Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Kupfuura: Musi wa4 Nyamavhuvhu 1914 Mambo akanyora mubhuku rake rezuva, "Ndakaita kanzuru na10.45 kuti ndizivise hondo neGermany. Injodzi inotyisa asi haisi mhosva yedu.... Kana Mwari achida, nokukurumidza zvingaguma". Kubva muna 1914 kusvika muna 1918, Britain nehama dzayo dzairwisana neCentral Powers, yaitungamirirwa noUmambo hweGermany. Kaiser Wilhelm II weGermany, uyo nokuda kwavanhu veBritain akauya kuzoratidzira kutyisa kwose kwehondo, akanga ari hama yokutanga yaMambo. Sekuru vababa vamambo vaiva Muchinda Albert weSaxe-Coburg neGotha; nokudaro, Mambo nevana vake vakatakura mazita ekuti Muchinda uye Mambokadzi weSaxe-Coburg neGotha uye Duke uye Duchess weSaxony. Mambokadzi Mary, kunyange zvazvo aiva muBritain saamai vake, aiva mwanasikana waDuke weTeck, muzukuru weDuke weWürttemberg wokuGermany. Mambo aiva nehama dzokuroora nevanun'una vaiva vanhu vokuBritain asi vaiva nemazita echiGermany akadai saDuke uye Duchess of Teck, Prince uye Princess weBattenberg, uye Prince uye Princess weSchleswig-Holstein. Apo H. G. Wells akanyora pamusoro peBritain "dare risingazivikanwi uye risingafadzi", George akapindura nenzira yakakurumbira kuti: "Ini ndinogona kunge ndisingafadzi, asi ndichatukwa kana ndiri mutorwa". Pana 17 July 1917, George akagutsa manzwiro eBritain emarudzi kupfurikidza nokubudisa chiziviso choumambo chakachinja zita reimba youmambo yeBritain kubva kuimba yeGermany inonzwika yeSaxe-Coburg neGotha kuenda kuImba yeWindsor. Iye nehama dzake dzose dzeBritain vakasiya mazita avo echiGermany nemaitiro avo, uye vakagamuchira mazita emhuri anonzwika seBritain. George akabhadhara hama dzake dzechirume nokuita kuti dzive shamwari dzake dzeBritain. Muzukuru wake, Prince Louis weBattenberg, uyo pakutanga kwehondo akanga amanikidzwa kusiya basa saFirst Sea Lord kuburikidza nemanzwiro ekurwisa chiGerman, akava Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess weMilford Haven, apo hanzvadzi dzaMambokadzi Mary dzakava Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess weCambridge, naAlexander Cambridge, 1st Earl weAthlone.  Mubvunzo: Britain yakarwisana naani kubva muna 1914 kusvika muna 1918?
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