royal family

What are some other names the British royals could have adopted, in lieu of Windsor? Some names that come to me are; House Balmoral House Buckingham House Wessex House Pendragon House Albion

Your challenge is to have the modern British Royal Family be as large as possible (while still being realistic) - I will draw a blurry line that to be considered 'the family' they have to be Elizabeth's descendants, though I'm not completely opposed to including Margaret's line. Here is my...

What would change if William and Harry (in this world named Elizabeth and Charlotte) were born female? How would the inner workings of the royal family change? It is known Charles wanted a daughter more than a son, so would his relationship with his kids here be better? How would the Queen...

This is a weird question that I had, and might be too low-effort, but, here goes... I know that during WW1 and WW2, when rationing was introduced, the British Royal Family received ration cards, and followed rationing just like everyone else (nominally, at least, I've seen anecdotes about food...

What if the House of Li escaped to Japan and intermarried/merged with with the House of Yamato? How would this affect the history of East Asia and is it possible that this could lead to a Japanese conquest of Korea and China?

I have seen threads positing their having children when they were both young to stir controversy either with the Queen or Diana, but what if they did so after their real world marriage? Say after their engagement announcement in February 2005, the two use their considerable resources to source...

I came across a book titled "Ever the Diplomat: Confessions of a Foreign Office Mandarin" written by Sherard Cowper-Coles and printed in 2012. He had been the British ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Israel and Afghanistan in the 2000s, and most relevant to this discussion, the head of the Hong Kong...

I've been wondering what would it look like had if the Imperial House of Japan (or House of Yamato) - especially its family, kazoku and noble laws had left mostly untouched after WW2. This could apply to OTL without much change to everything else in TTL, to ATL where Japan conditional surrender...

What would happen if an Islamic terrorist attack on Buckingham Palace (or another royal residence) occurred, killing several royals. Would the Queen be killed, who would be monarch as a result of this and how would Britain fare politically.

In the long history, there were various Royal Houses or Imperial Dynasties that were overthrown or replaced by another House (Usually due to marriable ties). Some survived to this day, or some like the Chinese Dynasties has descendants with the Imperial Surname. However, there were those who...

I have recently watched a PATHE documentary about Princess Margaret turning 21 and the narrator said that Princess Margaret was born with disappointment as everybody expected a Prince, the country needs a Prince. I have watched a few tabloids said that before The Queen and Princess Margaret,The...

You could write a book on what a Greek victory would've meant for Europe, you could even write a book on why a Greek victory was impossible, but those aren't the subjects I want to discuss. If Greece had won the Greek monarchy wouldn't have been abolished. That means that Prince Andrew never...

Okay, so I'm sure that most of you are familiar with Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg, where, after a syndicalist revolution breaks out in Britain due in part to their defeat in the Great War, the British government and the royal family fled to Canada. This scenario... isn't Kaiserreich. It...

I've been reading about the importance of Britain's support for the maintenance of the Portuguese monarchy, and I wonder what could have happened if Princess Victoria of Wales married King Charles I of Portugal? In the 1880s, Carlos' mother wanted her son to marry Toria, Maria Valeria of...

King Ralph is a movie released in 1991 based on the novel Headlong by Emlyn Williams. On the surface it's a standard 90's fish out of water comedy but definitely falls in the category of alternate history as well. In it Finland is depicted as having a Royal Family and a nation state called...

In 1878, Diptheria swept over the Hessian court at Darmstadt, ultimately killing Grand Duchess Alice and her youngest child Princess Marie. IOTL these deaths permanently affected the second youngest Hessian princess, Alix, whose morose personality would become infamous during the twilight of...

While William IV of the UK had several illegitimate children with his mistress Dorothea Jordan, none of his legitimate children with Queen Adelaide survived childhood. The question is how would history have been affected if four of theses children survived. There would be not Victoria and...

After the death of Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales in 1817 the sons of George III rushed to get married and produce an heir for Britain. Of course we all know the winner was the future William IV, who welcomed daughter Elizabeth in 1820. Elizabeth, known as the mother-in-law of Europe (both...

Hey guys, this is my first thread and I'm unsure if this is the correct subform, but I recently was thinking of this question and I wanted to see if anyone had any thoughts. Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, famously had 5 children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and hemophiliac Alexei...

What's the best PoD out there for both the Habsburg and Bourbon royal houses (and the countries they control) to become allies, with the condition that it lasts past a single major war? Is such an alliance feasible in the long term? Would the 18th century be the most likely context for this...