The royal weddings that shaped European history
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2018
- To Queen Victoria, marriages were about strategic alliances.
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Over the course of her 63-year reign, Queen Victoria strategically planned marriages to place her descendants in royal families all over Europe. In doing so, she created one of the most remarkable royal families in history.
By the early 19th century, Europe had been at war for decades. After the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars killed millions, European leaders came together to restore peace by reshaping major states for a new balance of power. Great Britain went on to become one of the strongest states. And years later, Queen Victoria and her husband Albert came up with a plan to maintain that political power - they married their children to monarchs across Europe. By the 1880s Queen Victoria’s children were in several important branches of Europe’s monarchies.
The royal unions didn't play out as Queen Victoria planned, but she continued to make more matches anyway. She had 42 grandchildren, and these 7 ended up on royal thrones. Her grandchildren would end up on the thrones of Britain, Russia, Germany, Romania, Norway, and Spain leading up to the most destructive war Europe had ever seen.
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Wait, why you assumed that british were the good guys back then? and that the big reason of victoria to put her family members high positions of power was for the peace of europe?
In the "impressive" photo, you forgot to mention the last reigning Bulgarian monarch (also in the picture) Romania , Greece and Bulgaria are neighbors so it probably makes sense they were one after another
Vox How about you add the music used in the videos. I'm struggling to find them. Thanks
ramos ramirez
No one said they were. But Queen Victoria's goal was to marry off all of the children and grandchildren into Europe in the hopes that it would remain unified. How is she to know that her grandkids would go fight one another?
Keeping Up With The Victorians
HAHAHHAA
LOL
Keeping up with the saxe-gothas or windsors you mean XD
interesting idea
Way more interesting
Queen Victoria was the first Kris Jenner.
Dawud G Delves... aw bless you, this comment made my day XD
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Better than that, Kris is a reincarnated...
Dawud G Delves HAHA
It's true but you shouldn't say it.
The same cousins who used to play, House together as kids, killed 10 million of their civilians lol
I suppose you wouldn't blame the presidents of warring countries of causing the deaths of their citizens?
The European royals of the 18th and 19th centuries had respect for one another, just no respect for the people they ruled over. The king of one country may declare war on the country ruled by his cousin, but it was understood that neither king would actually come to harm, and war was seen as just sporting playful competition between the interwoven branches of royal houses. The idea of caring about the sufferings of the lower classes who made up the cannon fodder infantry was only a nascent concept among the aristocracy and royalty of those times.
@@gordonsmith8899 They 100% are to blame for the deaths of their citizens
@@spencerr7176
The population rose dramatically during Victoria's reign.
Class Relations 101 I'd say
European: All Asian are the same
Also European:
Duangsavanh Phimmasone looking nothing alike lol
landx • yeah they do. Pale and lipless
S H but they’re pretty, other ethnicities can’t relate
Uuuhhhh. I’m European. Don’t dig yourself a hole here. You know that’s not a wise or true statement.
@@landx5452 you make me laugh
-Queen Victoria:I have so many people related to me
-Cenghis Khan:Amateur
That man shooted his seeds all over eurasia lol.
Genghis* or Chingis Khan
Hapsburgs: Sweet home Alabama!
*Charlemagne has entered the chat*
Caesar when he saw Cleopatra: veni, vidi, vici
When vox says footballer David Beckham instead of soccer player
Me: cries happily
Agree
Cries in British English* 😂
I tought it's an american news channel
@@MissVampire17Volovo *cries in every language except american english
Personally I cried in a sad manner like how can you call someone who plays soccer a “footballer” that is like calling a hockey player a “hockeyer” it just sounds strange
E news:The kardashians
History channel:The Victorians
4realjames ! Keeping up with the Victorians
Yes! Yes!
How does this have 2 replies?
Queen Victoria spread her lineage and hemophilia. That hemophilia actually played a part in Russia's downfall and the also affected the heirs of Spain.
So true
How can you explain it more please I'm interested
@@ArthurKnight1899 tzars boy had hemophilia which they hid from the world to keep the throne.
And trzarina belived in father Gregory rasputin to heal the boy and started listening to his advices even in military operations and she influenced her husband the tzar Nicholas with those bad decisions which led to unrest and poverty etc in russia and eventual downfall and the brutal assassination of the whole family by the bolshevicks.
@@neelimamachineni1710 yeahh I know about the Russian tzar n rasputin its cool, but what about the spanish throne?
