The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-09-20
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.

throughout the Realm.
The shadow Of a German nationality
no longer Obscures the light of the
English nation, and the Fifth George
of the Hanoverian line of British rul-
ers 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
five 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 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
lily 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 unhesltatingly abandoned ev-
| cry claim to the ancient pedigree of
| his German ancestors and, like his
| great ancestor Edward I, has declared
for an English England, untrammeled
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foreign titles.
The German George who inherited
the English throne through his great
| at-grandmother, daughter OF
James | of England. and who lnher-
tied his title Of Guelph from his great
great-grandfather Frederick of Bo-
hemia who started the Thirty Years
War, could not speak a word of Eng
fish and really hated his new kingdom.
hut 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 n 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 900 years Windsor Castle
has been the abode Of English royalty.
Edward the CoufeSSor abode there
William the Conqueror added to it;
Edward ! built one Of its towers and
Edward III created in it's halls the fa-
nous order of the Garter
Here it was that Harry of Mon
mouth" disported with his friends;
whore 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 1t was that Wolsey thrived
and bluif King Hal threw off the for
elgn influences of Rome and Spain In
fact, Windsor was the National center
of Old England; the England of the
r0nst 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 n few of the wearers of the
ermlne, in the vaults beneath the chap
ell, and there where his HanOverian an
cestors lie IL 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; a
monument Of her glory; the proudesc
name the King could adopt, English
windsor. Thomas B, Blynn, In Phil
adelphla Record.