends from the house of Wessex through Matilda of Scotland, wife to Henry I and mother to Empress Matilda!
Have you done CGP's "Rules for Rulers"?
Great meditation on the key factors that influence history.
Wow amazing i have never seen this kind of content before it is amazing and wonderful the same time.
Just a wee correction. The glorious revolution of November 1688, is also known as the Glorieuze Overtocht or Glorious Crossing by the Dutch, was Mary and William of orange as they were kinda invited to invade and take over. Cromwell was the civil war 👍
Confusing English Civil War with the Glorious Revolution, are we? :-)
Creates the Rule of Two and is shocked when apprentice/heir rebels… Henry II is shocked pikachu meme.
0:39 Historian breakdown initiating
Some of the periods are messy as hell
to understand why Young King Henry rebelled against his father, I would suggest watching Britain's Bloodiest Dynasty on the channel Timeline or Absolute History on RUclips. Warning you now though, it is a bit graphic, so probably don't react to it, or if you do, don't show the video. However this series and its sequel series, Britain's Bloody Crown ( about the war of the roses) are very good.
The First and Second Triumvirate was a much simpler system I tell you.
Though not as efficient and dignified as the Principate 😉 🐝♔🐝
1:46 Seriously ? Do you know how much Nordic culture still survives in Normandy today, let alone in the 11th century ? As far as fighting your dad goes, in Scotland we had James III versus the future James IV ... and lots of similar. 9:17 The "Glorious Revolution" wasn't during the Cromwellian era - it happened in 1688, to King James VII (James II for England and Ireland).
Because of Filip August of France Henry's sons had rebeled against him because Filip need a cover for his reconquest of english continental feuds on his home turf.
Alfred the great though was the king of Wessex not England. There was no England back then and the other parts of England were other countries with other kings. Alfred's son or grandson was the first king of England so could start with them but he must want to start with William the conquor.
Yay Grey.
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