Search results

Maybe a crack team of French musketeers sent by the exiled Queen of England smuggle him out on a pinnace after disguising him as a peasant?

Maybe you could get a movie catching the attention of a very renowned writer, or at least a successful one (not the same thing!), so much that they approach the movie director with the idea of a novel adaptation. When the book is successful another successful author follows the lead. This...

I agree with most of the posters here that it's very, very difficult. If Eugene jumps ship with his Bavarian in-laws, as suggested many times here, then maybe one thing that can happen is that a Kingdom of Italy could be formed with similar borders to OTL Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, with the...

That would be a fascinating Presidential election, there's no doubt! What PODs could make it happen? The PODs, I am sure, would also determine the winner, but off the top of my head I'd give the nod to LBJ.

A rough idea for a possible timeline: Italy loses the war with the Ottoman Empire in 1911, and doesn't acquire Lybia as a colony. After the earlier defeat in Ethiopia, this prompts the Italian government to concentrate on Eritrea and abandon further colonial conquests. It also prompts very...

Italy keeping Lybia has been discussed quite a few times, but what about Eritrea? As per the title, with a POD after Mussolini's rise to power, can Italy keep Eritrea - or part of it - permanently? Or at least longer than it did in OTL? First thing that comes into my mind is of course Italy...

Not an expert, but maybe Haile Selassie decides not to dissolve federation with Eritrea? And passes away earlier? No idea what would happen afterwards, I expect you'd still get a strong chance of a coup.

... and since he started going by 'James'. He can get quite testy, our Jim, if you call him the way his fans have been calling him for decades. I

I suppose Poland's chances would be greatly improved if the Soviet Union decides not to jump in. Maybe a different Soviet leader decides to stick to benevolent neutrality? Also, and correct me if I'm wrong, I believe the Polish plan included trying to invade the Prussian exclave - maybe the...

True, but in this scenario there's no chance of getting king Henry to marry her at all. Could she decide to lower her expectations, maybe, and go for the mistress role?

There was a noticeable political movement in Sicily for independence - the Movement for the Independence of Sicily. One of their leaders was Salvatore Giuliano, a bandit with a certain flair for PR. I think (not sure about that) he also advocated for Sicily to join the USA as the 51st state. If...

How about a longer lived Aurelian? Or a longer lived Gallienus, but you'd need him to be really different for that.

And by the way, there's something else I think figures in our imaginations, at least in some vague form. The Eastern Roman Empire was, very arguably I admit, the most likely candidate to be the equivalent of China in the Mediterranean - a long lived entity that goes through cycles of decay and...

If the Grisons manage to keep their hold on the Valtellina region, which was under their control since around the 18th century, then Switzerland might be able to incorporate it. In our timeline, it was separated by the French and transferred to the Cisalpine Republic in 1798. If that doesn't...

We have something about him from ancient historians, but my take is that we don't really know a lot about whether Marcellus was really competent enough to hold the Romans together. It also looks like Agrippa and Tiberius didn’t like him very much and felt threatened by his growing prestige. His...

Would it have made any difference if Alexios V, someone more active, and arguably (well, maybe) more competent, overthrew the Angeloi earlier? I'm under the impression that a major problem with the Romans was bad, bad leadership, and therefore low morale. Ol' Big Eyebrows was not the best...

Before the fall of the Western Empire, You might be able to get a crafty Sassanid emperor sending emissaries with gold to bribe the German tribes to attack Rome during a given time window, and sell it to them as an alliance of sorts. Afterwards, the Sassanids might get more of a consisten...

What if the Brits concentrate in one colony - say, Kenya - all of the settlers that in OTL went to the other African colonies? That would have two interesting side effects: South Africa would be Boer through and through, and (arguably) there would be no Rhodesia.

This one: Italy, a Destiny Fulfilled.

Italy could have remained a monarchy with relatively minor changes during or immediately after WW2. If it did, I expect it would have remained one up until the present day.