I’m playing around with a 19th century Scandinavia scenario, which may or may not include the house of Augustenburg gaining the Swedish throne - and possibly the Norwegian and Danish ones down the line as well. This would of course exclude the Glücksburg line from succession.
Now in otl, Christian IX sought Queen Victoria’s hand over a decade before he became the heir to Denmark. The two became on quite good terms with each other, but I don’t know if he ever stood a chance as a potential groom - though I’m sure our resident Victorian-experts do.
In either case, in a scenario where Christian doesn’t end up a King but as consort to the British monarch, this could have some interesting effects on the situation in Schleswig in the mid 19th century. When it came to resolving the situation, and international solution was attempted several times with lackluster results. A big issue was supposedly that people not directly involved generally didn’t have a very good understanding of the situation.
Lord Palmerston famously said about the situation: "Only three people have ever really understood the Schleswig-Holstein business – the Prince Consort, who is dead – a German professor, who has gone mad – and I, who have forgotten all about it."
Now if he attributed this rare understanding to the departed Prince Albert, it’s interesting to speculate on what an alive consort who had an even more personal connection to the situation could have done about it. Christian would have been a natural mediator of the situation and may have been able to find a more sustainable situation than the otl London protocole - which left no involved part satisfied and paved the way for the second Schleswig war a little over a decade later.
Now in otl, Christian IX sought Queen Victoria’s hand over a decade before he became the heir to Denmark. The two became on quite good terms with each other, but I don’t know if he ever stood a chance as a potential groom - though I’m sure our resident Victorian-experts do.
In either case, in a scenario where Christian doesn’t end up a King but as consort to the British monarch, this could have some interesting effects on the situation in Schleswig in the mid 19th century. When it came to resolving the situation, and international solution was attempted several times with lackluster results. A big issue was supposedly that people not directly involved generally didn’t have a very good understanding of the situation.
Lord Palmerston famously said about the situation: "Only three people have ever really understood the Schleswig-Holstein business – the Prince Consort, who is dead – a German professor, who has gone mad – and I, who have forgotten all about it."
Now if he attributed this rare understanding to the departed Prince Albert, it’s interesting to speculate on what an alive consort who had an even more personal connection to the situation could have done about it. Christian would have been a natural mediator of the situation and may have been able to find a more sustainable situation than the otl London protocole - which left no involved part satisfied and paved the way for the second Schleswig war a little over a decade later.