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As an American it was hard to relate to the fear of being ruled by Germany by stealth which it came up in the TV series Victoria because her husband Prince Albe

As an American it was hard to relate to the fear of being ruled by Germany by stealth which it came up in the TV series Victoria because her husband Prince Albert was German - it seems fairly deeply rooted xenophobia? or something if it still gets brought up.

petepete 9y ago
A huge chunk of the British Royal Family is German. Albert (of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) was Victoria's first cousin.
- jwdunne 9y ago
  And at the time of the Great War, the monarchs of Britain, Germany and Russia were all first cousins. This photo is particularly striking: https://i.redditmedia.com/2ZKJnNVW1-Mn41TE8dqXFMten1_L6gBZ7I_0ZQV1Gwc.jpg?w=320&s=cef2559de0676bbf92ec52c2e9aa7684 https://i.redditmedia.com/2ZKJnNVW1-Mn41TE8dqXFMten1_L6gBZ7I...
  - TomK32 9y ago
    One small details from the months before the war: No one invited the greater family to the funeral of the murdered arch-duke.
    - jwdunne 9y ago
      Another detail near the end of the war: King George wanted to give his cousin Tsar Nicholas asylum after the Bolshevik Revolution but chose not to for political reasons. Family eh?
Chris2048 9y ago
> it seems fairly deeply rooted xenophobia How does it seem that?
- stevenwoo 9y ago
  There's a question mark you left out in your quote because I was wondering what to call it but to express it as you ask - a sentiment by some in the country (UK) expressing a resentment or paranoia over another country (Germany) potentially having control somehow over what happens in the first country(UK) when there appears to an outsider (me) to be very little control by Angela Merkel (or whomever is in charge of Germany at this moment) of what the UK is doing or Brexit would not be happening ( at any and all costs from what I'm reading about the process favoured by the ruling party in the news)
  - Chris2048 9y ago
    That Brexit is happening doesn't mean Germany has no influence over the UK. Just not enough to prevent Brexit; "very little" is not the only alternative to "absolute".

petepete 9y ago

A huge chunk of the British Royal Family is German. Albert (of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) was Victoria's first cousin.

jwdunne 9y ago
And at the time of the Great War, the monarchs of Britain, Germany and Russia were all first cousins. This photo is particularly striking: https://i.redditmedia.com/2ZKJnNVW1-Mn41TE8dqXFMten1_L6gBZ7I_0ZQV1Gwc.jpg?w=320&s=cef2559de0676bbf92ec52c2e9aa7684 https://i.redditmedia.com/2ZKJnNVW1-Mn41TE8dqXFMten1_L6gBZ7I...
- TomK32 9y ago
  One small details from the months before the war: No one invited the greater family to the funeral of the murdered arch-duke.
  - jwdunne 9y ago
    Another detail near the end of the war: King George wanted to give his cousin Tsar Nicholas asylum after the Bolshevik Revolution but chose not to for political reasons. Family eh?

Chris2048 9y ago

> it seems fairly deeply rooted xenophobia How does it seem that?

stevenwoo 9y ago
There's a question mark you left out in your quote because I was wondering what to call it but to express it as you ask - a sentiment by some in the country (UK) expressing a resentment or paranoia over another country (Germany) potentially having control somehow over what happens in the first country(UK) when there appears to an outsider (me) to be very little control by Angela Merkel (or whomever is in charge of Germany at this moment) of what the UK is doing or Brexit would not be happening ( at any and all costs from what I'm reading about the process favoured by the ruling party in the news)
- Chris2048 9y ago
  That Brexit is happening doesn't mean Germany has no influence over the UK. Just not enough to prevent Brexit; "very little" is not the only alternative to "absolute".