Why do the British Royal family disassociate themselves from their German and Greek roots?
They definitely DO NOT disassociate from their Greek roots. HRH Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is the son of Greek royalty. He is the first son and fifth and final child of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg. In fact, HRH William, Prince Of Wales is the Godfather to HRH Konstantinos-Alexios De Grecia of Sparta, Prince of Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Glücksburg of the House of Oldenburg – Prince Of Greece, Prince Of Denmark, Lord Of Sparta. Prince Konstantinos is the future Crown Prince of Greece, that is if the Greeks decide to restore their now defunct Monarchy in his lifetime. Though he is not recognized as such in Greece. As far as the Germans, from 1914 to 1918 Britain was at war with Germany. The German Kaiser Wilhelm II, who for the British public came to symbolise all the horrors of the war, was the King’s first cousin. Queen Mary, although British like her mother, was the daughter of the Duke of Teck, a descendant of the German Royal House of Württ
