Elizabeth looks about 10. That would be 1938. Hitler had been pulling Germany together and it isn't weird that the royal family would be friendly to a head of state. Later, everyone pulled together against the Germans except the Duke of Windsor, and Elizabeth at least never liked or forgave him.
And as to her great-grandparents being German imports, so what? That goes waaay back, you could say the French ones were the interlopers. https://www.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-45555320100120
More recently, this German is the patriarch of all European royalty. https://www.unofficialroyalty.com/johan-willem-friso-prince-of-orange/
The whole patrilineal system obscures the fact that all the royalty and a heck of a lot of people in Europe and thus the rest of the world are related through another remarkable woman in their matrilineal lineage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl4WtajjMks&t=816s
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garsenda,_Countess_of_Forcalquier
Provence is between France and Germany, sometimes one, sometimes the other. They're Germans all the way down.
Edit Strike that last--I was thinking about Lorraine. Provence is more between France and Spain. (Blush). Anyway, Garsenda had only two children, yet managed to be the matriarch of royalty today.
Elizabeth looks about 10. That would be 1938. Hitler had been pulling Germany together and it isn't weird that the royal family would be friendly to a head of state. Later, everyone pulled together against the Germans except the Duke of Windsor, and Elizabeth at least never liked or forgave him.
And as to her great-grandparents being German imports, so what? That goes waaay back, you could say the French ones were the interlopers. https://www.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-45555320100120
More recently, this German is the patriarch of all European royalty. https://www.unofficialroyalty.com/johan-willem-friso-prince-of-orange/
The whole patrilineal system obscures the fact that all the royalty and a heck of a lot of people in Europe and thus the rest of the world are related through another remarkable woman in their matrilineal lineage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl4WtajjMks&t=816s
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garsenda,_Countess_of_Forcalquier
Provence is between France and Germany, sometimes one, sometimes the other. They're Germans all the way down.