The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-10-10
GEORGE
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New Royal Line. y. a
Reasons for olishing Ancient Ger
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Act Enthusl ticaliy Reclaimed b
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Act Enthusl ticaliy Acclaimed b
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The shadow Of q German nationality
no longer obscures the light Of the.
English Ahation, and tie Fifth George
Of the Hanoyerianr line of British rul-,
5ers has buried the ancient German
patronymic 81 his ancestors, Guelph q
in. the vaults OF the English aWind-
sor.' 81. ;..5 e e /: ssx. 4 s. Is
Just about two centuries ago thet
German George I ascended the throne
Of England and the Stuarts were sup-I
planted by the Guelphs. OF all theI
i've Georges Of that house the present.
holder Of the title is the most English
OF them all. True, his father, Edward
WI, proved a good king, and thor,
ough Englishman, and his grandmoth-;
er, Victoria, had a grand and success
full reign, and through her mother she
inherited her adopted title Of the
House Of Saxe-Voburg, Of which fam
Uy her consort, Prince Albert, was a
member.
But the bitter feelings aroused by
the great war, the crimes unblushingly
committed by the Germans, have
caused such wave Of disgust to-
sweep over England that the king him.
self has unhesitat ingly abandoned evj
cry claim to the ancient pedigree Of
his German ancestors and, like his
great ancestor, Edward /, has declared
for an English England, untrammeled
by foreign blood ties, ;unhampered BY
foreign titles. J. Il. =;
The German George who inherited
the English throne through his great
great-grandmother, daughter Of
James I of England, and who inner
tied his title Of Guelph from his great
great-grandfather, Frederick of Bo-
hernia, who started the Thirty Years,
War, could not speak word Of Eng
fish and really hated his new kingdom,
but he was the connecting link through
the Stuarts between the last of the
Guelphs and the first Of the Normans,
the Conqueror William. ;:
The English George is also the
founder of new royal line, and in the
House of Windsor he has restored to
the English people an English title
that recalls the glorious memories of
the Houses of Tudor, of Lancaster, of
York, and of the Plantagenets, when
the Henrys, the Edwards and the
"Good Queen Bess'' held court in the
Castle Of Windsor, and hunted and
strolled through the verdant acres Of
that oldest and most English of Brit
aims public places.
Under the existing conditions the
title Of Windsor, chosen by George v,
is perhaps the most popular act of his
reign.
For over 1000 years Windsor Castle
has been the abode of English royalty.
Edward the Confessor abode there;
William the Conqueror added to. it;
Edward built one of its towers and
Edward III created in it's halls the faA
nous Order Of the Garter.
Here it was that "Harry of Mon
mouth" disported with his friends;
where Edward of the White Rose, and
Henry Of the Red Rose alternately
lived during the famous Wars of the
Roses; here Shakespeare strolled and
wrote, and here Queen Bess received
the homages of Essex, and Leicester
| and Raleigh and Drake and all those
great ones of the golden age.
Here it was that Wolsey thrived
and bluff King Hal threw off the for
eign influences of Rome and Spain. In
fact, Windsor was the National center
Of Old England; the England Of the
roast beef age; the England of the
fearless sea rover, and the steady ar
cher; in fact, the Merry England, of
which Shakespeare and Jonson and
others have written; the England
| where HEnglishmen reigned before the
Stuart or the Hanoverian were foisted
| onto the throne.
But through all the changes Of
dynasties Windsor has remained the
abode of royalty. There lie the bones
Of not few, of the wearers Of the
| ermine, in the vaults beneath the chap
ell, and there where his Hanoverian an
| cestors lie it is fitting that George V
should bury the German titles and re-
vive the ancient g10ries Of the Eng
lish nation in the title George Of Wind
| sor. For there is the heart Of Eng
land; 1000 years Of her history;
monument Of her glory the proudest
name the King could adopt, English
Windsor."-T Thomas B. Blynn, in Phil
adelphia Record u
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