The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1918-03-21
GEORGEOF WINDSOR
British Monarch the Founder of
New Royal Line.
Reasons for Abolishing Ancient Ger
man Patronymie of "GueIph"-
Act Enthusiastically Acclaimed
Throughout the Realm.

The shadow of 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 I 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 a thor
ough Englishman, and his grandmoth-
er, Victoria, had grand and success
full reign, and through her mother she
inherited her adopted title of the
House of SaxeVoburg, 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 unhesitatingly 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
by foreign blood ties, unhampered by
foreign titles.
The German George who inherited
the English throne through his great
great-grandmother, daughter OF
James | of England, and who inner
tied his title of Guelph from his great
great-grandfather, Frederick of b.
hernia, who started the Thirty Years
War, could not speak a word of Eng
fish and really hated his new kingdom.
The English George is also the
founder Of new royal line, and in the
House of Windsor he hassrestored 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
~strolled through the verdant acres of
that oldest and most English of Brit
aims public places.
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 I built one Of it's towers and
Edward III created in it's halls the ia
nous Order of the Garter.
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
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 to 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 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