That's not in the wording. The Swedish Armed Forces vow of allegiance includes the fealty to the Monarch AND to the country specifically.
They are in many ways: how they spend Christmas, what they call their parents, funeral convention, etc.
That would be me.
As is usually the case when someone says this, not true.
I didn’t say it was the wording.
They may have a few traditions that stretch back to their origins in Germany but that doesn’t make them German any more than me attending church at Easter with my parents makes me Christian.
And even if it was the case those "German" conventions and customs have now become British conventions and customs (for whatever reasons). There is nothing the British like more than a newly created ancient tradition!
When I made the post to which you were replying I was on my phone and had to be brief. Had I been on my PC I would have mentioned that very German tradition that the Royal Family has of cutting down a small fir tree, bringing it indoors and decorating it which clearly makes them German, like everybody else who does it.
According to our brownshirts, you can never bevome a Swede, unless you already are one. I don't know how that works, since it must mean that there are no Swedes. It's very complicated. I expect it's the same in the UK. But then said shirts tend to approve of the monarchy, so maybe royals become Swedish/English much faster?
Except they light it with real candles and their main Christmas celebration is Christmas Eve, unlike Brits who do the present-opening orgy on Christmas Day.
Philip was way below Her Maj in terms of status.
I was reading the old tome t'other day, The History of the Swedes, which held that in Ancient Sweden people from Heligoland had a King who was directly descended from Odin, so he sacrificed ten of his sons to Odin as an offering. Mind boggling to see what the Goteborg lot got up to, descended from Freya, or whatevs. Your monarchs worked hard to be where they are today (although Gustav Vasa was just a rich peasant). At least Sweden kept well out of WWII so not much to say there.
Okay.
Germany came into being 1871. You don't know your history. Far more ancient are the Princes of Kiev the founders of Ukraine (i.e., which was founded by the Rus) and from whom the Russians stole the name (who were Slavic). Hence, the Stalin-led Holodomor and claims on present day Ukraine (also Slavic nowadays) takes on a cruel twist of fate as to how Eastern bloc countries were treated. But did Stalin do it with intention or was it a botched 5-year plan of the Soviet Central Committee? Stalin playing with the price of grain (which recalls the reasons for the Irish famine) may or may not have been of genocidal intent.
The last Anglo-Saxon king was Harold, see other thread.
Already discussed up thread.
