The Plantagenets | The Royal Family

If you want to see the full complexity, here is the family tree

https://www.britroyals.com/royaltree.asp

showing how Queen Elizabeth can trace her ancestry through most of the previous monarchs of Britain and England, to Alfred the Great.

The House of Tudor was started by Henry Tudor, who was the great-great-great-grandson of King Edward III on his mother's side. So, he's related to the Plantagenet kings of England.

After the Wars of the Roses between the House of Lancaster and the House of York, who both claimed to be legitimate heirs to the throne, Henry Tudor was the last man standing (so to speak). He was of the Lancasters; he married a daughter of the House of York, and stopped the wars that way. He then declared himself King Henry VII, of the House of Tudor. The symbol of the new house was the Tudor Rose, which combined the red rose of Lancaster with the white rose of York. And peace ruled over the land …ish.

The House of Windsor is actually the House of Hanover renamed. Twice.

When Queen Anne of the House of Stuart died in 1714, the British Parliament (which now had the power to choose the monarch) skipped over her 50 nearest relatives – all Catholics (because the British hated Catholics – long story) – to give the British throne to her far-distant Protestant cousin, Georg of Hanover, who became King George I of the House of Hanover. Georg was a great-grandson of King James I of England.

King George's great-great-great-granddaughter was Queen Victoria - still of the House of Hanover. However, she married a German prince of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and thus became a Saxe-Coburg-Gotha herself, as did their children and grandchildren.

When Victoria's grandson, King George V of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, was on the British throne, his British subjects went to war with his German cousins in a little conflict known as the Great War. Deciding that discretion was the better part of keeping his head and throne valour, he changed the very German name of his house to something nice and British and safe: Windsor (after Windsor Castle).

So, yes, the House of Windsor is descended from the House of Tudor and the House of Plantagenet - through one of Henry VII's daughters, who married a Scottish king and whose great-grandson was King James I of England (at the same time that he was King James VI of Scotland), then through James' great-grandson Georg of Hanover (King George I), who is Queen Elizabeth II's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. There are probably also other lines of descent over the centuries and generations, but these are the official ones through which the monarchy traces its claim to the throne.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/17wzda/is_the_house_of_windsor_related_to_the_house_of/

moar on "houses" here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/16i7z3/comment/c7wcu6w/

>>18751856

>can not compete for like 2-3 years

non-compete should just mean he can't get paid to do broadcasts.

Those suggesting he could run for office, could be on to something. As a candidate he'd have a platform to message from.

We need him participating in this Information War. Hope he'll be starting a Truth Social account?

>>18751710

>Blackrock Owns 15.1% of the Fox Corporation

>>18751856

>Sean H and Laura I were pumping the meatball yesterday.

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>>18751859

The Plantagenets

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The period also saw the development of new social institutions and a distinctive English culture. Parliament emerged and grew, while the judicial reforms begun in the reign of Henry II were continued and completed by Edward I.

Culture began to flourish. Three Plantagenet kings were patrons of Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English poetry. During the early part of the period, the architectural style of the Normans gave way to the Gothic, with surviving examples including Salisbury Cathedral. Westminster Abbey was rebuilt and the majority of English cathedrals remodelled. Franciscan and Dominican orders began to be established in England, while the universities of Oxford and Cambridge had their origins in this period.

Amidst the order of learning and art, however, were disturbing new phenomena. The outbreak of Bubonic plague or the 'Black Death' served to undermine military campaigns and cause huge social turbulence, killing half the country's population. …

https://www.royal.uk/plantagenets

The Heritage Foundation decided to make public:

FULL SPEECH - Tucker Carlson at #Heritage50

Tucker Carlson delivers an address and sits down for a Q&A session with Heritage president Kevin Roberts — his last public address of the sort before his departure from Fox News.

Apr 25, 2023 5 hours ago 36:44

https://youtu.be/N32UPXGChgo

Before Tucker Carlson was ousted from Fox, his father triggered an S.F. libel scandal

Tucker Carlson made unexpected news today — ousted by Fox News, just days after the conservative cable station settled a defamation suit filed by Dominion Voting Systems for a reported $787.5 million.

If he’s looking for support, perhaps the former host of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” can lean on his father, a journalist who was enmeshed in his own politics-related libel nightmare more than 50 years ago, repeatedly making the front page of The San Francisco Chronicle.

Tucker McNear Carlson was born in San Francisco on May 16, 1969, at Children’s Hospital to his journalist father Dick Carlson and socialite mother Linda Lombardi. His christening months later at Trinity Episcopal Church — attended by “His Girl Friday” and “Gypsy” star Rosalind Russell — merited nine paragraphs on The Chronicle society pages.

But at the same time, his father was making much bigger news. In September 1969, Dick Carlson co-wrote a Look Magazine article titled “The Web That Links San Francisco’s Mayor Joe Alioto and the Mafia.”

Among other things, the cover story by Carlson and his co-writer Lance Brisson claimed Alioto was “enmeshed in a web of alliances with at least six leaders of the Cosa Nostra” and that his “channels of communication with the Cosa Nostra remain open.”

While Dick Carlson was a 28-year-old freelance writer at the time, and Tucker Carlson is one of the most influential figures in American media, there are some eerie parallels: Look Magazine was accused of running a sensational article to save itself from financial losses, similar to some of Dominion’s accusations against Fox News.

At the center of the earlier case, Alioto suggested Carlson and Brisson’s article was motivated by racism and politics; Alioto’s grandfather was a Sicilian immigrant, and he said the story perpetuated stereotypes about Italians.

The Chronicle reported on Sept. 12, 1969, that Alioto showed up for “the largest press conference of his career,” and categorically denied any mob ties. He announced a $12.5 million lawsuit against the owners of Look Magazine, claiming the hit piece was published to stall his political career. He had been rumored as a running mate for Democratic presidential hopeful Hubert Humphrey.

Alioto also accused the Look team of leaking an advance issue to then-governor Ronald Reagan, whose staff passed out copies to the local media.

Look and Carlson initially defended their reporting, but it reportedly fell apart in trials and depositions. Law enforcement sources contradicted some key details, and when Carlson was questioned on the witness stand as to why the Mafia would meet at a family restaurant that didn’t serve alcohol, the reporter testified most mafioso had “a puritanical streak” and “lead quiet home lives.”

While Dominion settled with Fox News last week moments before the trial started, Alioto did not. The case continued for 7½ years, with two trials ending with hung juries and one ending with the jury unable to decide on the “actual malice” question.

The fourth trial, in 1977, was decided by federal judge William W. Schwarzer, who declared “by clear and convincing evidence that (Look) published the defamatory statements contained in the article with actual malice,” and awarded Alioto $350,000 in damages.

By that time, Dick Carlson and his family had moved to San Diego. The elder Carlson later became director of Voice of America, and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

“We beat the scoundrels,” Alioto said in a 1977 statement. “How sweet it is.”

https://www.sfchronicle.com/vault/article/tucker-carlson-s-father-ties-s-f-libel-scandal-17915850.php