son of sophia was the first king under the new rules then his son
george 2 to george 3 and even though he lost america and his mind never fear the
rules are here so the crown continued to calmly descend the family tree going to
hey guys welcome to foreign reacts we're going to be touching history today
uh this one is going to be a brief history of the royal family so i don't know anything
about the royal family except that i watched a video this morning that said the queen is dead
i know she had covet recently but they said she's dead but i think it's fake news it was a
new source that breaks rumors and um he's stayed in the queen that i hope she's not
and uh i wish her uh strong health and uh yeah i wish everything is okay but y'all can let me
know uh any rumors that is uh circulated in the internet because uh yeah let's get right into this
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video today brief history of the royal family guys let's character yeah let's get right into it
can't talk 1066 the start of the royal family on these fair isles well there were kings and
many countries before that and druids before that and pangaea before that but we have to
start somewhere and a millennia ago is plenty far if that leaves out etheldrid the unready
so it goes william the conqueror conquered in the norman conquest norman here being code for
french because it's the olden days people had lots of kids but to keep things simple this
family tree is going to leave out many of them on each branch because not every child matters
so william had three kids we care about william two henry one and adela if you've seen the video
about royal succession click here if you haven't you'll know that formal rules for passing on the
crown will get established but for now it's a free-for-all home team advantage to the eldest
son but never forget bigger army diplomacy upon william the conqueror's death william ii became
king william two didn't marry and on a bro's day out with henry died in a hunting accident that
gave henry one the crown henry one had at least 26 children of which only two were 100 legit he
declared his daughter would rule next after his son died in a shipwreck and swore his knights
to honor empress matilda by crossing their hearts hoping to die sticking a needle in their eye but
when henry one died while matilda was in france many ignored this while her cousin stephen raced
to westminster using faster army diplomacy to get coronated first empress matilda did eventually
return and start a decades-long civil war that was pretty much a stalemate because turtling
in the 1100s was an effective rts tactic while she did rule part of the island as matilda never
had an official coronation her monarch status is disputed now as steven's children were either dead
disinterested or a nun his crown went to his nephew henry ii who had four sons henry the young
richard the lionheart king john and jeff guess who died before his turn henry ii saw the history
thus far of conquering assassination maybe your superpatient traditional war and decided waiting
until after the death of the current king before sorting out the next king didn't work so henry ii
would change the system and crown henry the young co-king with him invoking the rule of two one
is none two is one if it's important you need a backup it was a good plan for stability helped by
the young king's popularity but unfortunately the apprentice rebelled against the master rallying
his brothers which resulted in another civil war of disputed monarchs during which henry the young
died of dysentery henry the elder died of fever and richard 1 took the crown after richard came
john and four eldest son successions in a row jon to henry 3 insert magna carter here to edward 1
long shanks to edward ii to edward iii actually ed 2 was overthrown by isabel of france aka
the she-wolf of france aka his wife after deposing her husband she acted as regent for their son
every one of these arrows glosses over a bit of complexity edward iii had five sons edward the
black prince lionel john edmund and thomas none of which would wear the crown when edward iii died
his throne would have gone to the black prince but he was dead at the time so the crown went to his
boringly named son richard now the second there's a bunch of drama llama stuff around richard ii
which your english teacher might force you to read about but spoiler alert history's ending
is always the same bigger army diplomacy this time from henry iv who gets the crown and richard too
gets starvation in captivity another henry before we get to the war of the roses a war that strikes
terror and boredom in the minds of students of history the nation over who have to deal with this
family tree simplified to explain why everyone was angry but the shortest version ever is
edward three's great great grandsons duked it out even though one of them was dead for part
of the fight but we can't get into that now so henry six to edward four to henry six to
edward for the end edward four on his deathbed left his crown to his son but being 12 he needed
bro no no no no and no there is no way the amount of people that
got involved in this in a matter of three minutes
wow wow wow what i remember one point in my life when i was actually interested in
history when i was younger but i never really cared for a certain history it was a particular
type of history that i cared for right and um i suddenly have this um eager to learn
a lot of these things about other countries and and um empires and all of that and ah wow complex
protection so richard his bestest uncle in the world promised to take super good care
of him edward v then promptly disappeared under suspicious circumstances that left
richard to become richard iii but he didn't stay king for long because edward three's
great-great-great-great-grandson henry vii took the crown put a ring on elizabeth of york to lock
down that royal legitimacy and then sired henry viii splitter of churches and ladies henry viii
thought it was high time to formalize the rules of inheritance so he wrote them out in his will
basically saying oldest boys first girls only if there aren't any boys and parliament approved the
rules which should have made everything neat and tidy but we're about to enter the really messy
time because henry's son lived just long enough to screw it up inheriting the throne at nine there
was of course a scheming protectorate running things yet he still declared at 15 that his
father's rules were dumb and his sisters were dumb and that his first cousin once removed lady jane
grey should be the next monarch instead then he died and lady jane grey became queen at sweet 16.
