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Depends on how you want to analyse the question.
The House of Windsor is a fiction created during George V's reign, namely during WW1.
Hannoverian Victoria married Wettin prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Their elder son, Edward VII, who reigned as Edward of SCG, married Alexandra of Denmark.
The Royal House of Denmark is a branch of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg house, itself, a branch of the Oldenburg house.
Sounds pretty german, doesn´t it ?
Their son, G.V married Mary of Teck, a member of a junior branch of the house of Wurttemberg.
Shouldn't there have not been a war, the dynasty might remain of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Followed G. VI, who indeed married the "scottish lass" Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
Then came Elizabeth II, who married Philip of Greece and Denmark, from the S-H-S-Glucksburg i.e. an Oldenburg again.
Philip's parents were of pretty german ascendance too, Andrew of Greece and Alice of Battenberg (from the house of Hesse-Darmstadt)
So, you could say that Charles III has 3/4 of germanesque blood and 1/4 of scottish blood.
Which will probably irritate the british who consider the BRF is ... british .
Lol...it's been a long standing joke in the UK that the royal family are "really Germans" because of their ancestry. The late Queen Elizabeth II was the first British monarch of at least partly British blood (through her mother) since Queen Anne three centuries earlier.
Then again, all reigning royal families in Europe, bar the Spanish Borbons, are of mostly German ancestry and blood. However I think that they are all now regarded as true natives of their respective realms.
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