When Britain's King visited, Germany fondly recalled he's 'half German'

The very Teutonic British King. Photo: Mark Tantrum. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

“ How German are the British royals? “ Germany’s public broadcaster funded Deutsche Welle (DW) asked the day before King Charles III set off on the first state visit of his reign.

Very, it concluded, reprising an article first published in October soon after Charles took the throne.

The King “has a bloodline made up of roughly half German ancestors”, it said, and Prince Harry’s wife Meghan “is said to have German ancestors “.

And the piece de resistance of the “special relationship” was spelled out as follows: Should nearly 5,000 people in the royal line of succession die, the British crown will go to German hospital “therapist Karin Vogel, who lives in Rostock, [and] is a descendant of Sophia of Hanover, the mother of King George I, the first British king from Germany”.

It’s true that for all Britain’s aspirations to the so-called “special relationsh…