sort of in a disputed status way for nine days until beheaded by mary the first really truly
officially nobody doubts a queen mary didn't have any kids and pass the crown to elizabeth the first
who became the second queen in a row to also not have children but no problem because lady jane
grey was next in oh right now this is the point at which we acknowledge scotland exists they'd
been doing their own royal thing which for our purposes joins the english branch where edward
iii's great granddaughter married into it in the 1400s and then goes james james james james james
mary queen of scots james bringing us back to the 1600s henry viii's sister importantly also married
into this line of the family giving it english legitimacy points in the eyes of the english
parliament which asked to borrow scotland's james making him king of two countries with two numbers
in his name depending on where you're counting from james had a son charles 1 and you might
think this unification of the monarchs means the very messy time is over but no because cromwell
gromwell didn't like kings and beheaded charles one declaring no royals no longer making himself
the lord protector which was in no way like a king even though he was in charge and it
was a hereditary office passed to his son but the cromwells didn't last mainly because his son was a
fancy country squire who didn't follow rule zero keep the army happy giving charles's son charles
ii the ability to re-establish the monarchy charles ii had lots of children all of which were
illegitimate leaving his brother james two next in line but james 2 was catholic and ever since
henry split the church catholics had terrible approval ratings but conveniently he had nice
protestant daughters one married to a dutch prince who by the nature of these things was the grandson
of charles one bonus english legitimacy points plus who doesn't like the dutch with james so
unpopular and william and mary so popular the army and nobles pretty much invited the royal couple to
invade and james ii fled william and mary ruled as co-monarchs but without children the crown went
to queen anne who also didn't produce any heirs though not from lack of effort she was pregnant
17 times again finding themselves with a no royals no longer situation parliament whoa whoa
whoa this video man this video doesn't get any better than this 17 times talk
about women back then and talk about men back then i mean good lord there's no woman who is
possibly able to have 17 children right now none the way how we eat the health uh lifestyle of no
wow this video is really complicated oh my and he simplified it decided it
was really truly seriously the time to sort out the rules of inheritance
to avoid pretenders from every branch of this messy tree fighting over the crown parliament
did a royal reboot to clear the cruft defining sofia of hanover the granddaughter of james dual
numbers to be the new starting point for all claims to the crown these rules finally stuck
thus ending the very messy time george one son of sophia was the first king under the
new rules then his son george 2 to george 3 and even though he lost america and his mind
never fear the rules are here so the crown continued to calmly descend the family tree
even though he lost america never fear the cruiser
we are 17 now we in the 17th right now
oh this part is actually making a lot of sense this part actually you know not too bad this
part i can actually you know son of sophia was the first king under the new rules then his son george
2 to george 3 and even though he lost america and his mind never fear the rules are here so the
crown continued to calmly descend the family tree going to george iv who didn't have any surviving
children to william iv who had 10 children all illegitimate then passing through his dead younger
brother to queen victoria who started her reign in 1837 and made it to just over the finishing line
of the 20th century which is a doubly impressively long time given the state of medical technology
then after the end of her age the crown went to her son edward 7 to george 5 to edward viii who
finally breaks up this neat and tidy and somewhat boring line of succession by committing a scandal
marrying a commoner an american commoner an american commoner divorcee twice over
actually the divorces were a real problem and weren't compatible with the monarch's role as head
of state and also the church of england in the 1930s edward abdicated to his brother george vi
who was reluctant to take the crown and then had to oversee world war ii and the subsequent breakup
of the british empire which drained the reluctant king's health who died at 56 leaving the crown to
elizabeth ii in 1952 at the age of 25. seven years older than victoria her great-great-grandmother
was on her coronation day but in early september 2015 elizabeth became the longest reigning queen
in not just british history but world history from elizabeth ii the crown continues on to charles the
longest heir apparent in british history to his son william to his son george and that is a brief
history of the royal family wow brief that was the most complicated thing i've ever heard in my life
but it was really funny when it when it got to the point where everything was smoothing out it
was really funny it was really entertaining i got i captured enough right i captured enough this was
practically a very entertaining video it's like practically one of the most entertaining videos
i've ever done in my opinion for myself right it was really entertaining because i actually
was so confused uh back before it touched uh the 17th uh century i was really confused
when it touched the uh where it straightened it out you know where the rules were there no longer
will you have a lot of bunch of people just coming in it made a lot more sense but either ways guys
that's gonna be it i'm out of here guys i hope you guys enjoyed like and subscribe man peace