00907nam a2200133Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200180007610000190009424500180011326000280013150006020015965000120076120250719144647.0250719s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a9783598230035  a941.5081bURB  aThomas, Andrew 0aRoyal Kinship  bWalter de Gruyterc2008  aWhenever the British Press wants to attack the Royal Family, they make a jibe about “their foreign roots”. The Royals – as they say – are simply a posh version of German invaders. But did German relatives really influence decisions made by any British monarchs or are they just an “imagined community”, invented by journalists and historians? The Royal Archives at Windsor gave the authors – among others John R hl, doyen of 19th century monarchical history – open access to Royal correspondences with six German houses: Hanover, Prussia, Mecklenburg, Coburg, Hesse and Battenberg.  aGermany