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Old 20-November-2007, 10:13 PM
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[Snip!] The name Windsor was taken in the First World War when it was thought a Germanic name wasn't really appropriate. Queen Victoria the Kaiser's Aunt, His mother was British Royalty. It was a tangled web.
If I'm not mistaken, Queen Victoria was Kaiser Wilhelm II's grandmother. Tsar Nicholas II was another grandson of hers. What a tangled web!
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