Gaz wrote:
> 43 Elephants wrote:
>> Steve Walker wrote:
>>> Gaz wrote:
>>>> 43 Elephants wrote:
>>>>> Baldoni wrote:
>>>>>> Could the heir to the throne marry a non European. Or rather
>>>>>> would he be *allowed* to marry anyone other than a European. Would it
>>>>>> be possible for the heir to the British crown to marry a
>>>>>> black person ?
>>>>> Sorry only Krouts and Dagos.
>>>> Queen Elizabeth was born in London, her mother was born in London,
>>>> her mothers father was born in London, her mothers mothers was also
>>>> born in london, her father was born in Norfolk, his father was born
>>>> in london and his mother was born in London.
>>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Windsor
>>> " By virtue of Queen Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert of
>>> Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, son of Duke Ernst I of the small German duchy
>>> of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, her descendants were members of the ducal
>>> family of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha with the house name of Wettin.
>>> Victoria's son Edward VII and his son George V reigned as members of
>>> this house. However, high anti-German feeling among the people during
>>> World War I
>>> prompted the Royal Family to abandon all titles held under the
>>> German crown and to change German-sounding titles and house names
>>> for English-sounding versions. On 17 July, 1917, a royal
>>> proclamation by George V provided that all agnatic descendants of
>>> Queen Victoria would be members of the House of Windsor with the
>>> personal surname of Windsor. The name Windsor has a long association
>>> with English royalty through the town of Windsor and Windsor Castle.
>>> "
>> So although born in Norway if I change my name to
>> Westminster bridge it will make me English?
>
> If your mother was English, and your father was English, and both of their
> mothers and fathers were English, yes it would make you English.
>
Not if I were born in Norway it wouldn't.
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