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James I, King of England & Ireland [1603-1625], King of Scots [as James VI, 1567-1625] (1566-1625) m: 1589 Anna of Denmark (1574-1619)
Henry Frideric, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall & Rothesay (1594-1612)
Elizabeth II, Queen of England & Ireland [from 1625], Queen...
Let's phrase this hypothetical Anglo-Swedish involvement another way. Sweden only got involved in 1630- which is significantly beyond the POD of Charles dying en route back from Spain (in 1623/1624). Sweden was only able to involve itself because France mediated a truce/treaty between Gustav...
It's very hard to compare the situations. Leopold I ignored pretty much everyone's advice about allowing Prussia to be elevated to a kingdom. but it was either that or forking over the Piast inheritance in Silesia. Saxony-Poland is a matter of "no good options". The alternative was to have a...
The kingdom of Italy wasn't a subsidiary title. It was an independent state that functioned in personal union with the Napoléonic Empire. Per the founding statutes, the kingdom was to part ways with the French empire when Napoléon died- passing to either his second son or (if he didn't have...
agreed. Especially given that this is...oh...the future queen of England? Victoria's whole unmarried period lasted all of three years. While I could see a "near miss" the first time around (à la Princess Margaret with Peter), they're not going to risk a second one
uh...why- better still how- given female education of the period (compare what the Queen Mother had, for instance)- would any daughter of George V and Queen Mary turn out like Edward VIII?
it would depend. OTL they made restitution to Karl Ludwig. TTL, Ferdinand III might settle the Palatinate on Karl Ludwig instead of inviting a foreign king to own land inside the empire (we're not talking about the lands that France and Sweden claimed for their own). He certainly won't allow a...
Joseph got the Neapolitan throne because he declined the Italian one, if he's king of Italy (he has no option to refuse TTL), then he never goes to Naples.
@isabella can correct me but the presence of sons for Napoléon shakes up the whole line-up of the Bonaparte marriages:
Hortense will not...
firstly, it's cute that you think Alexandra would be allowed to remain single until 1931 (when Blobel joined the Nazi party). She's the heiress to the British throne, she's marrying in the 1910s- 1920 is the latest. So unless she meets Blobel before then- in which case he won't become a Nazi...
if things go as OTL, the boy will be heir to the kingdom of Italy. Even if Joseph accepts the offer of the Italian throne- he refused OTL because he hoped to be Napoléon's heir in France- Joseph has no son. But given that both his daughters married cousins OTL, I could see him pushing for a...