Boris has come to meet Dr. Regina kala the Stuttgart archive which holds the
files on the Royal House of Wittenberg
frequency fowl 1862 hey boys could these files contain some reference to Caroline
that would prove she is prince Paul's daughter this report the file relates to
the years 18 28 to 29 when Caroline was 23 years old okay okay
Caroline easy on something something what's that same she came in the month
of August twisted God yes because she wanted to
talk to the King William so why she come to see him it's written here um she
tells him that she's natural daughter of Prince Paul and that she had left his
house where she lived with him with Prince Paul yeah
so she was perfectly accepted by him as his daughter I think so even though she
was not legitimate yeah but this wasn't instructed she lived with him in Paris
Paris she left him she says because he wants to to marry her to a man she
doesn't want to be my radius and that's why she left his house
right okay when she left him and she had no money so she went to stood guard to
her uncle uncle King and to ask him for some yeah yeah did you get any money yes
he did get yeah yeah she got a gift from the king great
this list says it's silver and she kept so much silver yes not the Pathet all
silver
was in the chest this is amazing what you say here about the silver but curse
the fall I left London my aunt birdie gave me a picture of a
defect on silver can you tell me what this said what does this mean say the
twelve silver spoons
yeah we got big coffee but another little part little pot we got little pot
yes and something for the sugar yes sugar definitely Thank You King thanks
to him my grandparents went to Austria very thoughtful so they didn't flop off
that if that was over they pulled off the burden book silver said if she was
the daughter of Paul then it follows that and who is the booster Paula son
off of King Frederick the first King okay that's good okay who is King
Frederick what do we know about them it's there's a first one Burger King and
if you want to know more about the family bottom bed of this time go to
Ludwigsburg that's a big castle movies of the castle yeah a proper one needs to
be reclaimed have a look at it oh you can check out the castle
well here we are back at the little family place in the country and
obviously they've gone ahead to tell the teller I'm coming back haven't they then
they know I'm coming to bring you bringing the luggage later and I guess
we're gonna install ourselves in a lot - los Ludwigsburg was the ancestral home
of the kings of württemberg hello it's now owned by the German state a stonking
gracious
Boris is being met by historian dr. raphael arts hi how do you do
Boris Johnson how do you do to meet you Rafael I want to know about the guys who
lived here because the theory is which were rapidly establishing is that my
great-great-great great-great grandfather is a guy called Frederick or
was a guy called Frederick yes yes yes who lived here he lived here indeed in
fact and his apartments are over here
Wow what
throne-room fantastic
I like it very much yes
at the heart of the palace lies the gallery of ancestors with portraits of
Boris's newfound ancestors The Dukes and Kings of Berg he's quite a hefty guys me
his wife of course who as you know is um is the mother of the prince for the
entire lineage is particularly interesting so she is of course you know
Augusta Caroline princess of Brunswick he rings a bell and the wonderful thing
is her mother yes her mother is Gus to Hannover yeah Princess Royal of Great
Britain and Ireland 1780 no key so how just you know they hang up really rattle
I'm completely over here and that is that's some who is there with her father
her father is Frederic nuit Hannover Prince of Wales in Britain well yes
there is only one principle this time he'll this time Wales England
I mean well Wales Britain Britain I think you want to be on Berkeley well
yeah and his father this course no let's say wait am i king george ii a Great
Britain Arden okay so I would say take this from the top here Raphael
he's my great-great-great-great great-great-great-great grandparents and
it was no sort of dinner suspected this longtime of course no matter how real I
am
more than surprises on where I'm stupid later to do by this it not only makes
you a descendant of George the second you are in fact related to all European
royal houses there are so the Romanovs you're related to the swedish royal
family the Dutch royal family the Prussians the Hohenzollerns yes but
there's a kind of kink in the whole in the whole thing went with the with the
element of a legitimacy that yes that's the unfortunate you are a genetic
relative but not in any legal or dynastic sense I think we'd have to I
think like as the lawyers take a very dim view nowadays of people who you know
discriminate against illegitimate well I wish you luck
well it's a big issue and if you ever want to sublet any of this place let me
know there you go were all thanks to granny bottle
well if you told me I was related to Georgia second I didn't be idle thought
your absentee crackers because in a nordian granny but in her wildest dreams
could have come up with with that one I would be I would have been terribly
proud to have been the descendant of the great huge fat belligerent looking
German king but I'm you know I can't hide it from
you you know even in this you know European even in our common European
home I'm particularly thrilled to find that I have some British ancestry as
well you know I guess I always thought of myself I always thought of our
families being basically bunch of Turkish Jewish mixed with this weird
granny butter Baron de Pepple stuff so I always felt a bit of a you know as I say
that part of the product of incomers productivity newcomers to Brittany say
it's totally bizarre surreal to be told that in fact my great times eight
grandfather is George a second but on the other hand don't neglect this point
that insofar as he is my great times eight grandparent he shares that
distinction with I calculate no fewer than 1000 and 23 other people there must
be several tens of thousands and some of you can work it out
of other people who are unknowingly in the same situation as me basically
nothing's mad all these very very bizarre
but actually it turns out the granny was right he turns her granny was right and
we were wrong to steal course there are various other castles I have to capture
in the course of you know my general overing up of the friends of Europe is
it happy the good start
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