July 17, 1917 –
Britain’s King George V issues a royal proclamation changing his family’s surname from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor.
Thus, everyone is fooled into believing that a bunch of inbred Germans are really English. Which is convenient, because England just so happens to be at war with the other side of the family, Germany.
Speaking of George’s cousin, Russian Czar Nicholas II was murdered with his family and servants by the Bolsheviks at Yekaterinburg on this date in 1918 (they were murdered in the middle of the night on the 17th of July.) It’s too bad his cousin, George V was more concerned with changing his Germanic surname then saving his cousin.
This included his daughter Anastasia, who may not actually have been killed with the rest of them but was almost certainly killed along with the rest of them despite persistent rumors to the contrary–even in the face of almost insurmountable evidence suggesting otherwise (except when interpreted differently). Even if she wasn’t dead then, she’s certainly dead now. This has been scientifically proven by scientists who ought to know.
And so it goes
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