An old joke attributed to British statesman Lord Palmerston goes, "Only three people have ever really understood the Schleswig-Holstein business –
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...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.
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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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