@@alisalexter4072 Victoria passed the gene on to her youngest daughter, Beatrice, who passed it on to her only daughter, Victoria Eugenie. Victoria Eugenie married Alfonso XIII of Spain and passed it on to their oldest and youngest sons, Alfonso and Gonzalo, who both died in separate car crashes where if they hadn't had hemophilia, their injuries would have been minor. Alfonso blamed Victoria Eugenie for bringing the disease in to the family, but it didn't really cause the downfall of the Spanish monarchy the way that it did for Russia, especially since the king and queen had two other surviving sons (although their second son, Jaime, was deaf) and two daughters who also could have inherited. Spain's current king, Felipe, is the grandson of Victoria Eugenie and Alfonso's only fully healthy son, Juan, who was their third son.
You left out the personal messages between Kaiser Wilhelm and Tzar Nickolas as they called each other by their boyhood names Willy and Nicky and tried to stop the war.
That doesn't suit Vox's political agenda, so it was censored out.
Not to mention the guilt the King of Britain (George) had over his cousin "Nicky" being killed after he asked for asylum in England. Theres a documenary about it including how identical they looked
Wasn't there a quote from Wilhelm about how "grandmother would have never let this happen"
the fact that this bloodshed brought out the childhood innocence from their youth makes it all the more saddening
Diana Hernandez George and Nicky were really good-looking😍
Queen Victoria is truly the grandmother of Europe.
No
WhyNot StayHonest Yes
Clement Lee
Christian IX of Denmark is sometimes referred to as the Grandfather of Europe.
One of his daughters, Dagmar* married Alexander III of Russia and was the mother of Tsar Nicholas II
Her sister, Alexandra married Edward VII and was the mother of King George V.
*Following Russian custom she adopted the name Marie Feodorovna (Romanova) She, with two of her daughters, survived the revolution.
Maria Theresia of Austria was
@@gordonsmith8899 Don't forget about Christian that naturally his oldest son became King of Denmark, but his second son was chosen to become King of Greece as well, and his grandson was chosen as King of Norway.
WW1 was the most costly family argument ever
Yes its a Family Feud because Wilhelm II declare was on his First Cousin George V of the UK.
The Devil works hard, but Queen Victoria works harder
And me! I died from working.
Seggs
@@sgttaaca amogus
@@vimic9507 mogus
@@jamescharcoal3472 you died because you kept pumping into queen Victoria.
Victoria clearly plays a bit to much Crusader Kings II
You have earned my respect, but im afraid their isnt enough sister incest for this to be CK2 and how come the pope isnt a satanist here
I was thinking exactly that lol
This is clearly Victoria 2
Oktodenn I am waiting for Vicky 3 paradox
ECA VICTORIA III COMFIRMED
Queen Victoria, the ultimate shipper who shipped her children with people from different countries with different cultures, in an effort to bring peace to Europe.
wizard 22 lol true, but not as much as the habsburgs
They weren't all that different. Even the European peoples are all related if you go back far enough, from the UK, to Norway, to Spain, to Russia, to Italy, Germany, France, etc.
They all share an agricultural background steeped in cheeses, butter, hams, sausages, wine and/or beer, pickled foods, bread, and animal husbandry and fishing because they are essentially the same peoples reusing their techniques over different geographic areas with slight differences. These are found all over the world individually, but in all these European countries you find all of them together.
or she just wanted to have her own kins rule europe at a time when the people wanting to over throw royalty and end up like France
Central Europe was already at peace tho
"an effort to bring peace to Europe" lol
Imagine being one of Victoria’s kids and just being shipped off to some royal. Lol
Real Mexican Food Shouldn't Give You Diarrhea that would be a dream come true
lol basically like Myrcella
Shipped off, sure. But they get that wealth.
Wow... Your parents really hit a gem with that name 😂
@Real Mexican Food Shouldn't Give You Diarrhea
Britain, 19th century: marrying other royal families, trying to bring Europe to union.
Britain, 21st century: leaves European Union.
XD
You obviously didnt listen to the video lol
The plan was to not bring Europe into a Union, rather peace. And the EU is trying to federalize which will only end in catastrophe.
Game of European Thrones !
XD
Crusader kings 19th century
Basically every country in europe had something like that in its history (my country also had european version of dothraki the "mongols").
GOT is actually based on the wars of the roses in the UK so your not far off!
