“So the answer to the question ‘how German is the Royal family’ is: sehr (very),” said The Telegraph, with the King’s bloodline “made up of roughly half German ancestors”.

Wainwright's German-born grandparents left the country separately in the 1930s, fleeing Nazi persecution. They met in the United States and raised a family, rarely speaking of their German past.

A son killed his father in a hammer attack after family tree research suggested his dad may have had German ancestors, a jury has heard. Colin Neil, 52, was suffering from psychosis caused by ...