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[–]Wrangel 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The Queen did an excellent job given her circumstances. Nearly every monarchy in Europe is gone, and the British one was hanging by a thread. She managed to save the monarchy and even popularize it during some of the toughest times for monarchy in history. That she once danced with a leader of another country while trying to retain an anticommunist influence over the country is ridiculous to stretch into something else.

The people who blame her for not seizing power and establishing the fourth riech need to realize how laughably unlikely that would have been to succeed.

[–]Nombre27 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

George V helped with toppling other European monarchies. WW1 was unnecessary and resulted in the abdication of Wilhelm and the end of the Habsburg monarchy as well as the massacre of his cousin Nicholas by communist scum.

Reading more on it, WW1 led to numerous abdications and the end of many German monarchies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monarchs_who_abdicated#:~:text=Ernest%20Augustus%20%C2%A0Duchy%20of%20Brunswick%20Duke%20of,of%20W%C3%BCrttemberg%2030%20November%201918%20Monarchy%20abolished

20 in Germany alone.