Yes lol
Ironically the US is more fascinated about the Royals than the British are
Justin Y. It’s common to be fascinated by that which you do not have
Your comments aren't even funny, they're either stating the obvious or not even true.
Hey look it's that guy I see everywhere
Justin Y. is the monarch of the UA-cam Comments
yesn't u
Some families can’t even maintain peace over the holiday dinner tables, and you expected this particular bloodline would be able to maintain peace over a continent and some islands? I think not.
It was not over the continent; it was over the World. most of those Great Powers held Great colonies abroad/
true...family drama on continental scale 😂💀
Yeah I mean have they watched an American Thanksgiving?
Fun fact:The king of Greece didn't want to fight Germany not only because of his relation but also because his wife was the kaiser's sister
Same. The last Tsarina Consort of Russia was the first cousin of Wilhelm II and thus her reputation was completely destroyed by WW1.
No, the King of Greece, Constantine I didn’t want Greece to fight in the war and became neutral. He was accused of being Pro-German because his wife was the Kaiser Wilhelm II’s sister. He was never Pro-German despite the relations, he was also first cousin to George V of UK.
@@billcipherproductions1789 The Tsar Nicholas II himself was a third cousin of the German Kaiser Wilhelm II . Their family was just messed up 🤦🏾♀️ it's astounding that families could go to war against each other.
@@adelaidesafoa3850 being leaders of their large respected countries, It's hard to let personal feelings affect what your government and people want. I heard apparently that Tsar Nick II sent letters to Wilhelm that he didn't want them to fight each other but it was out of their control already.
@@magentamomo7150 Yes unfortunately the Tsar's last letter wasn't able to reach the Kaiser on time to before he declared war .
When I was in Russia, I visited the Norwegian embassy, where they keep a letter from the last Russian tsar adressed to the first (independent) Norwegian king, written sometime before the 1st world war. The Russian tsar refers to him as a cousin (I'm not sure if they literally were cousins, but I believe they were related), and expresses great concern for him since he's become the monarch of such a small and poor nation and the royal facilities are so limited (palace, etc.). All of this was in English - the language they both knew, and they seemed to refer to each other with Anglicized names.
A few years later, the Russian tsar was dead, and the Russian Empire was gone. The Norwegian royal family is still here. That letter is really interesting in hindsight.
King Frederick VII, Empress Alexandra of England and Tsarina Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar) were siblings. Children of King Christian IX. Their respective children among many were, King Haakon VII (born Prince Carl of Denmark) of Norway, Queen Maud of Norway and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Hence Tsar Nicholas was referring to Maud's husband, The King of Norway, Haakon VII, as cousin. Maud was his cousin too.
Enthused Norseman
Its funny who are the rich and the poor ones now...
They were cousins but through their Danish grandfather. None of them were related to Queen Victoria, contrary to popular belief.
Tsar Nicholas II and Haakon VII were cousins-in-law to each other because of marriages through the British Royal Family
@Grand Duke of Edmonton You are forgetting that Nicky’s mother, Dagmar/Maria Feodorovna and Carl/ Haakon were both from the Danish Royal Family, a family that is really a much more authentic royal family.
Damn the politics of old royalty is fascinating. Kinda tragic how a gambit to try and bring about peace ended up failing as catastrophically as possible.
Not exacly peace, but control, peace was just an outcome of the British control over Europe, not the objective.
Luiz Henrique exactly. Spread the British seed far and wide to consolidate power. Little did she know that God is the best of planners and her objective to conquer Europe ended up backfiring.
Please cite your sources before you state with such assurance what her true motives were.
Roisin Kennan I second that
Send your kids to a far foreign land for so long and with so little or no contact with home that they become more foreign than British and forget why they got there in the first place 😅
So basically, the whole royal family in europe was descendants of tudors, windsors, bourbons, and habsburgs(am i right?)
bingo
Yes as you listed every royal family in Europe lol
Capetlings (one branch oh whom were Bourbons) and Romanoffs
Spain?
@@user-mj2jm7yl9x *Laughs in dutch*
Hemophilia for all!!
Habsburg jaw intensifies
no worries they have Rasputin
That's really bad. Unfortunately, I have hemophilia too 💔
Dw, Rasputin can cure it.
@@mesharyalayafi8268 hahaha jesus
But it's kind of amusing to remember that the British Royal family was a german dynasty and only changed their name once the first world war started.
They'd been born and bred in England since 1738.
