TBH, Napoléon wasn't exactly showing himself as being patient for those subsidies. Given that France was slapped with a massive war indemnity (that IIRC took until 1820 to pay off). One would think that he of all people would understand that the state paying that indemnity took precedence over...
will admit that I'm unfamiliar with what he actually did while on Elba. Most biographies give it- at best- a few lines, with no descriptions of how or what he did there/what they thought of him etc.
maybe he can fulfil his longstanding ambition and go to Greece?
seemingly it was "ruminating" as early as September 1814, when Murat was forced to withdraw his representative to Elba or face retaliation. The same month, Metternich informed Elisa that she wasn't going to be allowed to keep even Lucca. Combined with the king of Württemberg's refusal to allow...
given that he remarked- OTL- that he would rather see his son dead than raised as an Austrian archduke- he might regard this (his son at least staying in France, for now) as "oddly preferable" to being effectively exiled. Especially given the fact that the Bourbons are currently without an heir...
Soundtrack: Rossini - Overture to Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghelterra [1]
*Portoferraio* *in a study* *Napoléon is eating when his secretary, Méneval arrives with the mail*
Napoléon: *mouth half full of chicken* what news have we from Europe, Méneval? *wipes fingers on napkin*
Méneval: it seems...
again, from the aforementioned convo, just have the duc de Bourgogne (Louis XVI's brother) survive. The duc de Luynes had done a handshake deal with Mme de Pompadour that he would be appointed the boy's tutor/governor. Luynes was a majority shareholder in the Montréalais coal mines in the South...
I discussed this with @VVD0D95 a few years ago that "basically" the way to "ensure" this is to kill Friedrich Christian of Saxony in infancy. His mom wanted him to either abdicate his rights to the throne (and retire to a monastery) or only inherit Saxony, leaving Poland to her "favourite"...
Given Cockerill and Biolleys were both involved in "Belgium" and the adjacent Rhinelandindustrializing OTL. Ghent (I think Marx was the one who called it Belgium's Manchester) already having factories with prototypes of mechanized looms as early as shortly after the Peace of Utrecht. The prince...
I meant Henry VIII-Jane Seymour the Elder
the privy council? The only one calling for Brandon's head on a stick was Norfolk. Who was pissy that a "jumped up dog" married a king's daughter. Until the duchess of Norfolk reminded him that "you did the same" (referencing his late wife, Anne of...
yes and no. Yes, they are 'separatist' but it's hardly as though Belgium has been a model state in that regard. And no, the 1830 revolution was a sort of perfect storm of factors. First the bad harvests of the 1820s, the fact that the British were artificially maintaining the high prices of...
I know that. But Jane Seymour isn't getting near the royal bed. Henry remarries here, it'll be to a princess
because those are the only second tier princesses available? Suzanne de Bourbon-Montpensier, Anne/Catherine de Laval, Susanne of Bavaria, Isabella of Naples (b.1499/1500), Beatriz of...
given that Léopold himself refused the crown of Greece when he heard the conditions, I suspect he'd turn it down TTL as well (so much the better IMO)
not really, but they did try to get Willem II onside as a sort of "patron" for first their Natal Colony and then their Orange River Colony ...