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I've tried to find some earlier threads about it, but as I didn't have many good results I've decided to make a new one. So, how could a Royalist victory (in the sense that Charles I not only keeps his throne but gains absolute power and Parliament's strenght is reduced) be achieved during the...

Just an idea I had while reading the other thread about Joseph's son surviving: WI Joseph I himself had died in 1701, leaving his brother Charles as the only heir of the Habsburgs? Would Philip of Anjou be much more easily accepted as the heir of Charles II of Spain, or a war would still happen...

So, IOTL Henry IV of Castile was believed to be impotent, as his two wifes couldn't get pregnant. When his second wife Joan of Portugal gave birth to his daughter Joanna La Beltraneja the nobilitybelieved that she was a bastard, and it sparked the conflict that would eventually lead to Isabella...

As says the title: Peter II of Russia, the grandson of Peter I, doesn't get smallpox and so doesn't die as a 14 years old in 1730, but instead he lives at least as long as his grandfather. How could his reign look like? And what would happen to Anna and Elizabeth?

Could Manfred have defeated Charles of Anjou and kept the throne of Sicily? And what the consequences? Would the Pope still declare someone else as the new Sicilian king? And what would do Conradin, let Sicily to his uncle and focus on Germany or invade it too and try to depose him?

As says the title. WI Mary of Burgundy had died in 22 July 1478, when she gave birth to Philip the Handsome? Assuming the baby also dies the same day, what would happen to the Burgundian Inheritance? Could Maximilian claim it as he was the husband of the former Duchess? Would the French annex...

Joseph I of Portugal didn't have male heirs, and in order to secure the throne of Portugal to his dynasty he arranged the marriage of his eldest daughter (Mary I) to his brother (Peter III), which happened in 1760. However, WI Peter had died before this marriage? There would be no Braganzas...

IOTL two of the main leaders of the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War died due to plane crashes: José Sanjurjo in 1936 and Emilio Mola in 1937. So, WI Franco has also died in an accident in 1937, after Mola? What would be the consequences for the war? And who could take his place? Would...

IOTL Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon had five children who survived to adulthood, four of them were daughters and just one a son (the unlucky John, Prince of Asturias). So, I was playing with this idea: WI the situation had been the inverse, and the couple has four sons and...

As the title says. How could we have England (or part of it) as a territory of the Carolingian Empire? You can use any POD from the Battle of Tours (732) to the election of Hugh Capet to the French throne (987). Sorry if it was already done, but I couldn't find any thread about it.

Inspired by the "No Miracle of Brandenbug thread": If Peter III had died before Elizabeth's death - let's say he suffers an accident in late 1761 - would Catherine be able to seize the throne for herself? Or would the young Paul be declared the new Tsar after Elizabeth, making Catherine only a...

As says the title. WI instead of dieing in 1542, when he was 30, James V had lived 20 or 30 years more? A possible butterfly, of course, is that maybe he could have had more sons with Mary of Guise, and so Mary couldn't be Queen of Scots. But, considering that he was a zealous Catholic, could he...

I was reading about the life of Jogaila, the first monarch of the union between Poland and Lithuania, and I noticed that the permanence of his dynasty in the Polish throne seems almost a good stroke of luck. From his first wife Jadwiga he had only one daughter who died just a month after her...

I've found some threads about a surviving Kalmar Union, but couldn't find any about the opposite idea: WI the union never happened? A possible POD is that Christopher, the eldest son of Valdemar IV, survives and have issue, or Margaret I is born a male. So, if Valdemar IV is succeeded by male...

Inspired by the ealier thread about Paul I of Russia not being assassinated I was reading the article about him on Wikipedia, and I've found this information: "...As a boy, he was reported to be intelligent and good-looking. His pug-nosed facial features in later life are attributed to an...

Inspired by the Yorkist/Lancastrian thread: IOTL Richard II married Anne of Bohemia in 1382. Their union lasted for 12 years, and the king genuinely loved her, but no children was born. However, before Anne, the most serious candidate to be Richard's wife was Caterina Visconti, who would bring...

WI Mary I had not died from cancer in 1558, but insted had lived at least as long as her father, dieing around 1570? What would happen to Elizabeth? Would Mary be more succesful in bringing England to Catholicism? And how would be her relationship to Mary of Scotland? I assuming that even...

Inspired by the recent threads about the Spanish Succession War: WI Charles II of Spain had died in February of 1685, almost at the same time that Charles II of England? More than the coincidence, I was wondering how England under James II would behave in the very likely war that would happen...

Just an idea: WI William II, Prince of Orange, doesn't die from smallpox in November 1650, but instead lives until his 60's, like his father (that means until 1686 at least)? How no Stadtholderless Period would affect the Netherlands?

Just a thought: if Mary II had died before the birth of the male heir of James II and Mary of Modena, how would it change the revolution against the king? Would the lack of his wife make it harder to William of Orange be declared king? Could he just surpass Anne's claim, or there would be more...