Queen vicoria's father was german, her husband too.
Random Guy amusing? The English are just confused french germans- they've always been related. The royal family were germans...ruling over germans- and the rest of the riff raff.
Victoria's father, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, was a member of the House of Hanover from Germany, but he was born in London. All of the preceding Hanoverian monarchs with the exception of George I and George II were born in London.
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Is it just me or did i have goosebumps when they showed the similarities between the different royals?
I mixed Nicholas and George
Yeah I can watch it forever
"Queen Victoria was basically an old school off line Tinder platform.."
In doing so, she created one of the most remarkable royal families in history.
Enter Hemophilia, *everywhere*
Damn Queen Victoria is Littlefinger of game of throne
Gray fox much closer to Olenna Tyrell
James Royce-Dawson you're right
Game of thrones is based on the english civil war known as the War of the Roses
Nah she's more like Tywin Lannister
I'd say she's closest to Tywin Lannister, as it was Tywin, like Queen Victoria, that throughout the course of his tenure as the head of House Lannister, strategically planned marriages with his own children and allies children in order to tie them together and bring House Lannister to the forefront of Westerosi politics.
Olenna Tyrell on the other hand was mainly focused on damage control as her son, the Lord of Highgarden, blindly married her grand daughter off to a monster like Joffrey. And Petyr Baliesh constantly kept ruining peace in order to further his own assention up the political ladder.
Victoria of House Hanover, First of Her Name, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, Breaker of Records and Mother of Kings
jaisnav rajesh I know I know, what the British did to India was horrible. I was trying to make a pop culture reference
Soufian 27 only Ireland at the time and yes she is the empress of India
jaisnav rajesh she was empress of India.... she dies 45 years before independence was even a possibility learn your history instead of lying about how great you are
But not the Unburnt
Pop culture reference isn't great. She mightn't be a great ruler but Daenerys always tries to put her subjects first. Victoria and those ruling England at the time literally cause famines which killed millions in Ireland and India. When the Ottoman Sultan tried to send aid to Ireland, Queen Victoria stopped him because he was sending more than she had. (although he did sneak 3 ships into Waterford regardless). Not being Indian, I'm not as familiar with what England did to India but what I have learned about that is that they faired no better. Victoria and the British Empire are absolutely disgusting.
This could've all been solved with a family gathering in one of there many palaces and talk things out and get drunk the Russian way
reggie ahhh
I doubt it Reggie - Wilhelm had a kaiser-sized chip on his shoulder. He was bombastic, boastful and a pain in the neck.
The great tragedy for Europe was the early death of his father Kaiser Frederick
hahahahahahahahaha.
« Russian way » ? You mean poisoning everyone and then proclaiming their wives and territories “rightfully” yours.
@@joycerouget2379 "ours"
Vox: "Prussia the largest of all german states"
Austria: "Am I a joke to you?!"
@Bangbabangbabangbang Austria-Hungary was first a thing after the Prussian-Austrian War ^^
Austria wasn't a German state, it was its own empire.
@@piratesswoop725 bro it was and is a german state
@@foxkujo9684 hence Hitler's annexation of Austria as uniting the Germans
@@foxkujo9684 Austria a german state ? Absolutely not, German-Hungarian-Czechs-Slovaks a multicultural state and indeed an own empire. Otherwise Austria would be bigger today xd
Vox teaming up with BBC is epic😍😍
Ty vox😀
Vox is funded by CNN so it's just CNN working with BBC, as per.
SlovesL Vox Media s a completely different company than CNN though and it is working seperately too
E Smile is funded by Comcast sorry got that wrong. Still though, Vox media is worth over $1 billion, almost entirely through funding. Two of the three founders of the website are from the Washington Post. There's a full list of funders on wikipedia. Clearly, the site has a left bias, and some of the videos are very far to the left.
Of course Vox is biased, like every other person or institution; but they still make a lot of good informative content.
SlovesL bbc is neo liberal
Had Victoria lived to the WWI era, could she have halted it?
She could.😕
Maybe, She Could Angry To All Her Grandson and Grand Daughter Arounds Europe and Make Family Reunion. Except France. 😅
Tzar Nicholas is actually quoted as saying had Queen Victoria lived to see it, she would've found a way to stop it.
Gonna be honest, she probably couldn't. Europe was a powder keg waiting for something to ignite it. Once something sparked it there was no possible to stop it considering all the alliances and nationalism/patriotism.
