"The House of Windsor was created in 1917 to conceal the German roots of the King and Queen and the deception enabled the monarchy to be perceived as British by subjects who despised Germany.
Until then,many English kings never spoke the King's English.They spoke only German for almost two hundred years,from 1714 until this century,a long line of German kings ruled the British empire.By 1915, England finally had a King,George V,who could speak English without a German accent.Although he was a German from the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha line that had ruled England for 80 years,he considered himself to be indisputably British.His subjects who hated Germans and all things Germanic were not convinced."
--from "The Royals" by Kitty Kelley
Until then,many English kings never spoke the King's English.They spoke only German for almost two hundred years,from 1714 until this century,a long line of German kings ruled the British empire.By 1915, England finally had a King,George V,who could speak English without a German accent.Although he was a German from the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha line that had ruled England for 80 years,he considered himself to be indisputably British.His subjects who hated Germans and all things Germanic were not convinced."
--from "The Royals" by Kitty Kelley