Oh dear!

I don't think the average Brit is very keen on being lumped in with the Continent!

Roy Mathers wrote in post #6713403
I don't think the average Brit is very keen on being lumped in with the Continent!

Rule Britannia, Wot?

That's why there'll always be an England.

Quite right (apart from the fact that it's Britannia!

Roy Mathers wrote in post #6713492
Quite right (apart from the fact that it's Britannia!

Good thing we had that little break up a few hundred years ago then...

Fixed it...

Just a friendly little tussle (and thanks for fixing it - the word not the tussle)

Roy Mathers wrote in post #6713595
Just a friendly little tussle (and thanks for fixing it - the word not the tussle)

My abilities stretch back into history only so far...

Roy Mathers wrote in post #6713403
I don't think the average Brit is very keen on being lumped in with the Continent!

Too bad the current royal family is essentially German. Can you say Saxe-Coburg-Gotha?

That's about as silly as saying that all Australians (and most Americans) are British, as they are descended from British ancestors. The Royal Family are not German - the are merely of German descent. And their name is not Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, it's Windsor.

After three...(salutes) You chaps over in the colonies can join in . . one two three God save our gracious queen

Roy Mathers wrote in post #6716542
That's about as silly as saying that all Australians (and most Americans) are British, as they are descended from British ancestors. The Royal Family are not German - the are merely of German descent. And their name is not Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, it's Windsor.

George V, the Queen's grandfather, changed the family name in 1917. Something about the Kaiser and a little skirmish called WWI. Some, however kept their German ties and pro-German sentiments, such as the Queen's uncle, Edward VIII, a.k.a. the Duke of Windsor.

And I, while an American, am not descended from Britons. I am descended from the French. More specifically, from Celtic Bretons (my father's people) and Provençal Langedocians (my mother's people). My people kept their heads during the Revolution and left, or, more literally, by leaving.

Robert16 wrote in post #6716574
After three...(salutes) You chaps over in the colonies can join in . . one two three God save our gracious queen

Good tune. But, not having either a king or queen, we revolting colonials stuck in some different words.

This is great...only on POTN can a thread about ones glass wipes turn into an ongoing thread ahhahahah

20droger wrote in post #6717175
George V, the Queen's grandfather, changed the family name in 1917. Something about the Kaiser and a little skirmish called WWI. Some, however kept their German ties and pro-German sentiments, such as the Queen's uncle, Edward VIII, a.k.a. the Duke of Windsor.

Yes, I know all that. However, even as far back as George III, the monarch was born in Britain. My main point, though, was to point out that to say the British Royal Family is 'essentially German' is akin to saying that the future leader of the US is essentially Kenyan

LeesaB wrote in post #6717262
This is great...only on POTN can a thread about ones glass wipes turn into an ongoing thread ahhahahah

Yes, it invariably happens!