No, the monarchy had no powers.
Can we all just say thank you to Vox for saying “football” instead of “soccer”
thank you vox
Thank you vox
MOST. BADASS. CK2. PLAYER. EVER.
I really like playing marriage game in CK2. No conquest, no independence, just a wealthy duke with a family member on the thrones. My best game was as immortal duke of Flanders and Brabant, when I took great pains to make all of Europe the glorious Dummythicc dynasty, while being a vassal of France and later HRE.
@@lizardperson9648 dummythicc?
4:58
"England joins the Battle Royale"
Lol
History summerised in a single sentence.
@@gerardcollins80 there was 2 thousands years of history before England even existed
@@dustin3294 🙄
*_Arrange Marriages: EXIST_*
*_Queen Victoria: YES_*
When you left your children home alone everything gets messed up
I think Victoria Beckham deserves the title "former spice girl" over David Beckham's wife thank you
I agree :p
No
I don’t see any problem with that
Both should be said
They described her as a fashion designer if u care to listen
Can you please stop using "of England"? That title hasn't existed since the early 18th century. The title is "King/Queen of the United Kingdom"
England is not a synonym of UK.
gognub Actually it's not Queen/King of England or the United Kingdom the Title is much larger
United Kingdom is shorthand for the full title. Using "England" is completely wrong as it does not form any part of the title.
Yeah but the UK is a lot of countries, I don’t consider her to be my people’s queen
Alabama 🤝 Europe
"Keeping things within the family"
Underrated
💀
"George was in line to be the next king of Britain and married a minor British royal family member" - that was casual.
Correction: @5:38 The map of post-war Germany is missing eastern Prussia. The borders of Austria-Hungary should also include portions of northern Serbia and southern Poland.
Nicholas, Alexandra and their five children were murdered this day 100 years ago. RIP
4:20 In middle school (13 years old) I confused the names of the king of Great Britain and the Tzar of Russia. I got 2 points out of then in the exam. Now I know why I made that mistake...
Well if you try to differentiate which on George and Nicholas, i suggest try look at their haircuts
Back in the day, your children truly were your best asset. Married them off to strengthen the alliance between monarchies. But human being human, they fought with each other, possibly over a piece of land, a different ideology, or a woman.
Poor Tsar Simeon is in the same photo and doesn't get a mention. Where's the love for the Bulgarians?
He was the last Tsar in power in the world too. It's Tsar Simeon II, named after the world's first Tsar, Tsar Simeon the Great.
Alexander Sudziarski fixed it. Must have auto-corrected and I didn't notice.
Probably because Simeon is related to Albert, Victoria's husband, but not Vic herself.
Simeon II of Bulgaria is not a direct descendant of Victoria of the UK.
.... How about the Habsburg?
RNR BOI dieb out due to inbreed
I know, but the Victorian Marriages in the video were not the only detrimental marriages in Europe then
All dead
well yea, but you can't deny its influences.
RNR BOI yeah but their influence died with their inbreeding-the Habsburgs are gone the Windsors (or if you prefer their original German name-it escapes me for now what the name was). Also the British royals had the biggest empire in history (modern history-once humans discovered most the world). So frankly as influential as the Habsburg’s were they ruined their own blood line and influence. Oh and I want to make clear i may be from the U.K. (Scotland) I’m nevertheless a republican but I can’t deny history
Christian the 9. of Denmark did a similar thing. 4 of his children were placed on european thrones, His son Frederik who would become king of Denmark, his daughter Alexandra who became the queen of England, his other daugther Dagmar as empress of Russia (know as Maria Fjodorovna) and lastly his son Vilhelm who became king Georg 1st of Greece. This was done around the same time as Victoria's children were married off to different monarchys, Since their children married eachother.
His youngest son Prince Valdemar was offered the throne of Bulgaria but declined it. Aswell as shortly before his death his grandson Prince Carl was elected to become king Haakon of Norway.
That's why he was known as the Grandfather of Europe.
Prince Albert was german and his wive Queen Victoria had german roots herself, so being close to prussia was not unusual.
Heck, until 1871, the UK and Germany were really close allies, but after Germany united, it became a threat to the UK's Pax Britannica.
