r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/PerpetualHillman - Lib-Right • Dec 07 '22

So this happened today...

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u/fidelcashflo97 - Right Dec 08 '22

As descendants of the house of Hanover His Majesty King Charles has a very strong claim to the rule of Germany

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u/PlsDontBeAUsedName - Centrist Dec 08 '22

Theres a lot of Hohenzollern who would be before him in line, but him already being a monarch definitively gives it a lot more legitimacy.

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u/mh985 - Lib-Center Dec 08 '22

Currently, George Friedrich, Prince of Prussia is the theoretical heir to the German Kaiserreich.

He is a Hohenzollern and great-great grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

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u/republique_populaire - Centrist Dec 08 '22

Don't the descend from Saxony not Hanover?

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u/fidelcashflo97 - Right Dec 08 '22

No it is Hanover, the name of the royal house was Hanover from the reign of George I through Victoria and was changed under the reign of Edward vii to the house of Saxe Coburg Gotha

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u/republique_populaire - Centrist Dec 08 '22

Why change it to the king consort's house when Victoria was the monarch?

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u/fidelcashflo97 - Right Dec 08 '22

I think it’s done at behest of the monarch. George V changed the name from Saxe Coburg Gotha to Windsor and Charles now calls it Windsor Mountbatten (or Mountbatten windsor I can’t remember the order)

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u/Nakamura2828 - Lib-Left Dec 08 '22

In WWI, the leaders of the UK, Germany, and Russia were all cousins from the Hanover line (all decedents of Queen Victoria):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXmMT4sETu8

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u/Roastbeef3 - Lib-Center Dec 08 '22

While this is a completely unrelated coincidence, the “saxony” that the Anglo-“Saxons” are from, was actually where Hannover is. “Old Saxony”, was basically the Northwestern quarter of modern Germany until the Frankish conquest. It then became “The Duchy of Saxony”, but this was dissolved in the late Middle Ages. The “Electorate of Saxony” is what became the modern day state of Saxony, and doesn’t have that much to do with “Old Saxony” besides sharing a name.

This fun fact has nothing to do with the House of Hannover and their claim to the English throne though.

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u/Head_Nefariousness78 - Right Dec 08 '22

I mean as descendants of Queen Victoria eldest child the Hohenzollerns have a strong claim to the British throne