Brief History of the Royal Family
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🗓️ 9 September 2015
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Summary
The Royal Family from 1066 until today.
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Dr. Carolyn Harris, University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, author of "Magna Carta and Its Gifts to Canada" http://www.amazon.com/Magna-Carta-Its-Gifts-Canada-ebook/dp/B00O4CV18K and "Queenship and Revolution in Early Modern Europe"
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Dr. Arianne Chernock, Boston University (http://www.bu.edu/history/faculty/arianne-chernock/)
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Dr. Martin Menke, Rivier University (http://www.rivier.edu/acadbio.aspx?menu=70&id=453)
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| 0:00.0 | 1066, the start of the royal family on these fair aisles. |
| 0:03.7 | Well, there were kings and many countries before that, and druids before that, and |
| 0:07.6 | Pangea before that, but we have to start somewhere, and a millennia ago is plenty far. |
| 0:11.7 | If that leaves out Ethelred the Unready, so it goes. |
| 0:14.4 | 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 |
| 0:22.8 | family tree is going to leave out many of them on each branch because not every child |
| 0:27.7 | matters. |
| 0:28.7 | So William had three kids we care about, William 2, Henry 1, and Adela. |
| 0:32.3 | If you've seen the video about Royal Succession, click here if you haven't, you'll know that |
| 0:35.6 | formal rules for passing on the Crown will get established. |
| 0:38.3 | But for now, it's a free-for-all home team advantage to the eldest son, but never forget, bigger army diplomacy. |
| 0:44.3 | Upon William the Conqueror's death, William II became king. William II didn't marry, and on a bros day out with Henry, died in a hunting accident that gave Henry won the crown. Henry 1 had at least 26 children, of which only two were 100% legit. |
| 0:56.5 | 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. |
| 1:03.6 | But when Henry 1 died while Matilda was in France, many ignored this while her cousin, Stephen, raced to to Westminster using faster army diplomacy to get |
| 1:10.9 | coronated first. |
| 1:12.3 | Empress Matilda did eventually return and start a decades-long civil war that was pretty |
| 1:15.8 | much a stalemate because turtling in the 1100s was an effective RTS tactic. |
| 1:19.7 | While she did rule part of the island, as Matilda never had an official coronation, her |
| 1:23.1 | monarchal status is disputed. |
| 1:24.8 | Now as Stephen's children were either dead, disinterested, or a nun, |
| 1:27.8 | his crown went to his nephew, Henry II, who had four sons, Henry the Young, Richard the |
| 1:32.5 | Lionheart, King John, and Jeff. Guess who died before his turn? Henry II saw the history thus |
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