naples

How realistic would a restoration of the Kingdom of Naples or Two Sicilies be in a CP victory? Maria Sophie of Bavaria, the wife of Francis II, presided over an informal Bourbon court-in-exile and supported the Central Powers in the hope that they would restore the Kingdom of Naples upon an...

Without Caroberto ascending to the Hungarian throne, who would become the King of Naples after Charles II's died? Would it be his eldest living son Robert as in OTL, or would it be Caroberto, the son of the eldest son of Charles II? What could be the further implications of this sceniario?

IOTL, the Expedition of The Thousand, spearheaded by Giuseppe Garibaldi, was a splendid success, despite the military superiority of the Two Sicilies' royalist armies. It could be said that Garibaldi's expedition was a risky gamble, and historians often compare it to Che and Castro's march...

In the 200 years they ruled (1589-1789), the Bourbons turned France from, (as one of Richelieu’s biographers put it) the toy of jumped-up lackeys and chambermaids to the premier power of Europe. By contrast, the Valois (in particular from Charles VIII to Henri III) nursed imperial ambitions...

OTL The Dukes of Burgundy inherited Flanders and aimed at kingship through a new Lotharingia. But what if they had no claim to Flanders but one to Provence and Naples instead? Would the aim now be a resurrection of Royal Burgundy? What interesting butterflies could we get?

During the 1390s and 1410s the Capetian house of Anjou went extinct as one by one its heads died without surviving heirs: First was Marie d'Anjou, Queen of Hungary and Croatia, who in 1395 gave birth to a premature son by her husband, Sigmund of Luxemburg. Both she and the child died. Next...