The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-10-04
GEORGEOF WINDSOR
British Monarch the Founder Of
New Royal Line.
Reasons for Abolishing Ancient Ger
man Patronymic of Guelph
Act Enthusiastically Acclaimed
Throughout the Realm.

The shadow Of German nationality
40 longer obscures the light of the
English nation, and the Fifth George
Of the Hanoverian line of British rul-
srs has buried the ancient German
patronymic of his ancestors, Guelph"
In the vaults of the English wind
sor."
Just about two centuries ago the
German George assembled the throne
Of England and the Stuarts were sup
planted by the Guelphs. OF all the
dive Georges of that house the present
holder of the title is the most English
Of them all. True, his father, Edward
VII, proved a good king, and a thor
50ugh Englishman, and his grandmoth-
er, Victoria, had grand and success
ful reign, and through her mother she
Inherited her adopted title of the
House of SaXe-Voburg, of which fam
dy 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 a wave of disgust to
sweep over England that the king him
self has unhesitatingly abandoned ev-
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.
The German George who inherited
the English throne through his great
gre1t-grandmother, daughter OF
James of England, and who inher-
tied his title of Guelph from his great
great-grandfather, Frederick Of b.
hernia, who started the Thirty Years
War, could not speak word of Eng
fish and really hated ibis new kingdom,
but he was the connecting link through
the Stuarts between the last Of the
Guelphs and the first of the Nornans,
the Conqueror William.
The English George is also the
founder of new royal line and in the
House Of Windsor he has restored tt
the English people an English title
that recalls tho, 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 its halls the ia
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 Englishmen 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 a few Of the wearers of the
ermine, in the vaults beneath the chap
ell, and there where his Hanoverian an
cestors lie 1t is fitting that George V
should bury the German titles and re-
vive the ancient glories 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. Thomas b. Blynn, in Phil
adelphia Record.