Yes, Victoria was from the House of Hanover, which was german and was rulling England since George I and Sofia of Hanover
They were first cousins
Albert was mix of Prussian, Austrian, Scandinavian, French, Dutch, Hungarian, etc
@@mayumimori3279 but George I was related to Queen Anne, that’s why he inherited the throne in the first place as he was a Protestant relative, so it’s actually Scottish origin from James I
Me : I have a cousin in the us who is a yoga teacher.
Prince William : hold my tea ☕
I love the fact that in the middle of all of this, France is like "you guys still uses kings and queens to rule over your countries ? pfff lame"
Actually George V's elder brother wanted to marry a French princess
Well France was a monarchy for large parts of Victorias rule ie Napoleon III
You made it sound like those marriages were forced and none of european royal couples loved each other. But actually Nicholas II and Alexandra (Tzar and Tzarina of Russia) were in love with each other and they were the ones Who initiated that marriage. I'm sure there were other couples, who truly loved each other and weren't forced to marry
Grand duke George Romanov was a direct descendant of Queen Victoria because his father was the Great Great Grandson of Wilhelm II, The Last Kaiser of Germany and King of Prussia who in term was the Eldest Grandchild of Queen Victoria.
Vox and BBC ? Best Anime crossover !
pedrito aye!
I don't know much about her personality but if she were anything like my grandma and was still alive by 1914, she'd call her grandkids to London and whup their asses until they agreed to play nice :D
Didnt she do that with another crisis
Finally a video that helps me understand history, my mom named me Victoria Alexandrina, after queen Victoria, and it never felt right to me that I barely knew anything about her or heard anything about her even though she leads so much history with her, I'm trying to learn more now and it's refreshing to find a video that helps me understand what happened during that time
WW1: The Victorians
WW3: The Kardashians
4:08
Does anyone else find these circles to be really calming.
Ww1 was a war of cousins
Thotting your way into a dynasty
4:57 England joins the Battle Royale
Queen Victoria: *performs fortnite dance in grave*
Vox always produce their best work when they partner with the BBC
@
You do know that the Monarchs in the old days were mostly warmongers right?
Napoleon was the reason why Democratic Countries became worst than Monarchs.
The French wanted a Democratic Country because there Monarch was very corrupt.
And this "best work" still has so many inaccuracies... Wow.
@@kaizouchiha8487 you are refering to VERY old days.
0:28 Vox casually ignoring the last king of Bulgaria
Probably because he isn't really related
@@gerritkorditschke8447 he is trough Victoria's husband
@@bozhidar_bozhkov the last King of Bulgaria was the prime minister
That’s because Simeon II was not closely related to Queen Victoria, and was not one of her descendants
@@readmeup4402 Which as a Bulgarian in my opinion is ridiculous
Yikes, the ultimate lesson in “don’t talk politics at big family gatherings” 😬
Imagine had Napoleon been able to subdue the Russians, and since he's very notorious for putting his relatives in the thrones then we'll probably see Napoleon's descendants instead of Queen Victoria's. Imagine how the history for the last 200 years would have been drastically different.
Rowan Atkinson was there too ya know
OMG, as someone in the UK I can't wait for the wedding to happen, so I can stop hearing about it!
becool365 I thought you was really excited for a second there.
becool365
Ha! After the wedding is over the paps will start spamming the airwaves wondering when Harry and Meghan will have kids.
And there will be no royal wedding of any descendants of the Prince of Wales until 25-to-30 years from now.
becool365 When are you idiots gonna get rid of that plague you call royals?
Mendl's Patisserie salty
Imagine being the kids in that 1891 photo and where your uncle, aunts and grandparents were the most powerful people on Europe
Man i dont have words, i watched all Oversimplified vids and saw the conflict ,alliance and the deep meaning of every thing but this video took that to a another level
So austrian duke sir ferdiand was killed and caused the world war so that make sense now, that is the reason everyone fought some people(maybe serbian) killed literally everyones cousin
Her own grandchildren destroy the old monarchy system of Europe.
This is such an interesting series please continue it!!
It's so sad to see the grand family torn apart by war, and it's so sad to see monarchies fall.
Seeing absolutists getting rid of their power........ So sad,,
@@lightblue254 You are probably american. Aren't you?
@@Samuelissad No, German, specifically from the former Prussia
Thank you for this short documentary. I really enjoyed it.
The conclusions this video draws are faulty at best, the Great War happened *in spite* of royal familial ties. The three cousins that ruled Great Britain, Germany and Russia didn't want war and did everything in their power to prevent it.
Really disappointing that you are either basing this on bad research or knowingly draw the wrong conclusions.
