Soccer fans ..

Yep, the British royal family is all a bunch of Germans. Queen Victoria was better at German than English, and Mountbatten is just the anglicized name for Battenberg.

The Oranjes are much the same: Willem I was born in Dillenburg and raised in Mainz, Beatrix’s husband, father and grandfather were all German.

I guess you can say that two of the remaining royal families in Europe are more German than anything else. :smiley:

How dare you imply that HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and consort to the British Queen, is German.
Everybody knows he’s Greek.

Nope, us Krauts are interested in football too. It’s one of the things we are very good at. In the immortal words of Gary Lineker:

Also, I’m pretty sure footballisplayedwithyourfeet (de groeten!) is Dutch, and they were never been subject to British rule either. In fact, that was also the other way around. See William of Orange.

Yeah, from the famous Greek noble families of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (on his father’s side) and Battenberg-Hessen (on his mother’s side). Heck, he’s more Greek than Anthony Quinn! :smiley: