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re: What royal house was the best in the U.K. History?
Posted on 4/2/18 at 9:36 pm to TxTiger82
Posted on 4/2/18 at 9:36 pm to TxTiger82
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Stuart: Not one but two monarchs deposed. WTF Stuarts.
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The Tudors: More chaos than accomplishment, honestly.
I agree completely. It’s fashionable nowadays to exalt Henry VIII for splitting from Rome, but people don’t realize Henry was not splitting for religious reasons. He was always a die hard catholic, as far as dogma. He hated Luther.
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The Normans: They came, they conquered, they died after three kings.
Gotta give them credit for the conquering though. Who knows what happens if the white ship doesn’t sink.
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Posted on 4/3/18 at 7:27 am to NYNolaguy1
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The Brits were never big into fielding a big army until WWI-they were always a yuge sea power, which helped them gain huge resources from connecting profitable lands together, so long as they could be pacified with relatively few resources.
I get that, which is why another place that had people as adept and educated as them stood up to them, they lost.
Posted on 4/3/18 at 7:34 am to TigerFanInSouthland
the plantagets( Edward 3 from braveheart), or richard lionheart/ alfred the great. they had actual power.
Posted on 4/3/18 at 7:53 am to TigerFanInSouthland
House of Wessex saved the UK from just being a part of Denmark.
Angevins and Plantagenets made sure England was a major regional power
Tudors made England a global power
Hanovers/Saxe Coburg Gotha/Windsors (All same family with different names)- modernized the planet and Westernized it via the British Empire.
Also lost 13 North American colonies to revolution but were smart enough to ally with them over a hundred years in the future to ensure a smooth transfer of global power and influence in order to preserve the advanced society that was created.
Angevins and Plantagenets made sure England was a major regional power
Tudors made England a global power
Hanovers/Saxe Coburg Gotha/Windsors (All same family with different names)- modernized the planet and Westernized it via the British Empire.
Also lost 13 North American colonies to revolution but were smart enough to ally with them over a hundred years in the future to ensure a smooth transfer of global power and influence in order to preserve the advanced society that was created.
Posted on 4/3/18 at 7:57 am to Jim Rockford
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Best is the wrong word to use, because they were all pretty shitty people.
Did you know them personally? Otherwise, that is a pretty ignorant thing to type.
They made the world a safer, worthwhile, and more comfortable place to live, while advancing ideas of science, representative government and basic rights.
What shitty people....
Posted on 4/3/18 at 8:04 am to TigerFanInSouthland
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Yeah but they lost to a few colonists in what would end up becoming the most powerful country in the world within the next century or so.
That’s gotta take away from that.
The British Empire had the most powerful military in human history at that time. The Americans wanted their own country and paid a high price to defeat the British.
I think it is safe to say NO ONE could have stopped the American Revolution.
Posted on 4/3/18 at 8:26 am to Tigeralum2008
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The British Empire had the most powerful navy in human history at that time.
Fify. They were always a major sea power with a small but professional army.
This post was edited on 4/3/18 at 8:34 am
Posted on 4/3/18 at 9:32 am to TigerFanInSouthland
Hanover ruled at the peak but Windsor weathered two world wars and oversaw the mostly peaceful dissolution into the commonwealths after being put on Papa USA's knee. (As much as y'all bitch about FDR on here. He and his cronies struck some savage deals detrimental to the UK to go after Germany first.)
It'd be a hard call.
The romantic in me thinks Hanover for being the last days of adventure.
It'd be a hard call.
The romantic in me thinks Hanover for being the last days of adventure.
Posted on 4/3/18 at 9:24 pm to ZappBrannigan
Hanover and Windsor are same house. Saxe Coburg Gotha was the family name of Prince Albert,Queen Victoria's consort. Their son was the first of that name and the same house as Windsor, which is just a made up British sounding name bc the other was too German sounding during WW1.
It's a direct line from George I to Elizabeth II.
It's a direct line from George I to Elizabeth II.
Posted on 4/3/18 at 9:48 pm to tigahbruh
House of Merica
Posted on 4/3/18 at 9:50 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Since I share the name of the baddest motherfricker from Wessex, and the only English monarch with the epithet of 'the Great', I'm going with them.
Danes BTFO
Danes BTFO
Posted on 4/3/18 at 10:03 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Has to be Tudor because it lead Hans Wilsdorf to create a great watch line. Which incorporated the Rose emblem because Henry VII adopted the Tudor rose badge conjoining the White Rose of York and the Red Rose of Lancaster.
Posted on 4/3/18 at 11:41 pm to highcotton2
Great thread. I'm a bonafide Anglophile.
I would like to read a concise anthology of the royal houses; anyone have recommendations??
I would like to read a concise anthology of the royal houses; anyone have recommendations??
Posted on 4/4/18 at 12:57 am to HempHead
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Since I share the name of the baddest motherfricker from Wessex, and the only English monarch with the epithet of 'the Great', I'm going with them.
There was a Hemphead the Great??
Posted on 4/4/18 at 12:59 am to Havoc
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There was a Hemphead the Great??
Alfred. Congrats, y'all know my legal first name.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 1:06 am to HaveMercy
This is probably what you’re looking for.
Posted on 4/4/18 at 1:06 am to HempHead
You're so fricked now.
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