“...didn’t want war and did everything in their power to prevent it”
Ha.
No.
Such an insightfull comment and explanation. I'll add to it in your brief style: Willy-Nicky telegrams.
It was a bad, comment, my bad.
But Wilhelm II and Franz Joseph did want war, at all cost.
Russia and GB didn’t though. Russia because they hadn’t finished their industrialisation, GB because of the balance of powers.
What are you talking about. Germany was planning for war *at least* by 1912 but really their actions since unification in 1871 pretty much have been aggrevating tension to cause war. The familial connection was there but I believe nationalism and glory was thicker than blood. I mean German involvement in the Boer war agaisnt the British, the naval race, the balkans crisis, the morrocan involvement and fianlly the Austrian-Hungarian ultimatum. If you look at all these events which raised the stakes and forced other countries into alliances and building great military machines, you will see the common denominator as Germany. tbf (kinda) Germany's geographical position forces it to have to subdue its neighbours to the West, France, and the East, Russia, But it appears you are the person drawing bad conclusions
Nightstark Germany and their monarch aren't the same entity, you know this right? Moreso there was Prussian (limited) constitutionalism in place in Germany.
Minor detail: Marie of Romania wasn't forced off the throne.Once Ferdinand (her husband and king of Romania) died automatically the throne went to the then heir Michael (to one you see at 0:25 seconds in the video,yes that old man).
0:27 Hey, as a lil kid I actually got to visit the former king of Romania with my parents... I clearly remember playing with plastic horses under his tea table
what?
@@lollol-ie3zf ik im also quite confused
WE NEED ANSWERS
@@zacks_wack This Story is weird
Student : why did ww1 happen?
Teacher : family issues
Ww1 in a nutshell
Germany: Grandma, Nicholas hit my friend.
Russia: But his friend hit my friend. FRANCE GET OVER HERE MY COUSIN IS GONNA HIT ME!!
Germany: If thats so then ill hit Belgium.
Belgium: ENGLAND HE HIT ME!!
England: Mummy my cousins are fighting.
Russia and France: wanna help??
England: Alright cousin.
the other interesting part is that the dynasties that were deposed in Austria and Germany after the war didn't necessarily end with that moment, with the families still holding various "official" titles and being public figures of a sorts. Nothing like the British monarchy but the descendants of Kaiser Wilhelm etc are still alive and hold somewhat ceremonial powers and garner a great deal of respect within the semi-political sphere of Europe ^.^
MALAY SUBTITLES : Part 2 of 2
04:38
Selepas kematiannya, hubungan keluarga yang dirangkai oleh Ratu Victoria di Eropah, tidak akan berlaku
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membawa keamanan, tetapi perang yang paling merosakkan yang pernah dilihat oleh Eropah.
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Kaiser, raja Gothenberg,
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bersiap menyapu padang.
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Tsar Rusia menggerakkan.
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England menyertai pertempuran royale.
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Perang Dunia Pertama meletus pada tahun 1914 dan memisahkan keluarga ini.
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Jerman Wilhelm bersama dengan Austria-Hungaria dan Kerajaan Uthmaniyyah, berperang sekutu
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diketuai oleh Britain, Rusia dan Perancis.
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Negara-negara ini berkecuali.
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Katakanlah Victoria hidup sampai kita berada di ambang perang.
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Saya fikir ia akan mematahkannya,
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patah hati,
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untuk mengetahui bahawa cucu-cucunya berakhir
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berperang antara satu sama lain.
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Perang tersebut membunuh lebih 10 juta orang dan mengakhiri era pemerintahan beraja di Eropah.
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Wilhelm, Sophia, dan Marie semua terpaksa meninggalkan takhta mereka.
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Revolusi melanda Rusia dan Alexandria dan Nicholas dilaksanakan oleh Komunis.
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Pemerintahan beraja British bertahan, tetapi perang memaksa mereka memikirkan semula strategi politik mereka.
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George, Raja George V, dan isterinya Permaisuri Mary sangat cerdik.
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Mereka melihat bahawa pemerintahan beraja harus lebih mesra dengan rakyat, harus lebih mudah diakses,
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bukan hanya duduk di sana dengan jubah yang hebat dalam kemuliaan.
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Tahulah anda, dengan mahkota mereka. Harus banyak
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lebih banyak di jalanan, berjumpa, berjumpa dengan orang ramai, menangkan keyakinan mereka.
