
How did the British royals survive WW1?
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Queen Mary Continues to Write to German Relatives
The royals themselves almost get sucked into the role of being symbolic of britishness and britain as well. They have very close connections to people who are living in germany, who are their relatives. There is no sense for the royal couple that they are anything other than british. And so you really do seeht a sort of home front narrative of th t tiis about glory. It's actually a very late war, a late war phenomenon. Do we know whose idea it was to change the royal house's name? Lord stanford the the er, the king's private secretary, is key to the decision at the name of the dynasty from sax
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