Tagging @LordKalvan since he seems to be this site's resident expert on everything involving Italy.
Charles Albert, king of Sardinia from 1831 to 1849, became known as the Hesitant King due to an inability shown throughout his life to decide to support absolutism or liberalism. After an initial liberal period, he became a reactionary only to later support the 1848 revolutions and start a war with Austria that led to his abdication.
In 1821, before becoming a conservative, he supported a conspiracy whose aim was to force the incumbent king Victor Emmanuel I to enact a liberal constitution similar to the Spanish one, which Ferdinand VII was forced to accept one year before. However, he betrayed his fellow conspirators, and even though there was an uprising in Turin that led to VE I's abdication, the throne was eventually occupied by the archconservative Charles Felix.
WI Charles Albert hadn't betrayed his colleagues, a decision that (apparently) completely derailed the revolution that was supposed to happen? Could he have become king ten years earlier tha he did IOTL and turn Sardinia-Piedmont into a constitutional monarchy as soon as he took power, or would he have been overthrown by an Austrian invasion similar to what the French did in Spain?
How could this have affected the Revolutions of 1848 in Italy?
Charles Albert, king of Sardinia from 1831 to 1849, became known as the Hesitant King due to an inability shown throughout his life to decide to support absolutism or liberalism. After an initial liberal period, he became a reactionary only to later support the 1848 revolutions and start a war with Austria that led to his abdication.
In 1821, before becoming a conservative, he supported a conspiracy whose aim was to force the incumbent king Victor Emmanuel I to enact a liberal constitution similar to the Spanish one, which Ferdinand VII was forced to accept one year before. However, he betrayed his fellow conspirators, and even though there was an uprising in Turin that led to VE I's abdication, the throne was eventually occupied by the archconservative Charles Felix.
WI Charles Albert hadn't betrayed his colleagues, a decision that (apparently) completely derailed the revolution that was supposed to happen? Could he have become king ten years earlier tha he did IOTL and turn Sardinia-Piedmont into a constitutional monarchy as soon as he took power, or would he have been overthrown by an Austrian invasion similar to what the French did in Spain?
How could this have affected the Revolutions of 1848 in Italy?
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