THE HOUSE OF HANOVER & THE HOUSE OF SAXE-COBURG AND GOTHA—From England to Uganda
Have you ever asked the question “Why is Idi Amin labeled as a “British Prince” and why was he called “The Last King of Scotland?” The House of Hanover, whose members are known as Hanoverians, is a German royal house that ruled Hanover, Great Britain, and Ireland at various times during the 17th through 20th centuries...
George I became the first Hanoverian monarch of Great Britain and Ireland in 1714... At Victoria's death in 1901, the throne of the United Kingdom passed to her eldest son Edward VII, a member of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha... In 1837, the personal union of the thrones of the United Kingdom and Hanover ended with the death of William IV... Succession to the Hanoverian throne was regulated by semi-Salic law (agnatic-cognatic), which gave priority to all male lines before female lines, so that it passed not to Queen Victoria but to her uncle, Ernest Augustus... When Queen Victoria, the last British monarch provided by the House of Hanover, died, her son and heir Edward VII became the first British Monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Edward taking his family name from that of his father, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha...
The Age of Revolution is the period from approximately 1774 to 1849 in which a number of significant revolutionary movements occurred in most of Europe... The period is noted for the change from absolutist monarchies (so called black European rulership) to representative governments with a written constitution, and the creation of nation states... The revolutions were essentially bourgeois revolutions and democratic and liberal in nature, with the aim of removing the old so called black monarchical structures and creating independent nation-states The outbreak of the revolutions in Europe provided the opportunity for liberals to expel so called black European monarchs from their respective countries... The Scramble for Africa, also called the Partition of Africa or the Conquest of Africa, was the invasion, occupation, division, and colonisation of African territory by so called black European powers during a short period known to historians as the New Imperialism (between 1881 and 1914) New Imperialism characterizes a period of colonial expansion by Western so called black European powers, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries... The period featured an unprecedented pursuit of overseas territorial acquisitions by so called black European monarchs facing exile in their respective countries... The Protectorate of Uganda was a protectorate of the British Empire from 1894 to 1962... In 1893 the Imperial British East Africa Company transferred its administration rights of territory consisting mainly of the Kingdom of Buganda to the British Government... In 1894 the Uganda Protectorate was established, and the territory was extended beyond the borders of Buganda to an area that roughly corresponds to that of present-day Uganda...
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