I knew that Philip was of German descendence, but I did not know that "Mountbatten" is the Anglification of the German family name Battenberg (Berg=mount). :)

I hope you did not tell the students that, or that the "Saxe-Coburg and Gotha" family in England changed their name to "Windsor" in WW1, due to the annoying Gotha biplane bombers and anti-german sentiment.
German William 2nd, with a wink, promptly "threatened" to perform the "Merry Wives of Windsor" as "Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg Gotha".

99 years old. A good run. RIP.

This remind me of a series called something with Cousin in/at war on our Viasat History channel some years ago.

It was about the royalist in Russia, Germany, UK and some other European country before, during and after WWI.

I hope they will make a rerun of this series, because I didn't see it from first episode.

Markus

Sad news.


R.I.P., sir.

"Good night sweet Prince, and flights of Angel's sing thee to thy rest."Hamlet act 5: scene 2:Kaleun_Salute: https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.town...ize=1200%2C800

RIP, it's a Meghan Markle world now. I don't much want to live in it either.

Sad news.


I wonder how long Elizabeth has. They were close for such a long time it is not uncommon for the "other" to pass quickly. :(

Rest in peace and condolences to those who reside in England who are feeling the loss.

Born: June 10, 1921, Mon Repos, Corfu, Greece :yep:

Prince Philip quite a jokester, uh?


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Yes, but it is a German noble house, The Battenbergs. When him and Elizabeth became seriously close, it was determined to hide this from tbe British public, so short after the war. Closesr relatives of Philip had served in the Luftwaffe and Marine. During a very successful state visit of the couple to Germany many years later, it was kept from the public that his German family met him on secondary side trips. From the big show on national level, they were banned, were not invited, to not rub it the Brits under their Nose. Queen Mum did not accept him for many years, calling him The Hun.


Its funny that the Brits still think they had won! :O:


As Catfish said, the links between British and German high houses has been and still are very close. One knows each other very well.

I'm very much aware of the true story about this picture but a growing number of people are happy to believe Her Majesty was being 'pranked' so I'm comfortable posting it here.

https://i.postimg.cc/y8xq7p3H/ea1fde...7921ef6cee.jpg

It is being touted that the Prince dressed as a Guardsman to welcome the return of the Queen from one of her official functions and the photo supposedly captures the scene on her face when she recognises him when in truth he was actually about to attend an official Guards function wearing a Guards uniform he has warn on quite a few occasions in the past.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pr...p-prank-queen/