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Nov 14, 2023 30 tweets 6 min read
ROYAL ANCESTORS OF KING CHARLES III OF THE UK
(Expanded Version)

In honor of King Charles III's 75th birthday, here is an expanded/extended version of his royal ancestry.

I will link the original chart I posted in the second tweet, so I will not be repeating what I...

/1 Image ...wrote in that thread. I will instead point out notable additions.

Here is the link to the original thread:

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Oct 13, 2023 27 tweets 5 min read
HOW DID THE GLÜCKSBURGS BECOME KINGS OF DENMARK?

a.k.a The 1848 Danish Succession Crisis

a.k.a The Schleswig-Holstein Question

An old joke attributed to British statesman Lord Palmerston goes, "Only three people have ever really understood the Schleswig-Holstein business –
/1 Image ...the Prince Consort [Albert], who is dead – a German professor, who has gone mad – and I, who have forgotten all about it."

The S-H-Q was an extremely complicated issue regarding the relationship of the two duchies of Schleswig and Holstein to the Danish crown, to the...

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Sep 23, 2023 29 tweets 6 min read
ROYAL ANCESTORS OF KING CHARLES III OF THE UK

My previous chart showed how KCIII is related to the other European royals, based on common descent from three people: Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld; Tsar Paul of Russia; and Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden.

/1 Family tree showing the royal ancestors of King Charles III of the United Kingdom Here I am focusing on KCIII and his descent from the royal houses of Hanover, Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Württemberg, Hesse-Kassel, Hesse-Darmstadt, and lastly Oldenburg and its two cadet branches: Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov & Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

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