How is the royal family thought of in their homeland [Germany]?

Answer 1

I rather doubt they are "thought" of at all.

Answer 2

As an American who reads German, I occasionally pick up a German tabloid. These magazines have the same stories anyone would expect to find on the British Royals anywhere. Germans keep up with the British Royal Family, but they also know about Princess Caroline, Stephanie, and Prince Albert of Monacco--and David Hasselhof, for that matter, just as Americans do. Almost two centuries have lapsed since the Duchy of Hanover severed any hereditary ties with the British Royal family, and after World War I, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha lost any claim to his British title.

Upon the ascent of the Duke of Hanover to the English throne, the Duchy of Hanover was joined in a personal union with the English Throne from 1714 to 1837. When Queen Victoria became Queen, these ties were broken because Salic law prevented a female from inheriting the Hanoverian title. In the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, Hanover was annexed by Prussia and became the Province of Hanover.

Similarly the two duchies of Saxe-Coburg and Saxe-Gotha were joined in personal union with the British Royal Family between 1826 and 1918. When the older brother of Queen Victoria's consort, Prince Albert, Ernest II, died childless in 1893, the Duchies' constitutions excluded the King of England and the English heir apparent from accepting the title[s]. Accordingly, after several members of the British Royal Family declined the title of Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, it eventually passed to the 16-year-old son of Queen Victoria's youngest son who reigned simultaneously as Duke Carl Eduard of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Leopold, the British Duke of Albany. Carl Eduard, however, fought for Germany during World War I and was consequently stripped of his British title in 1919. As of now, Saxe-Coburg and Saxe-Gotha form the present-day German states of Bavaria and Thuringia.

Of course, all four of Prince Philip's sisters married and had children by German princes:

---Margarita, Princess of Greece and Denmark (1905-1981), married Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

---Theodora, Princess of Greece and Denmark (1906-1969), married Berthold, Margrove of Baden)

---Cecile, Princess of Greece and Denmark (1911-1937), married Georg Donatus, Grand Dule of Hesse by Rhine

---Sophie, Princess of Greece and Denmark (1914-2001), first married Prince Christoph of Hesse-Casseli, and later married Prince George William of Hanover

Incidentally, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was the only European entity to appoint a diplomat to the Confederacy in the American Civil War. Ernst Raven, a diplomatic exequatur, was stationed in Texas (where there was--and is--a large German population).

Answer 3

I am sure that this isn't the last time I will say this but here goes anyway, They Are Not German! They are British.

Answer 4

The Family is not German, the Queen is British, her nearest relation who was German was her great-great grandfather Prince Albert. She's more Scottish (half) than German.

Answer 5

They had two major wars in the last century, what do you think?

Answer 6

Does being a moron come naturally to you, or do you practice a lot.