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Saxe-Coburg? Are these guys cousins to the British royal family? Time to do some googling

• kabes 2mo ago
  Aren't all EU royalty related somehow?
  • mschild 2mo ago
    Somewhat https://royalconstellations.visualcinnamon.com/ https://royalconstellations.visualcinnamon.com/
• hyperman1 2mo ago
  It's German, not British. When Belgium was founded, the fear was it would immediately try to join France. So when a French noble was offered the throne, he actually said no, quite a blemish for the young nation. A surplus German noble was crowned, which was palatable to the English as it balanced things out a bit.
  • NDlurker 2mo ago
    "The British branch was officially renamed to House of Windsor by British king George V in 1917, during the First World War, amid anti-German sentiment." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha
    • hyperman1 2mo ago
      Cool. Didn't know that. Maybe, after all the intermarriaging of royal lines, we should just call them european royal houses.