From: Daut Dauti
On June 25, 1807, in a kind of improvised house of wood and planks on the river Tisza, the French emperor, Napoleon, and the Russian emperor, Alexander I, met. The meeting of these two enemies was held in the French language. It was noted there that the French of the Russian tsar was excellent, while that of the French emperor was poor. This was the moment when Napoleon was embarrassed. Quite a surprise, isn't it? The Russian speaks better French than French, we would say. But these things should be looked at differently.
Do you know why?
Because Napoleon was of ordinary Italian origin from Corsica, while Alexander I was an aristocrat by foundation and in his court, that is, the Russian Tsar, French was the official language. In fact, most of the Russian royal family never knew or even tried to speak Russian. This situation changed after 1812 when Russian began to be officialized and this was done as a (nationalist) reaction to the French invasion led by Napoleon. Regardless of the origin and common language (French) of the two emperors, they would kill each other: the first in the name of France, and the second in the name of Russia. In fact, Napoleon was not even French, as Puritan nationalism theory requires, but he entered history as the patriot and hero of France.
In the XI-XIV centuries, French was the official language in England because the monarchy fell into the hands of the Norman invaders. The royal family, then English and later British, did not even bother to speak English. Later the language of the British royal palace became German. This is because the origin of the British royal family was and is still German today.
Queen Victoria (1819-1901), the most successful monarch in British history, was the one who banned the German language from being spoken in the palace. But even when she spoke English, it was noticeable that her speech was dominated by a German accent. As for her husband, Prince Albert, who was born and raised in Germany, let's not talk. His English was like that of a 'foreigner'. It was only in 1917 that the British royal family banned the German names and titles they had carried until then. So, from this year the British royal family has become completely British. This change occurred because of the fear of nationalism that began to grow in Britain and throughout Europe at the time of the First World War.
Since the 15th century, the ruler of the Ottoman Empire, i.e. the sultan, has been required by law to have been born of a European mother. This action was done because within the empire no families of the Khrushchev could be born that could claim the throne and destabilize the country in the event of a change of monarch. So, the Ottoman rulers were born from women who were Ukrainian, Greek, Albanian, Serbian, Italian, French, Polish, Russian and in one case even English. The sultans were completely European and spoke several languages, but they all followed the Ottoman policy as they were educated in this spirit. The official language of the Ottoman palace was Ottoman, which was not like the Turkish spoken by ordinary people.
So, it was irrelevant what language the royal families spoke and what family the ruler came from if the origin was aristocratic - noble. What mattered was how the people spoke and that the existing interest of that people was protected by the monarchy that ruled. And, the interests of the peoples of that time, along with their friendships or enmities, were not what they are today.
The case of Skenderbeu should be seen and treated in the same way. It is completely irrelevant whether he spoke Albanian or not. It is also irrelevant whether he has Serbian or other parentage. It is important that Skenderbeu, like all other monarchs, has declared that he belongs to that people, i.e. the Albanians, and that being their ruler, he has implemented their interests. We should not expect more from Skenderbeu today.
Prince Wiedi should be treated the same. He was German, but he declared himself the monarch of the Albanians, who accepted him very willingly. In fact, if the circumstances had developed differently, Wiedi would surely turn out to be the greatest patriot that Albanians have ever had.
The point here is that if we don't consider these things, we can't debate this topic. Therefore, these days this topic has become controversial because it is dominated by ignorance and a 'patriotism' which thinks that in the Middle Ages things were as they are today. However, one does not look at the Middle Ages or the recent past with glasses that have the nationalist colored glasses of the century. XXI. /Telegraph/
