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An interesting little tidbit is that Diana actually had a more English royal pedigree than Charles, whose family is actually of German descent.
Diana had more Kings of England in her bloodline than the Queen.
Since WWI the House of Windsor has suppressed its Teutonic bloodlines and when Edward VIII was friendly to the Nazis he and Wallis Simpson, the thrice divorced Protestant were banished to the Bahamas in an attempt to diminish their presence during the war, when any and all connections to Germany would have been deeply embarassing.
Philip and Elizabeth are also distantly related, by the way. He is a Mountbatten, born in Greece but of German descent as well.
What a sad charade for Charles and Camilla, and the unfortunate and also deceased Princess of Wales.
Some say that Camilla fulfilled in Charles a sense of love from a woman who mothered him in some ways. His own Mother was distant and cold, and his Father was quite simply a son of a bitch who treated Charles horribly. To Charle's credit, his relationship with his sons is far better than with his Father.
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