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Jenis pemerintahan beraja yang kita ada sekarang dengan Ratu Elizabeth.
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Pendekatan itu bukan sahaja membantu memodenkan perintahan beraja British sejak abad yang lalu,
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tetapi juga
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mengubah wajah perkahwinan diraja, selama-lamanya.
I've always wondered why architecture, a London tube line, an era, and so much more were named after Queen Victoria. Basically, I've always wondered why she stood out among the hundreds of monarchs Great Britain has had.
This video answered why, thanks!
"When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground."
RIP King Michael of Romania!
Romania sucks anyway
hey ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°stupid sad internet person
Andrei Halfacree
Spotted the Romanian.
hey ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
So I guess that not being born in Romania has gifted you with superior qualities. That's probably why you don't need to try to put yourself up by putting others down while using extremely vague and unimpressive words like "sucks".
keeping up the saxe-coburg and gotha's - season 200
Would be more aptly titled "The royal weddings that failed to shape European history".
“Nobody wins when the family feuds”
6:22 HEY he’s doing the hand thing
its been 2 yrs already but i am still obsessed with this video
*opens Eu4*
*Plays Austria*
*Royal Marriages with Castile,Denmark,Milan,Hungary,Bohemia,Palatinate and Poland accepted*
*You got a PU with Bohemia,Hungary,Naples,Aragon,Castile,Poland,Lithuania,Sweden,Norway and Denmark*
no Eu4 fans? 😪
Macky Cabangon
I get you, I play crusader kings 2
I play hoi4 and am about to get eu4
RM with hungary at the start of the game is a waste of DR
That awkward moment when you never play as Catholic nations to do PUs
Yeassss i love eu4,
I always found the British Monarchy very interesting..Literally one of the oldest surviving monarchies in history. What they did differently vs other monarchies autocratic or otherwise and how they managed to survive all these centuries while still being loved.
1. Compared to others like Spain or Japan it isn’t that old, let’s consider that although they do have quite ancient ancestry, there’s a very clear split between the Plantagenets and the previous, Anglo-Saxon rulers instead of a natural succession as happened along certain lines in the other, more ancient monarchies
2. They’re really popular in the last century or so just because of what was explained in the video. Historically I’d dare say they’ve been one of the least popular monarchies, sure every monarchy has had to face usurpation plots and popular revolts and so on, but to the date the only monarchy that had faced two successful revolts against them that had the objective of reducing their powers or directly getting rid of them, in times where neither republics (or democracy for that matter) existed or still were a relevant political concept, nor concepts like communism or anarchism existed, has been the British monarchy, which would be the Magna Carta and the First Baron's War which reinstated it, and the English Civil War which ended with King Charles I executed, not to mention that later on his grandson King James II was overthrown over religious reasons.
@@juandavidrestrepoduran6007 That's a lot of words to say "I agree" lol
@@emilycanfield2634 the fact that I wrote that means I didn’t agree entirely, by explaining that the situation they’re currently in hasn’t always been so
@@juandavidrestrepoduran6007 And just because I didn't write a huge reply doesn't mean I am unaware that the British Monarchy isn't the literal oldest monarchy on the planet. But the British Monarchy is the most FAMOUS for the longest when all other monarchies have faded away and are relatively unknown globally. Eventhough all other monarchies have had violent or quiet ends the British one still prevails with popularity.
The European royals they're all related. So technically they all married to their cousin in the past. The Saddest part is that king George of England didn't even help his cousin czar Nicholas before they have been murdered.
He probably didn't know they were going to be executed.
So your saying that WW1 was a fight between cousins thats a kinda weird
All Europeans are one people. No more brother wars.
Hello from Russia
Yusuf Fakhri Aldrian you’re not European either
Enter-the Balkans
@@yusuffakhrialdrian8695 "yusuf fakhri" yeah you're not european
We’re not one people.
But no wars in Europe is something we should preserve.
Fun fact:
King George V and Tsar Nicholas II used to swap clothes at dinner parties to fool their guests!
Really? Cool!
So I actually knew all about this but it was wonderful to See this colab.
Well, I don't know about this thing. Thank you for this video.
0:25 Lol the princess of Sweden got married to a fitness coach at a Swedish gym. 😂
Queen Victoria : MY GRANDCHILDRENS ! DO NOT FIGHT !
Queen Victoria : *dies*
The grandchildrens : hey how about we fight >:)