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Charles really dosnt have much chance to do anything in late 1648, he's proved to be utterly untrustworthy to just about every faction in play. I think that the best thing that could have happened (For England and the Monarachy if not Charles) would have been Charles's death in battle by a stray...

Salic law enshrined in french costumary law for centuries would indeed be hard to bypass under normal circumstances. At this time in OTL the King who was argueably more enshrined in French costumary law was dethroned and executed. Revolutionary fevor was making all kinds of stuff possible...

Marie-Antoinette is sent into exile in the Austrian Netherlands in 1791 for her own safety as much as anything else. Louis XVI now completly lacking support and resolution bows to the will of the French Revolution and the pace of reform stabilizes. Louis-Charles the Dauphin dies in 1795 of TB...

Charles III reigned (1766-1776) Charles III was born Charles Edward James Stuart in 1722 in Dublin Castle, the first Stuart monarch born in Ireland, the eldest son of James III and Charlotte-Aglae of Orleans. Charles was raised with his brother and sisters in a cosy family environment, in which...

James III reigned (1701-1766) James was born in London in 1688, his birth and the rumours surrounding his substitution with a changeling; precipitated the Revolution of 1688 forcing his father to flee his British thrones. James however grew up entirely in Ireland and spoke Irish fluently; he...

James II reigned (1685-1701) James’s victory at the Battle of the Boyne was not guaranteed. William’s army had been hardened by the various wars with Louis XIV’s militant France and James’s army was largely untested but numerically superior. James‘s army routed the Williamite army and forced...

James II flees from England and the Gloriuos Revolution ensues. At the crucial Battle of the Boyne James II dosn't lose his nerve and the Hiberno-French forces crush the Dutch-English forces. William III survives and reigns as co-monarch in Britain, James II cannot regain Britain due to lack of...

Well Maria-Theresa at least wanted to name all her daughters Maria something in honour of the House of Habsburgs veneration of the Virgin Mary. Most of the girls were known by their second name or a nickname. Of Maria-Theresa's daughters; Marie-Antoinette was 'Antoine', Maria-Carolina...

In 1767 smallpox struck the House of Austria, killing Maria-Theresa's daughter Maria-Josefa about to leave to become Queen of Naples, daughter in law Maria-Isabella of Parma Queen of the Romans and scarring Archduchess Maria-Elisabeth. Thus her Heir became a widower and she was down two...

Dynastic solution When Charles III took Naples and Sicily from Austria during the War of Polish Succession, he could have feasibly pressed his claim to be the rightful heir to the Tuscan throne, his mother was the senior heir to Gian Gastone the last Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany, through her...