The Origin and Change of the British Royal Family In the change of dynasties, why does the royal family not maintain a pure blood?
In the case of dynasties, the focus should be on the family. In order to consolidate their rule, each ruler usually traces the origins of his family until he finds an ancestor who satisfies him. This has the advantage of showing that his lineage is outstanding, and if the monarch is able to rule the kingdom better than his bloodline, then the greater the honor he will receive. The requirements for the ancestry of children are stricter, and it can be said that the royal family attaches more importance to blood than all other conditions.
In ancient China, usually only the sons of emperors and empresses, known as the eldest son, were entitled to inherit the throne, and the eldest son had no inheritance rights over the children born to other concubines. This theory of descent is not unique to the Han Chinese. Many nomadic regimes demanded even more blood, and in search of pure blood, they did not hesitate to depose historical emperors, even if they had a minor child. Also in the West, the great British royal family attaches great importance to blood, but it is said that the blood of the royal family is not actually pure, why?
Britain has the largest number of colonies in the world, and its overseas colonies are spread across almost every continent. Ironically, it was once someone else's colony. The first inhabitants of Great Britain were called Anglo-Saxons, and they were not ancient, as they were originally part of the Roman Empire.
The British Isles were impoverished by its own environmental limitations, and traditional rulers had no interest in the region. However, its natural harbor made it a prime target for pirate plunder. After the departure of the Romans, the Scandinavians came to Britain, and the Danish pirates occupied the area until 1066.
In 1066, a nobleman from the Norman region of France inspected the lands of England. So he lost no time in crossing the English Channel, overthrowing the original empire and establishing his own regime, the Norman dynasty. As a foreigner, he not only brought his relatives to England to consolidate his rule, but also gave them land and granted them large and small titles.
However, King William felt that his dynasty was not yet stable, so he found his former queen, asked her to remarry, and used his influence to expand his lineage. This queen is not an ordinary person, she has not only English but also French blood, and their union is a friendly fusion of English and French blood. Her English ancestry also made the emperor trust their children even more.
Unexpectedly, after William's death, not only did the two generations of male descendants of the family disappear, but the bloodline was broken again. Maybe it's because the Europeans don't feel it"The prince will have a kind of Xiangning", people have the mentality of watching the royal family do great things, and no one has ever thought of usurping power and seizing the throne.
After some political struggle, the royal family decided that they should at least be related by blood, if not the direct grandson of William I. Thus began an era of descendant rule in England, which, through the efforts of several generations of rulers, grew stronger and one day eclipsed the former French Empire.
In the 15th century, this dynasty was known as the Tudors, and the heir to the throne was Henry VIII. The most remarkable thing about this emperor is that he had many wives. Chinese emperors generally had three palaces and six courts, while European emperors did not dare to marry more than one wife. However, due to the need to consume and reproduce, they have their own way, and that is to find **.
Although this solved the problem of the emperor's heir to a certain extent, the lovers were illegitimate children, and it was still difficult to really occupy the throne. The number of male heirs to the Henry VIII family was already limited, so Henry VIII found a good solution - he married several wives. He married six wives, but, unfortunately, he still did not leave any heirs, so he had to pass the throne to his daughter.
However, the girl went from princess to queen, opening a new page for monarchies all over the world, creating the legend of the Queen of England. From then on, the Queen's tradition began to develop in England, and other countries followed suit.
Her name was Mary, and she was notorious for mistreating the Assassins, and after her untimely death, the throne passed to her sister Elizabeth I. Elizabeth's achievements need not be repeated, it was under her leadership that England prospered, but she was also the starting point of England's rise.
Elizabeth was a wise woman in every sense of the word, as evidenced by her approach to marriage. Elizabeth never married, not because she hated marriage, but because she understood her historical mission.
As can be seen from the traditions passed down from generation to generation in Europe, Elizabeth's wedding was officiated by the nobility of another country. And once she gets married, it means that Britain has become an ally of another country. Therefore, Elizabeth rejected a marriage with political overtones in order to maintain a neutral position, because Britain was a powerful country at that time and could not be hostile and contemptuous of other countries because of her actions.
After the death of King James I of England in 1714, the question of succession to the throne was once again in the spotlight. At first, it was the daughters who succeeded to the throne instead of the sons, but unexpectedly, due to the king's long reign, his daughter succeeded him. There was no choice but to find a distant relative of a distant relative, the son of the king's great-grandson, to inherit the throne. Ironically, the new king, a German, would be the king of England, and the king of England would not speak English.
After a few weeks of surprise study of English, a new king ascended the throne and the Hanoverian dynasty continues to this day. It is worth mentioning that soon after, another queen, Queen Victoria, was born, which she created"Empire of the Sun"。
The legal system and the hard rules of royal blood make it impossible for the British royal blood to be pure, but in the era of many European countries, not only the British but also many other countries may not be as pure as people think.
However, after the world wars, the British royal family declined, and state power fell into the hands of parliament and political parties, and the discourse around hereditary descent became an after-dinner conversation.