Royal Kinship. Anglo-German Family Networks 1815-1918
Prinz-Albert-Forschungen, Band 4 1. Aufl.
von:
Karina Urbach, Clarissa Campbell Orr, John Davis, Andreas Gestrich, Jonathan Petropolous, Torsten Riotte, John Röhl, Daniel Schönpflug, Matthew Seligmann, Monika Wienfort
<p> Whenever the British Press wants to attack the Royal Family, they make a jibe about “their foreign roots”. The Royals – as they say – are simply a posh version of German invaders. But did German relatives really influence decisions made by any British monarchs or are they just an “imagined community”, invented by journalists and historians?</p>
<p>The Royal Archives at Windsor gave the authors – among others John Röhl, doyen of 19th century monarchical history – open access to Royal correspondences with six German houses: Hanover, Prussia, Mecklenburg, Coburg, Hesse and Battenberg.</p>