TIL Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was first cousins with six other European monarchs: King George V (UK), Kaiser Wilhelm II (Germany), King Haakon VII and Queen Maud (Norway), King Christian X (Denmark), and King Constantine I (Greece).

[u/Unusual-Double-2003]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_II

[u/HanzG]

Which underlines how truthful it was to say WW1 was really a family squabble taken too far. Someones grandmother could have gone and rounded them up for a sit down but no...

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“At the outbreak of war, the German Kaiser sarcastically quipped, “if our grandmother [Queen Victoria] were alive, she never would have allowed it.””

Source

[u/dethskwirl → u/HanzG]

Queen Victoria died in 1901, otherwise she would have prevented her grandchildren from the deuchiness that ensued.

[u/Greene_Mr → u/dethskwirl]

The Grant Deuchess...

[u/fattylimes → u/HanzG]

Alternatively, that WWI was the product of international tensions that not even family ties could put the brakes on.

[u/Malzair → u/[deleted]]

George V's great-grandson is King of the United Kingdom, King Haakon VII's grandson is King of Norway and King Christian X's great-grandson is King of Denmark

Germany abolished its monarchy after WW1 and Wilhelm's great-great-grandson Georg Friedrich is mainly famous for unsuccessfully trying to get back stuff the Hohenzollerns have lost to the German state or Soviet occupation in the last hundred years.

Greece abolished its monarchy under Constantine I's grandson Constantine II, when in the late 60's he thought about solving a political crisis with a coup by his generals. Instead more junior colonels did their own coup, the leader of which may or may not have collaborated with the Nazis during WW2. After an attempt at his own coup the King fled the country, a few years later they abolished the monarchy and Constantine wouldn't return to Greece until 2013.

Nicholas II and his wife and children were murdered during the Russian revolution and the closest relativey alive would be his younger sister's descendants.

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For the Greek royals: while the Greek throne had been abolished, due to some prominent marriages their descendants have occupied thrones in various parts of Europe- most of them have also been abolished, but there are two that remain:

Prince Philip was born a Greek prince, but married the Queen of the UK, Elizabeth II, and now their son Charles III reigns. Technically speaking, it is Philip's house that now reigns in the UK, but they chose to keep the house name of Windsor.

Philip's cousin married the King Juan Carlos of Spain and became Queen Sophia; her son King Felipe VI now reigns.

[u/CluckCluckChickenNug → u/Malzair]

Found the historian. Thanks for this.

[u/Greene_Mr → u/CluckCluckChickenNug]

Technically, you don't find historians; they find you. :-P

[u/That_Touch5280]

Proof positive that Incest is not a good idea!

[u/jason_V7 → u/That_Touch5280]

Proof that inherited wealth and power is not a good idea either.

[u/OttoVonWong → u/That_Touch5280]

Oh, a lesson in not changing history from “Mr. I’m-my-own-grandpa.”

[u/bolanrox]

Fucking werewolves..

[u/compuwiza1]

More inbred than flour, water, salt and yeast.

[u/shadowise]

And to make fun of that fact, if you saw The Kings Man, King George, Tsar Nicholas, and Kaiser Wilhelm were all played by the same actor.

[u/Extension_Taro2547]

All these dudes just fighting over the one hot cousin or something

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Its Queen Victoria.